Every time Gideon looked at the young heiress, she reminded him of the sea: steal-your-breath beautiful on the surface, with the promise of untold depths beneath.
“How useless are guns against those who are fearless. How foolish, to set force against innocence. Their own strength made them small.”
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“How many mothers have prayed to see their sons, their daughters return from war only to realize the war has kept them, the world has poisoned them, and they’ll never be the same? For”
― Morning Star
― Morning Star
“they talked, too, of their futures, as if they could shape the glittering course of their destinies with secret confessions offered like prayers to the room’s benevolent hush.”
― The Diviners
― The Diviners
“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“What is love but a pain we choose?”
― The Swan Riders
― The Swan Riders
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