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“And then he said, after a moment, “I just played the notes that sounded like you.” I stiffened. He spoke the words so softly, with such tender vulnerability. Like a confession to a priest. So kind it hurt. Danger, Mische. Danger. This is not what you’re supposed to do. But still, I didn’t pull away. I murmured, “It’s beautiful.” And he whispered, “Yes.”
― The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
― The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
“I love you. I fell in love with you in the depths of my soul, and it’s my soul that will find yours again in the next life.”
― House of Flame and Shadow
― House of Flame and Shadow
“The gods know what would happen if all us females were unsupervised. Absolute anarchy. Cities would crumble.”
― House of Flame and Shadow
― House of Flame and Shadow
“Are you saying that the couple who commits homicide together, stays together?” He snorted. “Too wordy. I prefer the couple who slays together, stays together.”
― Lights Out
― Lights Out
“If I were the god of the sun, I would have given her endless dawns and warm hearths. If I were the god of the sea, I would have given her cool rains on hot nights and currents that always brought her home. If I were the god of vitality, I would have given her sweet fruit and spring flowers. I would have given her anything, everything, because that was what she deserved—every single thing she had loved, fully and completely, about mortality. But I am not the god of any of those things. I have only one gift to lay at her feet. And so, I wait.”
― The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
― The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
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