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It only takes a single night of frost to kill off a generation. To live, then, is a matter of time, of timing.
“I see myself for what I am: a scared girl, alone in a cruel world, abandoned by family and friend, who would rather turn herself to bloodstained stone than let anyone get close enough to leave another scar.
A girl who would rather die than serve anyone ever again. Even myself.”
― Little Thieves
A girl who would rather die than serve anyone ever again. Even myself.”
― Little Thieves
“I should have spent more time thinking about your life than worrying about your death.”
― A Spindle Splintered
― A Spindle Splintered
“I've read fairy tales, of course, and listened to plaintive love songs, but I never understood why anyone would wake up after a hundred years and marry the prince who broke into their bedroom for a kiss. Or dance with a stranger once and decide to spend the rest of their lives together. I always felt a baffled kind of melancholy when others raptured over love at first sight, like maybe something was wrong with me, maybe I didn't know how to love someone at all.
I didn't know it wasn't just me.”
― Little Thieves
I didn't know it wasn't just me.”
― Little Thieves
“In the world I knew, there were three reasons a person could be wanted: for profit, pleasure, or power. If you could satisfy only one, they used you. Two, they saw you. Three, they served you.”
― Little Thieves
― Little Thieves
“It wasn’t fair that Jovis should have the love and adoration of the Empire’s people, and I had to fight for even a modicum of respect.”
― The Bone Shard Emperor
― The Bone Shard Emperor
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