Zoe Fish

“I have a gift for persuasion. I once talked a tree out of its leaves.” “Nonsense.” “Well, it was autumn. I can’t take full credit.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“You will invite me to a fine dinner. We’ll both drink too much wine. You’ll get me to talk about myself, the pressures of my position, the sadness of my past. Perhaps I’ll shed a tear or two. You’ll listen sensitively and astutely and somehow discover my secret self. Something like that?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“You would make a sheltering place for my people. You would march and bleed and crack terrible jokes until you had done all you said you would. I suppose that's why I love you.'
'All Saints, say it again.'
'I will not.'
'You must.'
'I'm the queen. I must do nothing but please myself.'
'Would it please to kiss me?'
It would. And she did.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“There will be no redemption for you,” Genya said. “The woman I am can forgive you for the punishment you dealt me. But for the sake of the child I was, there is no penance you can perform, no apology you can speak that will make me open my heart to you.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves