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“Never trust Rahtan bearing gifts,” I warned. “What you don’t know can get you into trouble, Patrei.”
“But trouble is what we do best together.” He gathered me into his arms, his eyes dancing with light, but then his playful expression turned serious. “Are you sorry?”
I felt myself falling deeper into the world that was Jase Ballenger. “Never. Not through a thousand tomorrows could I ever be sorry. Trouble with you makes me glad for it. I love you with every breath I will ever breathe. I love you, Jase.”
“More than an orange?” he asked between kisses.
“Let’s not get carried away, Patrei.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves

“Better to be in the forest, I thought. Where the dreams were shrouded in fog and cold and the group knew its order and stride by the weight of our want.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“Josephine had never encountered or faced an opponent so dispersed. Instead of a single king or emperor, there were thousands of little lords who employed ruthless agents to pit one race against the other.”
― Fulvia Ferrari, Secolo Nuovo

“But for now, like always, we couldn't sit around on the couches and contemplate our world and what might lie ahead. We were outside, getting ready.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves