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“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

“Ready to go?” he asked.
I spun to face him, scrutinizing him from head to toe, and sighed. “Finally dressed, are you? Once I’ve settled in as magistrate, I’m going to have to rein you in, Patrei.”
“So today it’s magistrate? Yesterday you were Ambassador Brightmist.”
“The queen left the roles to my discretion, depending on how you behave.”
“Plan to arrest me?” he asked, a bit too eagerly.
I narrowed my eyes. “If you don’t toe the line.”
“If you weren’t so impatient, you wouldn’t be saddled with me now.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of 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

“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