“You are cruel, Elias,” she whispers against my mouth. “To give a girl all she desires only to tear it away.”
“This isn't the end for us, Laia of Serra.” I cannot give up what we could have. I don't care what bleeding vow I made. “Do you hear me? This is not our end.”
“You've never been a liar.” She dashes her hands against the wetness in her eyes. “Don't start now.”
― A Reaper at the Gates
“This isn't the end for us, Laia of Serra.” I cannot give up what we could have. I don't care what bleeding vow I made. “Do you hear me? This is not our end.”
“You've never been a liar.” She dashes her hands against the wetness in her eyes. “Don't start now.”
― A Reaper at the Gates
“But I must prepare myself, for such stories are dragons drawn from a deep well in a dark place. Does one summon a dragon? No. One may only invite it and hope it emerges.”
― A Reaper at the Gates
― A Reaper at the Gates
“You cannot walk in the shadows as long as I have and not become one.”
― A Reaper at the Gates
― A Reaper at the Gates
“Hope is stronger than fear. It is stronger than hate.”
― A Reaper at the Gates
― A Reaper at the Gates
“My song is not one of peace. It is one of failure and pain. My song is one of battle and blood, death and power. It is not the song of Helene Aquilla. It is the song of the Blood Shrike.”
― A Reaper at the Gates
― A Reaper at the Gates
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