“There will always be a they in your new life, Meira. They make decisions; they mold your future. The trick is to find a way to still be you through it all.” “Are”
― Snow Like Ashes
― Snow Like Ashes
“No matter what I want to do, no matter how well I lead or how hard I train, I won’t be able to force life into frozen fields, or cure plagues, or feed strength into soldiers like I would if I could use the conduit. The Winterians would probably rather have a cruel queen than a king with good intentions, because with a queen they at least have a chance that the magic can be used for them. It doesn’t matter what I would do with magic, because leaders are valued for the wrong things.”
― Snow Like Ashes
― Snow Like Ashes
“Leaders are valued for the wrong things”
― Snow Like Ashes
― Snow Like Ashes
“I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.”
― Snow Like Ashes
― Snow Like Ashes
“...As if it’s all so easy. If it’s so easy, why don’t we talk about it more?”
“It hurts too much,” Mather says. Just that simple.
That makes me stop. I meet his eyes, a long, careful gaze. “Someday it won’t hurt.”
The promise we refugees always make one another— We’ll be better . . . someday.”
― Snow Like Ashes
“It hurts too much,” Mather says. Just that simple.
That makes me stop. I meet his eyes, a long, careful gaze. “Someday it won’t hurt.”
The promise we refugees always make one another— We’ll be better . . . someday.”
― Snow Like Ashes
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