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“At some point, probably during your second year, you’ll realize the trust you feel for your friends and family has nothing on the loyalty you develop for your squad.”

“ Ugh. Let’s go throw knives at shit.”

“Dragons do not answer to the whims of men.”

“My only advice? Don’t piss off anyone else’s dragon”

“Last year, I might have accepted death. But this year…this year, I’m bonded to one of the deadliest dragons on the Continent.”

“ This is where I want to live, where nothing else matters but the way he makes me feel.”

“Dragons don’t take orders from humans.”

“It is terrifying now, but tonight I recognize fear and excitement as two names for the same sensation.”

“It is too much to look at suffering directly. We can only survive if we close our eyes; reality is not a thing to be experienced raw.”

“It is over. Whatever scaffolding I have constructed to hold my life up cannot disguise that I lie in ruins.”

“I mourn for the shallow grave of my dead life.”

“She takes the wind from me in one breath.”

“I’m not good company at present.”

There are footsteps slowly circling the room.

“You think you must be good company for someone to come to your side?”

“I am tired. I cannot hold myself together every moment of the day. It is untenable. There are too many people here, worrying at the mortar of my boundaries, wearing me thin.”

“Disappointment tells us what we truly wanted. And to want is to be alive.”

“I am fine. I have to be. I have no time for weakness.”

“I was alone, as in all things. I learned: learned, then, that mastery is the gift that befalls the isolated and unhappy. There was no help forthcoming, so I learned to take complete and total control myself.”

“He smiled. “I wonder what it would take to make you care as much for a human being as you do that dog.”
“Unswerving loyalty, courage, humor, companionship, intelligence, and the willingness to give his life for me.”

“I know someone who might be able to help me.”
“The right person for the right job?” “Exactly.”
“Then God help him.”
“It’s not a man.” Logan glanced back over his shoulder at the ruins. “It’s a woman.”

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I cannot believe that just happened! 😮

“It is one thing to cross the parapet your first year. But watching countless candidates lose their life to it feels a little like dying, too. Don’t watch if you can help it.”

“And that’s not going to work for me. Not this time. I can’t trust you again without full disclosure. Period.”

“The deep timbre of Xaden’s voice makes my pulse skip like always.”

“He laughs. “I now realize what’s wrong with your generation. You don’t take chances. You’re always on your smartphones and with your texting and your swiping and your online dating, and you don’t show up in person when it’s needed! I am going to woo her and wow her—”

“I stare at him helplessly. I know exactly nothing about dogs except that they are dirty and they like to eat things, particularly human shoes. This one is a medium-sized brown-and-white one with floppy ears and big brown eyes, and when I open the front door, he bounds inside like he knows where the bones are hidden.”

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“Annie was not going to panic because Annie was a competent and successful businesswoman perfectly capable of balancing her bakery and her friendships and her need to be perfect.”

“Memories and feelings coexist in a close relationship, they’ll lie to you if it means they can stay together.”