Alanna Thornton’s Reviews > A Treachery of Swans > Status Update

“I hope this book's ending makes up for all the emotional damage I caused with Where the Dark Stands Still. Sorry about that, by the way.”

Wow. That was beautiful. Almost made up for it <\3

Yeah Aimé!!!

“Tomorrow I will tell my last lie. It will be my greatest performance, my grand finale, my swan song. After that I will leave behind this life of treacheries and masks and schemes.”

"Hey," I say in annoyance, feeling my own eyes begin to sting.
"Stop that right now. Because if you cry, I might cry, and Aimé is already about to cry, and then we'll be a whole pathetic circle of tears and Marie will have to try to save the world on her own." Behind me, Marie tries to muffle a sniff, and I groan.
"Never mind, we're doomed."

“I am made of echoes, of afterimages, and they all belong to her.” <3

“Why should I fight to save someone who never even gave me a chance?
Vile, vindictive, villain.
The words that have become my anthem, my obituary. But did I not want to be the villain of this tale? Had I not been proud of that, once upon a time?
Villains are pitiless. Villains are unfeeling. Villains can't be hurt.
And I am so tired of being hurt.”

Super uh oh

Uh oh

"You think all you have to do is say 'please' and 'thank you,' and the world will bow to your wishes. The Swan Princess," I sneer. "You'll learn eventually, as I did. You can't save everyone."

“I obeyed her, because I always did what she said. She had a warmth, a light, that drew me into her orbit—I was a moth and she a flame, I the tides and she the moon. Whatever we were, she was always, always the light, and I the thing skulking in the dark.”