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‘I had wanted to be free from everyone who tries to use me—and now I was. I was no longer anyone’s daughter; prize, sacrifice. Perhaps I was still a vessel, of sorts. But this time, I had chosen to be.’

‘I wanted it to go on forever.
So I ended it.’

“If power is a precious stone, then affinities are more like these little blooms; fragrant and lovely for a day, then fading into nothing.” –Priest

‘It seemed so wrong that I could feel so broken inside and look so unchanged.’

‘Curiosity, my mother said, was only profitable for the highly educated.’

“Magic, And coin. The two most powerful forces in the kingdom.” –Mieka

‘Names have a kind of magic.’

‘A child can be a boon, a blessing, a burden—or all three at once.’

“When a grief is this large, this unwieldy,
The sea is the only place where it will fit”
—Andrea Eames (the author)