Lynette Noni > Quotes

“No, not just poisoned. Executed. It was deliberate. And it came from the top. From Warden Rooke himself. Something like this went around years ago, soon after I first became the Warden. He was murdering prisoners now, just as he’d murdered them before. Nine years ago. Warden Rooke had killed her father.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“you’ll never, ever do it again.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“Not everything. Not always. Sometimes you’re better off letting them go.” His sister. Kiva had nearly forgotten. But she doubted Ashlyn Vallentis supported Caldon’s decision to avoid her for the last three years. “And sometimes you need to hold on tight,”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“I will always be with you, kitten. For as long as there are stars in the sky...”
― Lynette Noni, Graevale

“Torture”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“I know what it's like to have your family taken from you. To feel that emptiness--that *pain*--and fear it's never going to leave you.
I know how it feels to be left with nothing but darkness.
I know what it's like to become that darkness, how consuming it is. It's so much easier to hide in the night than to fight for the light.
I also know how tempting it is not to feel any of those things. To shut everyone out so you never have to experience that kind of agony again. I know, Cal. *I know*.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“Why are you helping me?” Kiva asked, the amulet all but burning beneath her blanket. “You said earlier that you don’t care what happens to me. I don’t—I don’t understand.” She swallowed, then made herself add, “If I live, so does Tilda. Why would you risk that?”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“The three of them had snuck out of the palace one night, having overheard a diplomat from Nerine talking about visiting a Red House before traveling back to his kingdom. In their innocence, they’d assumed he’d meant a literal red-colored house, and so they’d followed him to the docks. What they’d seen—”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“That was easy,” Jaren noted, sounding as relieved as she felt.
Even so, Kiva snorted. “Sure, if you forget the climb, the crevices, the multiple near-death experiences, and the storm — not to mention all the emotional drama.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“As if he couldn’t help himself, he leaned in and pressed a kiss to her temple—his unspoken gratitude for her not making a big deal out of what was most definitely a big deal.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“The Queen of Evalon was supposed to be haughty and cold, vicious and unforgiving. She was the face in Kiva’s nightmares, the person responsible for all of her family’s suffering.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“Darkness is everywhere, child. And where it is now, we have the unfortunate ability to imagine it so.”
― Lynette Noni, Graevale

“Trust is the first ingredient in a recipe for betrayal,”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“He just had a different kind of personality, prone to independence and solitude, rather than socializing just for the sake of fitting in. Too often people considered such a temperament to be strange or even rude, but Kiva saw it as a strength. Eidran knew who he was, and he embraced his autonomy with a contentment that she envied. It was effortless for her to sit with him in silence, the two of them lost in their thoughts, neither feeling the need to speak, just to be. She always left his presence more settled than when she arrived — and given how troubled she felt most of the time, that was a true gift.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“You don’t look nice.” He leaned in”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“That was when she knew — she must already be dreaming.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“You’re the one who wouldn’t look at me! You told me you wanted nothing to do with me — so I gave you that!” “I lied.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Mother is dead. I’m on my way to Vallenia. It’s time to reclaim our kingdom. And as Kiva combed her fingers through Tipp’s hair, the boy still fast asleep on her lap, she glanced up to meet Jaren’s blue-gold eyes once more, his gaze impossibly soft. She smiled shyly back, offering no indication as to who he was leading to his city . . . who he was welcoming into his home. Kiva Meridan. Born as Kiva Corentine. The Rebel Queen may have perished at Zalindov, but her daughter was alive and well, and free of Zalindov after ten long years. The Rebel Princess was finally ready to rise.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“I chose you, Jaren. I will always choose you. Because I love you, and I —”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“respuesta. —Puede que estemos atrapadas en el Abismo por ahora, pero de nosotras depende cómo sobrellevarlo. Podemos ver la oscuridad y dejar que nos consuma o podemos reconocer que solo es temporal y confiar en que, una vez pase, la luz regresará. Es una cuestión de actitud.”
― Lynette Noni, La traidora de Evalon

“Kiva pressed her lips together, irrationally annoyed that the cruel northern king looked like that.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Kiva shot a look at the princess. “You said it’s mostly men who it kills.”
Ashlyn shrugged. “I might have fibbed a little. It’s an equal-opportunity poison.” Her silvery eyes danced as she added, “If you’d died, at least you wouldn’t have had to marry Navok. I figured you’d be happy either way.”
Deadpan, Kiva said, “Please never try to help me again.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“You’re gorgeous Zander that's no secret. But I hope you know it goes beyond your looks. What's inside you here”, I press a finger to his chest, right over his heart, “is more beautiful than what's here”, i move my hand up to his cheek, offering the gentlest of touches before lowering my arm again, “and if I can see that after just a few short days, then anyone who can’t is an idiot”
― Lynette Noni, Wandering Wild

“That prayer halted on her tongue when she stepped into the common room”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“If things get heated”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“It’s believed that she’s Tilda Corentine,” the guard said. “The Rebel Queen.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“Another night in Zalindov”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“I know you’re scared”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“his,”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“It was better to lose her life by trying to save it, than to doom them all with her cowardly inaction.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer