Lynette Noni > Quotes

“I’m s-sorry!” he cried, tilting his tearstained face back to look at her through watery blue eyes. “I’m s-s-so sorry! J-Jaren said I should f-forgive you, that you d-didn’t have a choice and you o-only lied to protect me, but I was j-just so mad! And you n-nearly drowned thinking I h-hate you! I d-don’t! I don’t hate you, K-Kiva! I couldn’t n-never hate you! I l-love you! Please b-believe me!”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Kiva closed her eyes at the memory. She had made her choice then. And she had to stick with it.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“I’ve never met anyone who shines as brightly as you do.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“But you have to know kitten, I would do it all over again for a thousand lifetimes if it meant the privilege of knowing you.”
― Lynette Noni

“Caldon might have been an incorrigible flirt, but something Kiva had learned in the last six weeks was that he wasn’t a spoiled prince who sat around playing courtier all day—even if, for reasons she’d yet to uncover, he made it so people believed that was true.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“Give ’im a good life, yeah? Yeh both deserve to find ’appiness.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“There was so much Kiva wanted — but mostly”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“It was only when she’d cried her last that sleep finally found her”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“No one loathed Kiva more than she did herself,”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“Sometimes the people who act like they don’t care are really the ones who care the most. They feel so much that it overwhelms them, and to keep from falling apart, they hide behind easy smiles and quick laughter, acting like nothing matters.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“And I may have told him that no matter how hard you made him work for it, it’d be worth it in the end.”
― Lynette Noni, Vardaesia

“We don’t need to be making enemies of allies. Even when those allies are acting like enemies.”
― Lynette Noni, Weapon

“Know this: the battle within is often greater than the battle without. Much of this war will be fought amongst those claiming to be friends, with words rather than swords. Do not let the politics discourage you, and never forget who you are truly fighting – and what you are fighting for.”
― Lynette Noni

“You’re a good friend, Cresta. I’m sorry you lost your family, but I’m glad you’re a part of ours now.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Jaren was allocated work in the tunnels. It was Tipp who told Kiva; Tipp who had left the infirmary in a hurry upon Kiva’s return that night, hastening back to their shared cell block to make sure Jaren snagged a pallet next to his; Tipp who had whispered Zalindov’s secrets to the newcomer, all the warnings and hints that Kiva had failed to offer.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“She didn’t even care that he and Galdric were smiling at each other, not as a king and his once-prisoner, but in a way that told her they weren’t enemies at all — and perhaps never had been.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“What did your brother and sister—the Viper and the Jackal—want?”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“Life is worth living, even the parts that make us feel like we want to die. That’s something I’ve learned in the last five years.” She hesitated, then added, “I know I’ve never said it before, but thank you. I wouldn’t be alive today without you.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“The last thing I want is to make her feel like she’s trapped in another kind of cage.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“Part of her was furious with him as they stepped into the small”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“And so, the healer and the guard worked side by side into the night, the balance of power between them blurring—and perhaps, as Kiva was beginning to realize, fading entirely.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“You’ve got time — just not much.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“I was angry,” Jaren said, still quietly. “I was hurt. And you were the easiest person for me to take that out on. That was wrong of me, and I’m sorry.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“No, dear, you don’t understand,” Olisha said impatiently. She held Kiva’s eyes as she explained, “Tilda’s awake—and she’s lucid.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“I know this place,” Ashlyn said with disbelief. “That’s Sudbury. Stoneforge is barely two miles from here.” She stared at Galdric’s prone body. “That must have been why he asked where I was planning to take us — so he could bring us here himself.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“I was never angry that you lied to me,” Jaren said softly. “I was angry because you didn’t trust me enough to tell me the truth.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“morning,” Healer Maddis said, her crisp voice enunciating every word”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“crying had left her purged and partially numb, which was preferable to the alternative.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“I then had to make the same choice: to fight, and to keep fighting, day after day. And that’s hard. It’s exhausting and it’s painful and it hurts. But I eventually realized that it’s also a part of life, and it will all be worth it one day. I have to believe that — for me,”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“needing to protect herself from the dangerous hope unfurling within her”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor