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What would our enemies say if they knew we’d all been petrified of a girl?”
Fuck this guy
She became all too aware of the three long scars down her back. Even if she won her freedom … even if she lived in peace in the countryside … those scars would always remind her of what she’d endured. And that even if she was free, others were not.
Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.
Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
“Now, most of the books we receive are from Adarlan—books in a language I can barely understand. That’s also what I must learn while I’m here. There are so many things!”
“Well,” he said, trying not to get lost in her strange, lovely eyes, “I don’t think anyone who plays like that can be just a criminal. It seems like you have a soul,” he teased.
“Arobynn told me that second place was just a nice title for the first loser.”
Abby Lee Miller ?
“I like music,” she said slowly, “because when I hear it, I … I lose myself within myself, if that makes sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play, I’m not … for once, I’m not destroying. I’m creating.”
Marriage doesn’t mean you can’t love other people.”
“What’s the point in having a mind if you don’t use it to make judgments?” “What’s the point in having a heart if you don’t use it to spare others from the harsh judgments of your mind?”
“What is the point in being a princess of Eyllwe if I cannot help my people?” Nehemia said. “How can I call myself their princess, when such things happen?”
an eye and frowned as Dorian sat on her bed. “I’m in a state of absolute agony and I can’t be bothered.” “It can’t be that bad,” he said, fishing a deck of cards from his jacket. “Want to play?” “I already told you that I don’t feel well.” “You look fine to me.” He skillfully shuffled the deck.
Okay this pissed me off
She clutched her belly and bent over. Sometimes she hated being a woman.
“Say it.” “Say what?” “Say my name.
“We all bear scars, Dorian. Mine just happen to be more visible than most.
Her past and future were seated on a glass throne.
