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“I would sooner die tomorrow than live for a thousand years with a coward’s shame.”
“Because destroying a symbol can break the spirits of men as much as bloodshed.”
“You can hardly expect us to allow a nineteen-year-old assassin to parade into our kingdom and start yapping orders, regardless of her bloodline.”
“Your blood oath is stolen by a foreign prince, your queen is an assassin who appoints common whores to serve her, and yet you have nothing to say?”
“As of this moment, until it is otherwise decided, you shall remain a princess by blood—but not queen.”
We shall create wonders that will make the world tremble.
Then Manon Blackbeak whirled and brought Wind-Cleaver down upon her grandmother.
“They say she’s beautiful as sin—and colder than ice. They say she’s a tyrant, a coward, a whore. They say she’s gods-blessed—or gods-damned.
“The world will be saved by the warriors, by the men and women who will spill their blood for it. Not for empty promises and gilded dreams.”
“I would have fought for the rest of my life to find a way to return to you again. I knew it the moment you emerged from the Valg’s darkness and smiled at me through your flames.”
They could burn the entire world to ashes with it. He was hers and she was his, and they had found each other across centuries of bloodshed and loss, across oceans and kingdoms and war.
“you might not mind if we were discovered. If someone saw how thoroughly I plan to worship you.”
“I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you.”
“To whatever end,”
“If you want to survive, you have to be willing to do what is necessary.”
“I’d walk into the burning heart of hell itself to find you.”
“I’ll always find a way back to you.”
“It’s war. War is sanctioned murder, no matter what side you’re on.”
I would have followed that star to the ends of the earth, if she had let me.
“I am not mortal. I do not play by your rules. I have killed and hunted men for sport. Do not mistake me for a human woman, princeling.”
“I wanted to go to Perranth with you.”
“The fear of loss … it can destroy you as much as the loss itself.”
“Will you follow me?”
