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Maybe it’s the whole leather-gloved-always-scowling thing you got going on”—his eyes flickered to my hands—“but I suppose I’ve always been a sucker for a good mystery.
“Friends or not, I’ll still kick your ass.”
“I bet you’re more pissed no one can see you in all your glory than the fact we’re lost in the dark.”
“But I need you to always fight,
even when they tell you that you’ve already lost. If you don’t, then none of us stand a chance.”
I’d killed so many others, but for some reason, I knew her death would be my final undoing.
“You can’t save everyone,”
“In this world, you have to look out for yourself.”
“Yes, people are c-cruel, but if I did nothing, then I’d be just as b-bad as them.”
“And you are an unfeeling, miserable bastard. And when you die, it will be alone.”
“Harlow is staring at you with a look I can only
“Yeah, totally normal behavior coming from our superior.
We were cut from the same cloth, and being friends—or whatever we were—was brand new.
Even if I knew that to be a lie.
As I couldn’t risk lighting a candle in the dorms,
“Sometimes the best part is the middle…before the ending can ruin it for you, that is.”
“You wouldn’t be you if you’d allowed him to perish.
Take care of it in the meantime.
And try not to toss it into the bath.”
“I wouldn’t want to invite the wrath of the most feared man in the kingdom, all because of a book,”
“There was no fear on your face. Only… hunger.”
One wrong word, and you’re dead.
“How would one girl be of any significance?”
What I desired was the impossible.
Fight back.
Or take it and live another day.
You’re like her in many ways—stubborn, self-righteous, and certainly quick to anger.
But like her, you attract the little good in this world, and people—whether they love or hate you—can’t
help but be drawn...
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Always observing.
Forever guarding.
This man brought out the fire I often failed to smother, stoking the flames until the chaos within could not be contained.
Without a damned hope of survival.”
This annoying sense of protectiveness?
Tomorrow was the beginning of the end.
Today, I would deliver a sentence worse than death.
That fate was cruel and we had no other choice but to follow orders.
I never had that option, and I’d be damned if I sent the recruits into the cursed lands without their consent.
Be smart and fucking walk away.
Especially when you have the potential to be great.”
“If you think for one moment that I will let them go and die in that cursed fog without me, then you don’t know me at all.”
Once Kiara had claimed those boys as her own, she would do everything in her power to protect them.
I’d have loosed an arrow into the eye of some deserving man back home.
I’d expected water, but the vodka was a lovely surprise I couldn’t turn down.
I thought I preferred it that way—nothing of beauty and substance should be kept by one person alone.
I cannot make sense of these words, but I do know hope is a powerful thing to have.
Kiara was a wild creature that couldn’t be tamed, and I’d been on my leash for far too long.
“Well, if you insist on dying, you might as well do it with your friends.”
“Well, if we run into anything gruesome out there, I’m gonna use you as bait so I can get away.”
“I can’t decide whether I want to smack you or hug you,”
