A Twist of the Blade (Shadows and Crowns, #2)
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“She’s a menace,” Caden informed him. “Yes,” Elander agreed, more fondly than he meant to—which
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But to him, she would likely always be that Thorn in his side.
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“I could kill you with a word. With a thought.” “Then do it.”
C.R. Hogan
When is it my turn
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Nothing so bright and powerful as you simply fades away without leaving a mark. It can’t be that simple.”
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To attempt escape would be suicide. And yet here Cas was, attempting it. Well, she’d done stupider things. Probably.
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“The alternative, it seems, is watching you stubbornly waste away in that tower. And despite all of the ways you annoy me, I actually have no desire to witness such a thing.”
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“There is nowhere you can go that I can’t find you,” he told her. “And when the time is right, I will find you again.”
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Cas watched with her—she couldn’t seem to pry her eyes away. It seemed important to bear witness to what was happening, even if she felt powerless to do anything about it.
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“You just want to set something on fire.” “Guilty,”
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one piece,
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his Thorn’s
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“You still would have stolen that stuff, even if you were wrong,” Nessa said. “Of course I would have. I just would have felt a tiny bit guilty about it.”
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Who’s afraid?” Zev raised his hand. “Put your hand down, you idiot,” said Laurent.
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i love them sm
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Well, perhaps being near you for any extended amount of time just makes me want to murder things,”
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She had turned surviving into an art form, constantly reforming herself and suppressing the painful memories that might have held her back.
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one piece,
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“I’m doing my part to try and humble you. It’s for your own good.”
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“But that’s the problem with loving deeply, isn’t it?” she asked her hands with a bitter little laugh. “It means you have to hurt deeply, too. And that hurt can twist you up in unexpected ways.”
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“Stop being dark?” He let out an amused little snort. “I am the God of Death.” “Yes, which is why the brooding comes across as terribly predictable and trite, I’m afraid.”
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“I don’t hate you. I just…want to.” He sighed, a corner of his lips quirking in a wistful smile. “I want you to hate me too.”
C.R. Hogan
the noise i just let out wasn't HUMAN
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you don’t have to apologize for the things that hurt you.”
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“If you say it’s complicated to me one more time, I will stab you.”
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Her head dipped toward her chest, unbearably heavy all of a sudden. No, she was none of those things. What she was…was heavy. And tired. So, so tired. But she had walked through countless storms before this one. And she was going to make it to the other side of this one too.
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What is this?” “It’s called water.” “You’ve tricked me again.” “Yes, but for your own good.”
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“Love is not weakness.” “I think you’re mistaken, little mortal.” “And I think you’re kind of a bitch, Middle Goddess.” “About which I am unapologetic.”
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I was just thinking that it’s…strange, how you can mourn people who are still alive. Different than mourning the dead, but it still hurts.”
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You can mourn for things that could have been, too.”
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“Laurent is more the silent, slit-his-throat-while-he’s-sleeping type.”
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Family is not always blood, and blood is not always family.”
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one piece,
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one piece
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But perhaps there was no higher power than this. Than her.
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