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“If I wallow in every loss, that’s all I’ll ever have time for.”
“He isn’t a soulless venin. He’s still Xaden. My Xaden,”
Xaden is mine. My heart, my soul, my everything. He channeled from the earth to save me, and I’ll scour the world until I find a way to save him right back.
“Dying today would be inconvenient,”
“‘Your wings won’t hold the weight of this ice,’” Andarna blatantly mocks him. “And yet yours miraculously carry the burden of your ego.”
Hahahaha
“Pain isn’t a competition,” I assure him. “There’s always enough to go around.”
“Pay attention to the present, not the past,” Tairn lectures.
“You are hereby charged with high treason against the kingdom of Navarre!”
!!!!!
It was hotter than rage, and sharper than fear, and cut deeper than helplessness, all because I couldn’t get to you.”
“Do you really think this is the only room where I’ve felt tormented? Pain isn’t new to me, Jack. She’s an old friend I spend most of my days with, so I don’t mind if she sings to you.
“I am yours and you are mine, and there’s no law or rule in this world or the next that will change that.”
The next Monday, I contemplate slamming my head against the twelve-person table that fills what Mom had called the “planning chamber” on the second floor of the administration building. It would probably be a better use of my time
“Knowledge and wisdom are two different things,” I answer. “Scribes are careful not to ask for what should be earned.”
Only go to war with those you trust implicitly.
As far as I’m concerned, you have the credibility of a drunkard and the integrity of a rat.
It’s a sensory feast, and I consume it like a starved woman.
“Aretia is the second most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” He hands me his reins, turning those gorgeous, gold-flecked onyx eyes into weapons capable of melting the underwear straight off my body as he looks up at me. “And my home is the first.”
And yet…if all of it hadn’t happened, would we still be us? Or is the miracle of our relationship the result of a precise combination of tragedies that broke us both so completely that when we collided, we became something entirely new?
“I warned you,” Xaden says as the man hits his knees. “Your error was changing your assessment to targeting me as the threat and letting your eyes off her.”
There’s no society in the world that doesn’t keep some kind of cutting tool, and eventually…well, we all cut, don’t we?”
“No, no. Staying down is a safer bet for everyone involved,” Xaden warns him. “She only wounded you, but I’ll kill you if you take another step toward her, and it turns out that’s bad for international relations.”
“And you must be Asher Sorrengail’s daughter, here to collect the books he wrote for you.” My heart stops.
He didn’t love me, not in the way I deserve to be loved, and no amount of power is worth staying with someone who doesn’t love you.”
