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“What is a bargain if not an oath? And what is an oath if not a promise with a price?
“You are the girl who faced the High Council of Regents, whose mind survived a mesmer by the Seneschal Tacitus himself. You are the girl who fought the Pendragon back into his own dimensional prison. What unsettles that girl? That you so easily lose grip of the very same power you fought tooth and nail to harness?”
SOMETIMES “TOO LATE” is a matter of seconds.
Her bravery, always laced with her fear. If Bree can stand against them, then I must stand too.
My interruption emboldened them to make their own, and something like pride grows roots in my chest.
“You dance with treason today, Scion Davis.” “If treason is truth, then perhaps I do. Or perhaps I merely tire of your version of loyalty.”
“Not when she bears our burdens for us and goes so unprotected. Not when you erase her humanity to guard your own power and protect your own whiteness.”
there are intentions and there is reality… and it seems I am forever caught between the two.
I hate recognizing that the women who helped raise me are aging, even though I know to age is an honor.
Sometimes you need another voice to press itself into you and remind you that you’re right to say the scary thing, even if that scary thing is absolutely true.
“I knew you could grieve dead people,” I whisper. “Guess I didn’t realize you could grieve living people too.”
Human beings deny other human beings’ humanity and call that power.”
I’d rather fight a demon in a bathroom than a human man with malicious intent.
Nearly every culture on the planet has produced a quest story, although they may call these journeys by different names. While the purpose of a quest is often defined as an external achievement—slay the dragon, save the maiden—the true end product is not external but internal.” He looks at me. “The beginning of a quest is often loss. A great and necessary loss, to spark the first step down the road unknown.”
“I don’t expect or need all of my ancestors to understand my life, but I think I deserve to live it. I deserve to figure it out.”
