The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

by Rachel Gillig

What rage is

If the sprites are monsters, it’s because we’ve made them so.”

My armor may dent, my sword may break, but I will never diminish.

It is easier, swearing ourselves to someone else’s cause than to sit with who we are without one.”

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My body had always been strong—and ever just enough. But whatever my soul was made of was frail.

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People who love you for your usefulness don’t love you at all.”

“It’s hard to see who I am when I am lost in what’s expected of me.”

“When you do the right thing for the wrong reason, no one praises you. When you do the wrong thing for the right reason, everyone does, even though what is right and wrong depends entirely on the story you’re living in. And no one says they need recognition or praise or love, but we all hunger for it. We all want to be special.”

maybe the life of Sybil Delling was paid for with the death of Six’s dreams.

Death fluttered over the world like a breeze, stirring our hair, and I knew it well.

“If I am wonderful and wretched for learning the truth of the Omens, your hands are marked by the blood of my metamorphosis.”

“To the faithless, a god is a monster.

And then they were like all the other things I’d dared to love. Gone.

The knighthood came into the courtyard, and I was just as I’d been all those weeks ago. Barefoot in the apple orchard, martyring myself.

Stop I am unwell.