And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

by Kiersten White

One day she would build her own church, and God would see her, too.

Radu nodded, snuggling into her shoulder. “Will you protect me?” “Until the day I kill you.”

You can choose to be brave and compassionate. And you can choose to find beauty and happiness wherever they present themselves.”

Lada always made him feel weak and clumsy, but Mehmed expected him to keep up, which made it easy to do so.

Most days I think I owe my life to the Ottomans. On the field at Varna, I realized I do not want to give my life for them. But in my heart, I am a soldier, and I wish to do nothing else.”

The two had mixed together in her head, until it was men and their snakes that had persuaded Eve to lose her beautiful, perfect garden.

There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.

“She never picked up a sword, but thirty thousand traitors died under her command. She was a prostitute, bowing to any man with enough coin, then a woman who never again bowed to anyone. And do you think she did that wearing trousers?”

You feed death as many people as you can to keep it full and content so its eye stays off you.”