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“For you, three days away from books means something is terribly wrong.”
But everyone else in Vhalla’s life had a reason to be kept at arm’s length.
Spread your wings, tokshi, and fly. Soar above them, make their eyes tear as they stare into the sun to watch you reach new heights.”
“If I want a future, I’m going to have to cut it from the hands of fate myself.”
She’d tried to make a deal with devils, but she’d forgotten that devils lie.
“What does any man want when they have tasted power? To rule the world.”
“You are strong. You are a chick that has burst from its shell, and you are already struggling to fly long before you should ever be pushed from the nest.”
But never lose faith, never lose your beautiful heart. Don’t let them win, those wicked men and women who would do anything to cage you or kill you.”
know, no matter how horrible the act could be that brought my death, I will die happy, for I lived with my friends.”
“Damn it, Larel.” Fritz’s voice was at the verge of tears. “Why, why didn’t—why couldn’t you . . . I don’t want a goodbye.”
They had both been to war, but Fritz had somehow emerged with his heart intact. Vhalla was almost jealous that he could still cry as easily as he did.
“It’s worth it, the chance is worth it. Love is always worth taking the challenge.”
“Love is far better to know, even if it slips from your grasp or doesn’t bear fruit like you’d hoped. People who say they regret love, true love, are just bitter liars.”
In that moment, she felt like she had lived a thousand lifetimes and loved a hundred times.
She’d returned home, she was surrounded by almost everyone she’d ever known, but she still felt very, very alone.
“There may come a time when your apologies aren’t enough,
I realized that I was only the man I’ve let myself be. That if I want something beautiful in my life, if I wanted you, I had to make myself a person that could be the soil in which such beauty could take root.”
“If I am going to be hopeless for anyone, let it be for you, Vhalla Yarl.”
The man was a dark star, brilliant and terrifying, and she was constantly being pulled into his gravity.
How many times would she follow the prince into darkness, trusting his light to guide her?
“I don’t wish we could start over. Everything that happened, we made mistakes, but-but we loved, and I don’t regret that.”
Love was a simple emotion, Vhalla had learned. Once one experienced it, a person understood it, and there was no doubt when one felt it. If there was no doubt, then nothing would ever serve as a substitute. Vhalla knew she understood love. Love was throwing herself into a sandstorm. Love was braving her darkest fears and battling her demons. Love was a blind dash through a Northern jungle. Love was hopeful words shared across a pillow in the darkness. Love was bravery and—perhaps most importantly—forgiveness.
“Vhalla, you are the dawn at the end of a seemingly endless night, and I never showed you enough appreciation for the essential part of my life that you are.”
instead of severing our relationship I should have taken you into my arms and comforted you, promised you that I would find a solution if you only stayed by my side. I should have never been the person I was that drove you to, alone, walk out of those camp doors.”
“I wish I could see the sun rise without thinking of how beautiful you are in the dawn, your hair an impossible mess and your body contorted in that weird way you call sleeping.”
“I wish I was not utterly, hopelessly in love with you, Vhalla Yarl.”
“Infidelity of the heart to some is a greater crime than infidelity of the flesh,”
It hurt, the world hurt. It hurt to look, it hurt to breathe, it hurt to see.
she was as beautiful as a rose with thorns twice as sharp.
“You can’t buy peace with war!”
“The line between genius and madness is so very thin.
“A wise man once told me that something very small can cast a large shadow when it’s close to the sun.”
