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Love is for children, said the girl. Death is for fools, said the shadow. Darkness is my destiny, said the boy. Allegiance is my undoing, said the eagle. Suffering is our fate, said the beauty. And they were all horribly wrong.
People died because he lived.
He was the purger of life. The Prince of Death.
Think of all the women you can help by being you.”
“And if you find your throne cold and empty, sit on it.”
Monsters preferred solitude.
a display of pride for the victory over a man who defied men, only to be slain by women.
“Death will be her companion. He’s kept her safe all this time. Why stop now?”
Who decides what’s out of reach, if not we ourselves?
I will be victorious, or I will die.”
“Be as victorious as the name I have given you, and bring the desert to its knees.”
level. “Zafira. The moon never fears the night. The gazelle doesn’t fear the unknown. Why must you, Huntress?” “But this is not an unknown.” “These are your fears, bleeding from the Hunter and into you. Don’t fear yourself.”
“The beauty that withstands all. Stubborn in the harshest of atmospheres.”
“Promise me,” Yasmine said softly, “that if you die, you will die fighting to return to me.”
The living can’t survive with promises to the dead.”
Too good for this world basking in darkness.
Foreshadowing
A thousand leagues and a thousand sands. For you, a thousand times I would defy the sun.
There was nothing more respectable and dangerous than a woman of confidence.
