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There were some bad days, but there were a lot of good days too, and I won’t trade any of those for the world.”
“I don’t care. I’ll bring us back from the grave if I have to, silver heartsglass or not.” “And I will kill anyone standing between us,” he promised, before his lips closed over mine, “even if I have to crawl out of my grave to do so.”
Sea and sky can influence each other, though they never meet.
“Words are shapeshifters. They take different forms to suit different motivations. The word for blue can be sifted and changed until it spells red. We share similar teachings with the Faceless, but what they take and learn from those teachings are different from the messages we treasure. It is why words are important, and it is why they can be dangerous.”
“The road to treachery and malice has always been cobbled with the intentions of those who thought to only do what was best.”
Even the dead have their stories.”
“You can’t break the rules simply because you want to. More often than not, the rules wind up breaking you.
“The best truths are always simple, I think. Life makes them complicated.
“Temptation is strange, Lady Tea—it crawls out of unexpected places.
“People never believe paint is wet until they have touched it for themselves.
“Our value changes depending on how we perceive our worth,
“I suppose it’s easier to judge when you’re on the outside looking in, isn’t it?
I’m not sorry for killing him. I am only sorry that I had not done so earlier.
now do you understand why the strongest is not always the worthiest?”
“Wars come sooner or later, but they come all the same.
“I’m sorry. I haven’t apologized, have I? All those years waiting for the right time, never realizing there would never be one until I made it so.
In our quest to protect those we love, sometimes we end up hurting them worse.
We’ve been by each other’s side for so long. You’ve given me a new lifetime, so let me spend it apologizing. Let me make it up to you. Please. I can’t…
It would be so easy. To immerse myself in the quiet, to close my eyes, to let out one final breath. It would be so easy to die.
A life worth dying for is a life worth living after all.”
