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“Why does everyone hate change so much?” I demanded.
change means you hve to shed. Get rid of old habits and be born again
And I think I’ve loved you,” he said, “since that night you pulled a shackle off my arm.”
“I’ve come,”
“to claim that cowrie shell.”
“I kept Amah’s anklet with me to remember. But it’s yours now.”
“You let me carry your story. I trust you to carry mine.”
“I choose the girl who walks through fire,”
“I choose sunshine.”
“Please keep up, Tarisai. I wouldn’t want to lose you.”
“You’re tired, sunshine girl,”
Your mother forced you to hurt Dayo; you had no say in it. I’m sorry for saying those cruel things. You’re nothing like The Lady.”
“You did nothing wrong. There is no reason to feel guilty.”
when I saw Dayo all bloody like that, and you standing over him, I lost my head. I couldn’t help it. But you didn’t deserve that. You . . . you aren’t The Lady.”
crossing out of the Bush into a rural village.
“I knew it,”
“That spark, that . . . heat I saw around you when we first met . . . it disappeared when you made yourself forget your past. Still, the spark came back, sometimes. When you were very happy, or very angry.
“You glow like Dayo,”
“You’re immune to fire.
The Lady to death at your First Ruling, in one month’s time.”
the Emperor of Aritsar over the edge.
“That was Olugbade’s knife,” I sobbed. “He poisoned it. You poisoned her.”
The Lady had anointed Woo In, and so he could kill her—just as Thaddace had killed Olugbade. Against Woo In’s hand, she was immune to nothing.
