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Boys. Children playing at men. Quinn had lain with a king. She’d kissed a god. They were nothing.
“Loyalty may be the greatest gift, but it doesn’t matter who is loyal if you cannot protect yourself. Self-sufficiency is what survivors are made of.” — Quinn Darkova, fear twister, walker of realms
“Survival is strength by another name. The ability to withstand and endure is the true marker of the fittest.” — Quinn Darkova, fear twister, walker of realms, reluctant protector of children
“I’m not a mother. I’m not kind. I’m not patient, nor am I selfless—and I’m okay by that.
“Someone who is not kind can still show kindness,”
“Any woman that can ensnare a king and a god—that can die and find her way back—that can defy the very order of things—well, I see now that you don’t need freedom. No one is strong enough to hold you down.”
She was the winter winds sent by death.
“Destiny is just a more ignorant term for being manipulated by the gods.”
“If one doesn’t understand, then they’re asking the wrong questions. Knowledge is the bane of ignorance.”
“The truth can either break someone or make them stronger, and only that person decides which.”
If she were any weaker of will, she would have lost then and let the darkness take her. She would have surrendered to the warmth she so desperately wanted to feel. But Risk was not made to be warm.
The thumping ceased. Thunder rolled. And when Risk Darkova lifted her head, she had no intention of ever bowing it again.
“Lies are for the weak. Those who do not fear the consequences have honesty in everything.” — Quinn Darkova, fear twister, walker of realms
The gods are not kind. They are not benevolent. They might have created us, but they made us for the purpose of toying with us. We’re all but slaves to their wills as they decide what destiny and fate is.
“The gods are the last ones we should be praying to. We have to help ourselves.”
It was gory and horrifying and powerful.
them personally when I get my hands on them. I don’t like liars, and I don’t respect traitors. I will burn both their lineages at the stake for what they’ve done.”
They might have been facing an army with a hundred thousand men, but as Quinn had proven time and time again, men were little more than pawns when she chose to play the game.
She bathed in their blood as they ripped each other apart. She was baptized in their deaths as the sheer magnitude of what she’d done overcame her.
There is nothing so thrilling or intense as loving a dangerous woman. When you don’t know if she will kiss you or try to kill you, it’s a love that weak men do not survive, and strong men would give anything to hold on to.” — Lazarus Fierté, soul eater, King of Norcasta
“The line between recklessness and fearlessness is thinner than one may think.”
“We all have good and evil inside of us, but to give either too much power is just another form of slavery.” — Quinn Darkova, fear twister, walker of realms, willful assassin
“Hopelessness is just another form of surrender and it will kill you faster than any blade.” — Axelle, Queen of Ilvas, Saltira’s heir
“The key to power is neither fear, nor fury, nor control. It is acceptance. Only in accepting ourselves for all that we are, both good and bad, can we become who we are meant to be.”
“You’re bold for one that knows killing me means their own death,” he said, narrowing his eyes. Quinn tsked. “I believe you said, ‘any harm done unto me shall have the same done back to you.’ They are not the same.” Quinn grinned maniacally, and she swore that somewhere out there she heard a laugh, deep and dark and sultry. As if Mazzulah knew that they’d won.
“To be a hero doesn’t mean to be inherently good, for every villain is a hero when they tell their story. When one can live forever, they need not care whether the future will praise or condemn their past. For they will own the day. Every day, till the end of time.” — Quinn Darkova, fear twister, walker of realms
