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“Sometimes I think liars are almost as bad as thieves,” he said through a tight jaw. “They steal away trust, something that can’t be returned.”
She was the softest and most vulnerable creature; she was the strongest and most unyielding of his warriors.
sometimes the most obvious solution required only the willingness to take the most unreasonable of actions.
Jade had meaning because of the type of person one had to become to wear it. Jade was the visible proof that a person had dedicated their life to the discipline of wielding power, to the dangers and costs of being a Green Bone.
“I’m not giving you what you want,” Niko said bluntly. “Move on. Want something different.”
Espenian friendship, Hilo thought, is worth exactly what you can pay for it.
The way to defeat a chess master was not with greater genius, but by forcing her to play a different game.
Even the biggest tigers grow old, Hilo had once said. But even the oldest tiger was still a tiger.
