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“and now there was no golden gown, no golden princess-to-be, making her look dull and unremarkable by compare. within the house of blood, lady agnes was the only bright thing. her gleam was softer, subtler than her cousin’s, but here, where there was no sun, the moon was an object of greatest worship. with marozia’s light gone, agnes was aware, for once in her subservient, ignorable life, she could shine.”

“it was not the same vibrant life as her cousin marozia, the ever-more-resplendent flower. agnes was another plant, trickier in its arrangement of petals, not so easy to find within a field of many blossoms, all competing for the attention of the sun and the admiration of humans. she was a night-blooming flower that did its growing in the dark, nurtured by the moon and weaned by the stars.”

“her silence was as much a choice as any speech had ever been. it was not withdrawal, not cowering. as she had discovered, silence was not the absence of a thing. it was a force in and of itself. she brandished it like a sword. and in that manner, she could alter the shape of things. perhaps only in the minutest fashion, but her screams had never done so much. they had been empty air.”

i have high hopes for this one