Shadowborn Quotes

“Do you know, I used to feel special, like I would wake up in a fairytale and be a great hero. But now…I don’t know if I want to be in a story anymore. It’s like I am already, and I don’t think I like it. And what would it mean if it were true? What would it mean for you?”
― Moira Katson, Shadowborn

“In the dark of those nights, I learned then that it was not enough for me to endure and wait. I must find a way out of this maze of misery.”
― Moira Katson, Shadowborn

“The Duke would later name me a Shadow, and after his naming, life itself wore me away to make his words true. I have been a Shadow for years upon years now. And yet, I think if I were to trace back to the moment I started to fade away from the world, it would not be when I began my training, or when I first killed, or when I first spied upon my King. It would be the moment that I looked around myself, in that cold mountain village, and realized that I might never have been born and no one would ever have missed me.”
― Moira Katson, Shadowborn

“You, Catwin, no longer exist. You no longer have a fate of your own, a will of your own, or indeed a soul of your own. Henceforth, you and Miriel are to be as one, she the light, and you the shadow. You are to cease thinking of yourself as other from my niece - you are to be her shadow, as Temar is mine. You will go where she goes, you will watch instead of being watched, you will hear instead of being heard. Do you understand me?" - Eral Celys, Duke of Voltur”
― Moira Katson, Shadowborn

“The world had gone horribly, completely wrong and the only way open to them was to keep walking forwards.”
― Moira Katson, Shadowborn

“No one listens to what I might think about how to solve the problems Heddred faces. When I became King, I became no longer a person. Now, I think all they want of me is for me to let them rule in my stead, and get them an heir. And of course, all of them have daughters that they push forward.”
― Moira Katson, Shadowborn

“sometimes one moment can give you the whole key to a person.”
― Moira Katson, Shadowborn

“connection between the two of us.”
― Moira Katson, Shadowborn

“He smiled; I was rapidly coming to the conclusion that he smiled for the express purpose of terrifying people.”
― Moira Katson, Shadowborn

“remembering the long list of names and”
― Moira Katson, Shadowborn