Shadow Magic Quotes

“Servants do not speak at all, so how can I ever hope to speak as one?”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

“They also knew that the most frightening Talent was that which required no fanfare at all, that which slipped unnoticed to lie beside you at night and whispered hello from the other side of the pillow.”
― Jaida Jones, Shadow Magic

“They've made him into a deity,' I told Alcibiades, my eyes wide with wonder.
'No,' Alcibiades replied. 'They've made him into a god.”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

“Alcibiades held on to him in the same way he held on to all beautiful things- as though her were somewhat afraid of their beauty.”
― Jaida Jones, Shadow Magic

“He tried to kill me," I said, not because I thought I could trust Caius, but more because I didn't have anyone else to tell.
Caius opened his eyes again, and I could see the milky outline of his bad eye through the fall of his hair.
"Oh, my dear," he said. "I know.”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

“But I hated the Emperor of the Ke-Han with everything I had in me, for every man I'd lost and every friend who'd died, for every story I'd known was false but had allowed to harden my heart against the enemy anyway.”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

“The wall rose high above us in the night, illimitable and fearsome. If we could just get across it, then we would be all right; I knew it deep in my bones. But for the moment it stood between us and our escape, and I was as frightened of it as I had been of the Volstov dragons. It was on the same scale and, beyond that, it meant just as much- a cruel, stark metaphor, the symbol of oppression.
And yet it was only a wall.”
― Jaida Jones, Shadow Magic

“Fighting you's the only reward I want,' I said, 'for saving your life.”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

“So I put my shoulder against the door, which was too little for me anyway, said a hearty fuck your mother to the element of surprise, and flung myself out into the mirrored hallway where, as Temur had explained, at least six men would be waiting for me.”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

“For those of my generation, the war had been a fact of life since birth. Many had assumed it would end at our deaths, and not before that. So for a great number of people, perhaps even all of us, the end of the war had meant a feeling of confusion and dissatisfaction. No one knew his place in life without the war to give it structure. We were all like the tigers, turned loose in the city streets and found again a bare day later, hiding ourselves in familiar, small spaces. It was all that we knew- a way of life better suited to us than freedom.”
― Jaida Jones, Shadow Magic

“You can pretend it's a play,' I told him. 'Such small things do not anger the gods. Plays only anger the mortal men who watch them”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic