A Time of Prophecy Quotes

“Thom leaned back, regarding him appreciatively. 'Is there a word in Radian for captain? I've always wanted to know.'
'Kefale. Although such words have long gone out of use. There are no captains in Joro nowadays. No kings.
Thoms lips twitched. 'And yet you are my captain.'
A look of pure, unadulterated love changed Riddle's normally stoic face into the most open and vulnerable of expressions. 'If I was to ever bow before a king,' he murmured, 'it would be only you.'
'May the armies of Crown and Council tremble,' said Thom with a small, somewhat hysterical laugh.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“You look good,' she offered. 'Better than you used to.'
'More freckles?'
'More freedom.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“If there was one thing Thom had learned a long time ago, it was that prisons could look like anything. Some looked like cells with nothing but white walls to stare at; some looked like camps or cliff-side buildings with pens and arenas; some looked like fighting rings or rich manor houses or small shacks in the middle of the forest; some were of your own making, others forced you there against your will, some were inside your own mind. And still others looked like a palace.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“I was raised to believe in many things,' he said in perfect Cuttish, 'but the most frightening of all was the belief that beyond a pile of stones and metal lived a kingdom of demons and death. It is what I believed until one night, a little girl wandered across my brother's path. What I have come to learn in the last few years is that there is no difference between the people of the Outlands and the people of Cutta. We have all been attacked. We have all lost family. We have all been hated for senseless reasons. I do not want a war, but I want a future. A world where we can all live good, whole lives. Where there is no fear, no starvation, no war. And perhaps the best way for this to begin is to work together to ensure that in the process of stopping them, we so not become them.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“He let his mind wander, mental lists lengthening in his mind's eye. But plans were much easier in controllable situations. Wars and rebellions were impossible to control.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“What do you want to do?'
She tilted her head to the side in thought, marvelling at the strangeness of the question. Did she even have any right to want to do something? She wasn't a ruler or politician. She wasn't even a rebel, really. She was just a runaway fugitive who'd learned how to shoot and fight back.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“This is not a world where friends fall out of the skies. We haven't met anyone worth knowing in a very long time.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“I keep thinking about it,' she murmured. 'The Last War, the Kingdom, the Plague...If we don't do something, we'll never be safe. It won't matter how many walls are between us and them. At some point, they'll want to come over. At some point, they'll kill us just because they hate us.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“Wonderful as that sounded, Kitty's chest shuddered as she voiced her next fears. 'How can I bring someone into this world when their parents have both been raped and tortured in it? When their uncle has been eaten alive and forced to murder innocents? When everyone they'll know has been scared or scarred in one way or another?'
'Yes,' said Riddle, 'and we're all still here. We're together. The world and its demons may try and drag us down, but we are proof that they can be fought and conquered, that goodness can follow ill. Evil things happen, Kitty, but should you have children, they will be brought into a new world. A world of halfbloods and new beginnings. A world of two kingdoms instead of one. And there is hope in that.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“In my city,' he began, wiping his hands on his trousers, 'cuttans are as valuable as favours, as valuable as faith. Whether the game you're playing has a game of cuttans, of gold, of jewels, of favours - even of bodies - there's always someone to buy. And rich people buy more than most. Nothing is more appealing to a Council member than power over another. So, you let them think they have that power and then you get what you need. True power is knowing what everyone wants. Many want me. I've known that since I was a little boy. It's how I got so far. People talk when they think they have control over you. I've a decade's worth of secrets to exploit, given to me with no thought for the consequences by the most powerful figures in the Kingdom.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“Thom pretended to think on it, but he couldn't stifle his smile. Reaching out, he ghosted his fingers across Riddle's jaw , and he let them linger over his lips. 'You know,' he mused, 'you're the one person I know who I don't have to be anyone around.'
'Do you prefer it?'
'I think it's a close to happiness as I can imagine.'
'Being no one?'
'Yes,' he said honestly. 'But I meant being with you.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“Of all those Thom had admired before, Riddle was the only one whose mere presence silenced his fears, his doubts, his insecurities. As if Riddle had unknowingly mastered the art of walking into his nightmares and killing his demons one by one.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“Gao repeated his name. He liked the way it sounded when she said it, as if his name were the start of a song. As if his name were something beautiful. Could monsters have beautiful names?”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“It was the only course of action any of us could see having a chance of working. And it did. The human weapon against our people is eradicated. You learned information that saved the lives of countless friends and innocent strangers. What you did worked. That doesn't mean you cannot scream at the stars over what was done to you.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“What matters is that humans, halfbloods, Outcasts and Radiants are all fighting as one,' said Thom softly. 'Whatever comes of this war - whatever the outcome - let history remember that we fought together. That we died side by side. In the end, that still means a great deal.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“Just because not everyone's going to like it out here doesn't mean they shouldn't have the right to choose.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy

“He let out a tremulous breath. 'Do you want to know what I admire about you?'
She looked at him with a small smile. 'My staunch and unyielding stubbornness?'
'No, it's that I think even my demons are afraid of you, darling. Because God's wrath, they are not afraid if me.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy