Bonesmith Quotes

“I'd rather be alone among the wolves I know than alone among those I don't.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“Wren was everything that was wrong with his world, but she was also the only thing that was right. The only thing that made sense.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“death is as certain as the dawn, and just as a new day will come, so too will the new dead rise. ... and we will be there. so the living may thrive, and the dead may rest in peace.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“And instead of standing with us to fight this threat, your house marched into the Breach, escorting an army into our lands, and then stood aside, watching as they and the undead mowed us down. How brave. How heroic. You left us here to die, and you begrudge us fighting back? fighting to survive? We need no forgiveness. We need justice.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“The truth was, she wanted something real, even if it was painful.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“Suspecting that no one will care if you're gone and then knowing it for certain are two different things.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“Reaping might provide peace, but the undead wanted to live, just like everything else.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“She was gratified to have possibly earned his respect, but a part of her grated at the idea that she’d had to in the first place. He was her father. He should have respected her before she was useful, should have loved and cared for her before she had proven she deserved it.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“But then he looked at Wren, and suddenly , he didn’t want to be strong. He wanted to surrender. To let go. To unravel. Even just for a moment.
Which was exactly why he couldn’t.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“Blood calls to blood, and like to like.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“She'd take the rage of the living over the silence of the dead any day.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“She had never been chosen before, and certainly not by someone who had seen all her faults and shortcomings firsthand.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“She wanted to argue — it was what they were best at — but to do so would be to reveal how much it mattered to her. How much she cared. So she said nothing.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“She thought she had known what it felt like to blink into the shadows, to gasp for breath— to not know what horror might lurk around the next corner.

She thought she knew fear.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“Leo shrugged, “Keep the bar low enough and you’re never disappointed.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“She gasped, somewhat surprised and Julian had never wanted to kiss her more. But that was a bad idea. He’d told her as much. It was a bad idea because he’d lose himself to it, to her, like his father had done. But that was his uncle talking, wasn't it? Maybe the only way he’d lose is if he’d let her go.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“We go in," Wren said with more confidence than she felt. But that, she had learned, was the way confidence worked.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“She liked the idea. That a person was rewarded for their hard work, even if magic - like power - was something some people were born with.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“There was a crown, made out of twisted broken bones-a sick parody of the champions wreath Inara had won during the Boonewood Trial-punctured at irregular intervals with the same dark spikes that pierced Wren's ring, creating a haunting halo.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“...and then placed her palm flat on the ground. Her skin tingled a moment, then a burst of magic shot up her arm. She took a breath, the power crackling in her lungs and surging through her body. 
Limitless power.
Dark power.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn’t it?”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“And despite what had happened between them the past few days, they were not friends. Not really. They were each other’s only life raft in a storm, but the storm was over, and they were back on solid ground. For now.
No, they weren’t friends.
They weren’t anything.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“He couldn't afford to get caught up, to weaken himself with feelings he couldn't control, with a WANTING he couldn't shake.
With a trust that might be misplaced.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“She reapplied her eye black, using the reflective surface of Julian’s breastplate—much to his annoyance, as he was currently wearing it—to carefully outline her lips.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“though shorter than she thought he’d be, standing an inch or so beneath her.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“That was the duty of the reapyr. But not all ghosts went quietly. Some put up a fight, so it was the valkyr’s task to defend the reapyr from the undead.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“They didn’t reflect one another, but rather, seemed to round each other out.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn't it?”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“Without their separate identities between them, they were just two people alone in the dark.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“Je crois bien que tu es ma seule et unique amie, Wren Graven. Alors, je resterai à tes côtés, pour le meilleur et pour le pire.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith