A Broken Blade Quotes

“Shadows were largest just before sunset, but lost their power when night inevitably fell. For Shadows don't exist in the dark.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“A broken blade can be mended.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“You might be in pain, but you still have purpose.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“The weight you bear is not your punishment, Keera. It is your heart. One day it will stop bleeding.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“Death is the only certainty in this life,”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“I didn't want to look at people I couldn't help.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“I carried that guilt with me for a long time. I choked it down with more than drink too. Anything to spare me from that pain. Spare me from the memories. The decisions I made. And the ones I could not take back.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“I do not pretend to know the details of your pain, but I know the weight of it. I will not judge you for how you lighten the load.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“I pushed past him. uninterested in speaking any more about his hate for me. Mine was enough for the both of us.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“Funny how we can feed the poor and it's called treason, while the Crown lets its people starve and it's the king's divine right.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“And still he found beauty in the darkness of it, in my light and my shadows.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“The poor tended to have few secrets. Secret was just another word for power and the poor certainly did not have any of that.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“Tending to pages is a very unpredictable and dangerous endeavor.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“She carried scars of her own. She wouldn't judge me for the ones I'd given myself.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“It was hard to dress as an assassin. Not only did I need to hide the names written on my skin, but the dress had to conceal at least three weapons and still look fantastic.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“Funny how we can feed the poor and it’s called treason, while the Crown lets its people starve and it’s the king’s divine right.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“I was no longer the Blade they had forged. I was something else entirely.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“My scars itched through my tunic. There was no way I could wear the dress without exposing them. Exposing myself.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“We all have to do bad things, Keera. Things we don’t want to do but have to in order to survive. Your hands are forced more than most, but not everyone decides to be kind. That should count for more than the bad.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“That’s the thing about crowns,” I whispered. “When one head falls”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“My body is made of scars”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade