A Shadow Crown Quotes

“How many nights have you slept with faelights flooding your room?” Riven ran his fingertips up and down my skin. I shivered at the touch. He grinned and pressed a biting kiss against my ear. “Every night since you told me about your fear of the dark.”
― Melissa Blair, A Shadow Crown

“My mind is haunted by shadow, Memories and regret, But those shadows don’t scare me now”
― Melissa Blair, A Shadow Crown

“He was a prince and I was an assassin, he had his crown and I had my cloak. They both tore at our skin until we bled, but we wore them still.”
― Melissa Blair, A Shadow Crown

“The ghosts of your past are not omens to predict your future,”
― Melissa Blair, A Shadow Crown

“The truth was not a shield, it was a wall between us. One only you could see yet refused to tear down.”
― Melissa Blair, A Shadow Crown

“We are not the sum of our desires and hopes, Keera, even the selfish ones. We are defined by what we do about them, or in spite of them.”
― Melissa Blair, A Shadow Crown

“A good leader is not born from a lack of conflict, but his response when it arises.”
― Melissa Blair, A Shadow Crown

“I was painting you with the brush of my own fears”
― Melissa Blair, A Shadow Crown

“there was no greater pleasure than the absence of pain.”
― Melissa Blair, A Shadow Crown

“Lingering on the pain of their loss did not serve them now. That would only come with vengeance.”
― Melissa Blair, A Shadow Crown

“because trees, like grief, go through seasons. Their leaves change colors just as our feelings continue to churn and change. Sometimes the leaves fall to the ground entirely, leaving us cold and bare, draining us of hope that the warmth of summer will ever come. But it will.”
― Melissa Blair, A Shadow Crown