"My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned."
Sayfa 204 - CardanKitabı okudu
Dante, 23 years
“You’re the queen on the board, Amara. You’re my most powerful piece, but my most vulnerable. They get you, they get me, and the game is over. So I’ll do whatever I need to make sure they never get you.”
“Marry me, Amara. Be my wife, be my dirty girl, be mine.”
“You’re a romantic.”
“Give me your dreams and your nightmares, your pleasure and your pain, your fantasies and your fears. Give me everything. Be my queen outside, and my filthy girl inside. And make me fucking yours, so everyone who looks at my ring knows I have you finally. Say yes, Amara.”
“And we’ll do it as we do everything. Together, you and me. We make this kingdom what we want. Tonight was a big step towards that. We have answers and we have a lead. We’re building a new house on the foundations of an old one, and if need be, we’ll paint it with blood.”
“So, what, we play them, my king?”
“We play them, my queen.”
“You’re the queen on the board, Amara. You’re my most powerful piece, but my most vulnerable. They get you, they get me, and the game is over.
Sayfa 181Kitabı okudu
Ode to nightingale
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,—
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
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“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I
guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all.
Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.”
Cardan
With my whole heart, I wish Cardan was here. I can almost imagine him
lounging on a chair, giving me pointers on speechmaking. It would have
annoyed me so much, and now, thinking of it, there’s a cold pit of longing
in my stomach.
I miss him, and the pain of it is a yawning chasm, one into which I yearn
to let myself fall.
Cardan’s fingers dig into my back. He’s trembling, and whether it is from
ebbing magic or horror, I am not sure. But he holds me as though I am the
only solid thing in the world.
In the pictures, tiny squares represent soldiers, but I see my brothers and Kilorn and everyone like them.
Sayfa 147 - Mare
They struck a blow against me here, and now it's my turn to strike back.
Sayfa 233 - Mare
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“My king,” the door says fondly, its eyes opening.
Cardan smiles in return. “My door,” he says
In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me.
Sayfa 355 - Mare