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61 " Yes, she wanted answers, and Val promised them—at a price, of course. With Val there was always a price. "
― Nicki Pau Preto , Heart of Flames (Crown of Feathers #2)
62 " These are the costs of war: a thousand shattering moments of pain and loss and a lifetime of regret. "
63 " Val was still her family—and would have been regardless of what that birth certificate said—but now Veronyka was an Ashfire. A royal line. Descended from queens. "
64 " How many times could a person hurt you and your love for them endure?Then again, surely only love could make words like hers cut so deeply? Love didn't stop people from hurting each other-- love made it easier. "
65 " Nothing about hope is foolish. "
― Nicki Pau Preto , Crown of Feathers (Crown of Feathers, #1)
66 " But what he did know was that sadness hit them particularly hard, especially sadness as it related to death. It made sense: phoenixes we’re immortal if not slain and could resurrect if they chose. For them, death was a distant, unknowable thing, and when they did encounter it . . . they did not bounce back as easily. "
67 " When Hestia fount our Sev didn’t have a “sweetheart,” she took it upon herself to send very pretty serving girls instead of assistants to his room ... Hestia hadn’t known Sev had no interest in blushing maidens but she was no fool—before long she was sending handsome serving boys instead. "
68 " Maybe it was her tone - deliberate and without pretence - or maybe it was the fact that she had remembered him not as the person who had done bad things, but instead, as the person who'd had bad things done to him. "
69 " Home isn't a building," he said as soon as their eyes met. "Home is . . ." He cast about as if searching for words. "It's like a bond. It's a place you feel safe; it's the people who make it that way. "
70 " A secret in the wrong hands is as good as a blade in the back. "
71 " Intentions didn't matter when you did the wrong thing. "
72 " Sometimes he wished he experienced the world as simply as she did. It wasn't that Sparrow herself was simple, but rather, she lived and spoke and acted in the most uncomplicated of ways. She understood things about anger and grief and forgiveness that Elliot had not - at least, not until she'd helped him see it - but she didn't let the dark complexities of the world overwhelm or shake her convictions. "
73 " Family was more than blood; family was the people you chose. "
74 " You cannot flee from something that is a part of you. "
75 " Fear is a luxury. "
― Nicki Pau Preto , Crown of Feathers