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21 " What have you got, you mad old witch?" I gasped. "Manipulation? Power?" I did my best to sneer. "Darkness?" I heaved sunlight into my arms and felt the blade lift slightly. "Those things may be enough to take a kingdom, Your Majesty, but they aren't enough to keep it. "
― Hanna Howard , Ignite the Sun
22 " The Darkness was like a long swathe of fabric covering our island kingdom. "
23 " There was no place in her kingdom the sun might shine its naked face. "
24 " I was a monster. It was almost the only thought I had room for, it seemed so big and unwieldy. I am a monster. "
25 " Like a watch that keeps ticking simply because it has been wound, my brain plodded on with the information I had been given. "
26 " I've found you can do just about anything when you have no other choice. "
27 " It's a banshee," said Yarrow. "A herald of death". "
28 " Life can be overwhelming, and sometimes it catches up to you. "
29 " You'd think she'd just given birth to the sun itself, the way she looked at you. "
30 " I could not - would not - be ruled by my fear. I could use it, I could heed its advice, I could even let it fuel me ... but I could not allow it to control me. "
31 " I was glad to have a power that was strong and dangerous. Because the Darkness was strong and dangerous too, and I needed to be a match for it. "
32 " The sunlight ignited my blood and swept through me like brush fire, burning so hot it was almost as excruciating as my initial transformation in the Black Castle. "