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161 " Can you fight?"Jestine nods in my direction. "I can take Cas on pretty easily.""Is that supposed to impress me? "
― Kendare Blake , Girl of Nightmares (Anna, #2)
162 " Fear kept you sharp, that it kept you steadfastly holding on to your life. "
163 " This is weird. There's a dead woman in front of me like dozens of other dead women I've seen. But this one is a queen, and a famous one. If it's possible to be starstruck by the dead, then I guess that's what's happening. "
164 " She raises her brows at Thomas and Carmel."How do you want to room? The two of you and the two of us? Or boys in one, girls in the other?""Boys in one," I say quickly."Right. Back in a minute." Jestine gets up to make the arrangements, leaving me with my gaping friends."Where'd that come from?" Carmel asks."Where'd what come from?"As usual, playing dumb gets me nowhere. "
165 " Having no choice doesn’t seem fair.But having all of them isn’t really easier. "
― Kendare Blake , Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
166 " I even had this idea that the knife stopped working, that after a certain time it just stops working for you, when your number is up. I thought maybe it was me who had done it. That I killed him just by growing older, and being ready to replace him. "
167 " For the record I don't believe in Fate. I believe that the pieces have been placed. The ending hasn't been written yet. "
― Kendare Blake , Antigoddess (Goddess War, #1)
168 " His skin is black as a struck match, cracked and oozing liquid metal heat, like he's covered by a cooling layer of lava. The eyes stand out bright white. I can't make out from this distance if they have corneas. God I hope they have corneas. I hate that creepy weird-eye shit. "
169 " I feel … sane. Is that possible? "
170 " Tú me haces querer cosas que no puedo tener -Anna "
171 " I’ll be here if he needs me. I’ll watch his back.” Carmel smiles. “Better watch all sides. He can be downright clumsy sometimes. "
172 " What is it about the sight of your mother that makes everything fireside-warm and full of dancing Muppets? "
173 " That’s what they call you, on the mainland. Witches. That’s what my father says that you are. Monsters. Beasts. But you are not a monster.” “No,” she says quietly. “And neither are the rest "
― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)
174 " If I allowed it, he'd strap on a proton pack and follow me around the country "
175 " What are you going to fill it with?" she asks. "Holy water or something?" "Probably Dasani," Thomas replies. "
176 " Imagination has a poor memory, it slinks away and gets blurry. Eyes remember much longer. "
177 " Only a king consort is fool enough to love a queen "
178 " The cloth overlay of Billy’s cart clucks, and a brown chicken pokes her head out from under the covering, stepping out of the basket she was riding in.“There is a chicken in your cart.”“I know,” Billy snaps, and slaps his napkin across his lap.“Why is there a chicken in your cart?”“Because this was supposed to be chicken stew,” he says. “I’ve been hand-feeding this bird for days to be sure it was not poisoned before the fact. And now . . .” He pours Mirabella some water and drinks from her cup. The hen clucks, and Billy tosses down a chunk of bread.“Now her name is Harriet,” he says quietly.Mirabella laughs. "
― Kendare Blake , One Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns, #2)
179 " But everyone knows that the Breccia Domain is more than an empty hole in the earth. Who knows what happened to the queens who were thrown down into the dark? Into the heart of the island, where the Goddess’s eye is always open. Who knows how she kept those queens or what she turned them into "
180 " Are we lost? You’d admit it if we were lost, right?”Thomas smiles, maybe a bit nervously. “We’re not lost. At least, not yet. They might’ve changed some of the roads around since the last time.”“Who the hell are ‘they’? Road construction squirrels? It doesn’t even look like these things have been driven on in the last ten years. "