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1 " Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting. "
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes , Demon in My View (Den of Shadows, #2)
2 " A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty. "
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
3 " My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand. "
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes , Hawksong (The Kiesha'ra, #1)
4 " I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask. "
5 " Fate has a twisted sense of humor. "
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes , Midnight Predator (Den of Shadows, #4)
6 " Live it well and this life can be grand. "
7 " I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy. "
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes , Shattered Mirror (Den of Shadows, #3)
8 " Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. "
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes , In the Forests of the Night (Den of Shadows, #1)
9 " In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present. "
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes , The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows (The Kiesha'ra, #1-5)
10 " White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime. "
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes , Persistence of Memory (Den of Shadows, #5)
11 " Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. "
12 " Insanity makes the rivers flow. "
13 " Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark. "
14 " You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for? "
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes , Snakecharm (The Kiesha'ra, #2)
15 " The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night. "
16 " Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare. "
17 " No one can make you a victim but yourself. "
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes , The Den of Shadows Quartet
18 " I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8) "
19 " I want to chase the butterflies. "
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes , Wolfcry (The Kiesha'ra, #4)
20 " You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly understand what it is to fight for what you believe, and how sometimes you have to fight with words and dreams after all the weapons have been put away. You serve a cold god, surviving on his power for thousands of years without ever living! "
