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The Bone Palace (The Necromancer Chronicles, #2) QUOTES

The Bone Palace (The Necromancer Chronicles, #2) QUOTES

1 " Isyllt moved carefully forward until her knees bumped stone. A bench, strewn with pillows of threadbare velvet and soft-worn brocade. The stone leeched warmth from her flesh as she sat. She tugged off her right glove, shaking her hand dry. Her breath was harsh and loud in the stillness.

An icy draft heralded the vrykola's arrival, a presence that made the hair on Isyllt's nape prickle. She rose and bowed low, grateful not to stumble or crack her head on anything.

Tenebris' laugh crawled over her skin, cold and slick as oil. "You sit so bravely in the dark." A match crackled and orange-gold light blossomed, brilliant enough to make Isyllt's eyes water. A candle flam quickened and acrid blue smoke coiled through the air. "Is that better? "

― Amanda Downum , The Bone Palace (The Necromancer Chronicles, #2)

2 " Azarné came to watch me play tonight," he said at last.

"Oh," she said, and marveled at her own wit. "I thought you preferred living women."

His mouth quirked. "I do." Finally he looked at her and set the wine aside. She took the invitation and sat beside him again. "Even ones half-starved and pale as you." He dropped a kiss on her shoulder, but his heart wasn't in it. "But--"

"But she's beautiful anyway," she finished. "Do mice find cats beautiful before the kill? Or owls?"

"If mice have poets, I think they must. "

― Amanda Downum , The Bone Palace (The Necromancer Chronicles, #2)

3 " They ate griddle cakes and mulled cider at the Black Holly tea shop across the plaza, and Isyllt explained about Forsythia's murder and the haematurge. "

― Amanda Downum , The Bone Palace (The Necromancer Chronicles, #2)

4 " I imagine being a flock of birds for years was... taxing. "

― Amanda Downum , The Bone Palace (The Necromancer Chronicles, #2)

5 " They sat in cold and silence for a moment while the blue light of dawn rose behind the curtains. She didn't say that's horrible, because he knew it was. She didn't say how could you? because she knew how he could. She didn't say I'm sorry because that didn't help anything.

"She's due her revenge," Isyllt said at last. "

― Amanda Downum , The Bone Palace (The Necromancer Chronicles, #2)

6 " She turned from him, the shape of her shoulders a shutting door. "

― Amanda Downum , The Bone Palace (The Necromancer Chronicles, #2)

7 " He remembered her wild moods from her first life; death had done nothing to settle them. Some physicians thought that her particular combination of mania, black despair, and violent temper was an illness, an imbalance of humors or aethers. But if it were a physical malady, shouldn't it have died with her first body? A defect of the soul, perhaps? Or was she simply so used to being mad that it had become habit? "

― Amanda Downum , The Bone Palace (The Necromancer Chronicles, #2)