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121 " I know you’re strong and so resilient it’s fucking unbelievable, but you don’t have to always be strong with me. "
― Jennifer L. Armentrout , The Crown of Gilded Bones (Blood and Ash, #3)
122 " Dear gods, it was the man's spine.Kieran's eyes met mine. "He's a little angry. "
123 " Good people didn't stay silent. They were not complicit. "
124 " would rather see a war among my people than have the crown sit upon your head, and you unleashed upon Atlantia. "
125 " Do you know what's carved into our rings? It's in old Atlantian," he told me when I shook my head. "Both say the same thing. Always and forever. That is us.""Yes," I whispered, my throat tightening. "It is. "
126 " I broke, and just like Casteel had promised, he was there to catch those pieces, holding them together and keeping them safe until I could piece myself back together. "
127 " You've faced Craven and vampires, men wearing masks made of human flesh, creatures without faces, and stared down Atlantians who wanted to harm you with the kind of strength and bravery most lack," he whispered. "Remember what you are. Fearless."Fingers touched the other side of my cheek, and Kieran's pale eyes locked with mine. "You are a descendent of the gods, Poppy. You run from no one and nothing. "
128 " Kieran?" I asked as we made our way down the narrow tunnel."Poppy?""I swallowed, my throat dry. "Are you...are you doing ok?"He didn't answer right away, and I thought the hand he held the torch with trembled. "No."I briefly closed my eyes."Are you?""No," I whispered. "
129 " My first. My guard. My friend. My betrayer. My partner. My husband. My heartmate. My everything. "
130 " If any of those who inflicted one second of pain on you still breathed, I would tear them apart, limb from limb. I pray that the death you dealt them was slow and painful. "
131 " I stayed there until flashes of muted color surrounded me. Reds. Silvers. Golds. They swirled together, and I slipped through them, falling back through the nights, through the years, until I was small and helpless, standing before my father. "
132 " I stared at him, sensing that he was not mortal. He was something else. Something that belonged to me. "
133 " -Te amo mas que a todas las estrellas del cielo.-Te amo mas que a todos los peces del mar. "
134 " I didn’t know if he sensed what I was about to do or if he was worried that I was about to attempt to rip his throat out again, but he caught me without falling over, even though he did wobble a bit. He folded his arms around me without a heartbeat of hesitation, holding me just as tightly as I held him. I felt Casteel’s hand on my lower back, just under Kieran’s arms, and the three of us stayed like that for a little while. "
135 " I know what my actions would’ve caused.” “And yet?” “Here we stand,” he replied. I inhaled sharply as I felt the hot burn of anger break through the walls that his father had built. “Yes, here we all stand, apparently determined to irritate the hell out of one another. Not me. I don’t want to irritate anyone—you know, the person who was attacked not once but twice and then shot in the chest with a crossbow,” I snapped, and both their gazes shot to me. “And yet, I’m the one who has to tell you two to knock it the hell off. "
136 " And you will be the Queen of nothing. Kill her. "
137 " Get ‘em, girl. "
138 " Rise,” Eloana ordered softly, her eyes glistening with bright tears when I looked up. She smiled. “Rise as the Queen and King of Atlantia. "
139 " Malec is not your father,” Nektas said. “The blood that courses through you is that of Ires, his twin. "
140 " Míranos, poniéndonos de acuerdo en a quién matar y a quién no. "