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21 " The very best things in life are born of difficulty. Whatever comes too easily is easily abandoned.” “It is the height of irony. I "
― Amy Harmon , The Queen and the Cure (The Bird and the Sword Chronicles, #2)
22 " It was not your face I fell in love with. It was not your great, sad eyes or your soft mouth, or the gold flecks on your skin or the shape of your body. "
23 " It was as if he’d battled the sea all his life only to discover he had scales and gills and belonged beneath the depths instead of casting nets. He no longer knew who he was or what his purpose might be. Or maybe he knew and just didn’t like it. "
24 " There is only one thing in this whole, godforsaken world that would make me want to be bloody King of Caarn. One. Thing.” He raised a finger and jabbed it toward her. “You! I would be the court jester and wear striped hose and paint on my face if it meant I could be near you. "
25 " The very best things in life are born of difficulty. Whatever comes too easily is easily abandoned."The best thing about books is that you can start wherever you like. The pages are in order, but no one will know if you read the last one first "
26 " But the woman who attended him looked like Ariel of Firi—it was the look he thought he preferred—with dusky skin and full lips, round hips and heavy breasts. Her thick, black hair was arranged in fat ropes down her back, and he found himself wishing it was unbound, the curls untamed. When she looked up at him, her eyes carefully lined in kohl and heavy-lidded with pretended ardor, he felt nothing but self-loathing. He immediately sent her away. "