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Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2) QUOTES

Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2) QUOTES

1 " You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said.

'I prefer the term strategic thinker. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

2 " Even when I was young and content and thought life would bring good things for me and mine, I didn't believe in miracles. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

3 " Every ancient tale has truth at its heart," I said. "That's what I've always believed, anyway. But after years and years of retelling, the shape of those old stories changes. What may once have been simple and easily recognized becomes strange, wondrous and magical. Those are only the trappings of the story. The truth lies beneath those fantastic garments. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

4 " About happy endings. Folk like a story to finish well. Doesn’t matter if that’s true to life or not. Helps to hear about folk being content. About good folk getting what they deserve. While you’re listening you can believe, for a bit, that you’re good too. Worth a happy ending. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

5 " Seven years of this and I'll have lost whatever edge I once had," I said. "I'll have turned into one of those well-fed countrywomen who pride themselves on making better preserves then their neighbors, and give all their chickens names. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

6 " That’s what it is to be a hero,” Ríordán says. “It’s fighting on even when you’re hopelessly outnumbered. It’s seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It’s doing the very best you can. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

7 " The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

8 " had seen enough such deaths before to know that when the cloud of sorrow hangs too heavily over a person, nothing helps; no love, no hope, no "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

9 " He used to say, God is everywhere. In the work of your hands; in the beating of a bird's wings; in the roots of an oak and in the stones of the riverbed. In the rising of the sun. In the heart of a man. In the wonders we know, and those that are beyond our knowing. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

10 " Saved my life," Grim said.
"You saved mine."
"Good team, then. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

11 " A loyal servant is a fine thing. We forget, sometimes, how much they do for us. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

12 " Team, aren’t we? That means we trust each other, no matter what. Watch each other’s back. Keep an eye out for trouble. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

13 " You must hold on to hope, or this cannot happen. Let hope go, and your battle is lost. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

14 " You should be brave. Running away isn’t brave. The brave thing, the hard thing is to tell the truth. To face up to whatever it is. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

15 " The flame of spirit we all had within us, the light that never truly went out, even in our times of deepest despair. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

16 " Practice your skills; sharpen your tools; do the best job you can. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

17 " Step by small step; that was the only way I’d survive my time of penance. My lesson in patience. Or whatever it was. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

18 " It is surely better to have had such a love and lost it than never to have known the joy of it at all. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

19 " The dark things that never go away, the sunny, precious things that go all too soon. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

20 " A clever woman could solve puzzles. A fearless woman might ask difficult questions, seek answers in places others would shun. A woman who understood magic might see what an ordinary person was blind to. "

― Juliet Marillier , Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)