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1 " I refused to show my fear, lock it down, Huntress. "
― Ann Aguirre , Enclave (Razorland, #1)
2 " Don’t let them see you weak. "
3 " The strong survive. "
4 " I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time. "
5 " ... Where did you go?”“Down below.”“Ugh,” she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.”Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw. ... I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. “I’m Deuce, animal from the underground. "
6 " There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness. "
7 " I never belonged anywhere until I met you. "
8 " A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant. "
9 " He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad. "
10 " You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination.That would have to do. "
11 " We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind. "
12 " A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to. "
13 " A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two. "
14 " My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear. "
15 " Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes. "
16 " My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running. "
17 " He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met. "
18 " Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought. "
19 " I admired Stalkers style. He was incredibly fast using two small blades strapped to the backs of his hands. Slash slash slash. Fighting him you wouldn’t die of one great wound but instead bleed out slowly surprised to find yourself weak and dying after a thousand cuts. "
20 " The whole world is like Whitewall's razors," I burst out. "It cuts us, and we bleed, but there's no purpose to it. "
