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41 " I am a bad maiden." "No" He kissed my other temple. "You're a perfectly normal girl. What is expected of you is what's bad" He paused. "And yes, you're also a very bad Maiden "
― Jennifer L. Armentrout , From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1)
42 " I have a feeling that if there’s something you want badly enough, nothing will stop you. "
43 " Like when I saw a spider, I behaved as if it were the size of a horse with the cold calculation of an assassin. "
44 " We were enemies, no matter the truths. No matter that I loved him. "
45 " From this moment until the last moment, I am yours. "
46 " His words had touched the deepest part of me, and it was thrilling. I felt alive, like i was finally waking up "
47 " I was the Maiden, the Chosen … I wasn’t Poppy but a shadow of a person who wasn’t allowed to experience, need, live, or want. "
48 " Who would’ve thought the Maiden could throw down? "
49 " Because you’ve been fidgeting like you have spiders in your gown since the beginning of this,” he answered. Spiders in my gown? If I had spiders in my gown, I wouldn’t be fidgeting. I’d be screaming and stripping down to nothing. I wouldn’t care at all who witnessed it. "
50 " Hawke sensed my move and shifted, blocking my knee with his thigh. “You’re so incredibly violent.” He paused. “I think I like it. "
51 " My blood pounded through me in a dizzying push. “I don’t like anything about you.” He laughed as his lips skimmed the side of my throat. “I love how you lie. "
52 " Never cave to panic. If you do, you die. He’d been right. Fear could heighten the senses, but panic slowed everything down. "
53 " Correction,” he said, and then he laughed as the trickle of blood seeped down his neck. It wasn’t a harsh laugh or a patronizing one. He sounded amused. “You’re an absolutely stunning, murderous little creature.” Pausing, he glanced down. “Nice weapon. Bloodstone and wolven bone. Very interesting…” His gaze flicked up. “Princess. "
54 " Purity? I hated that word, the meaning behind it. As if my virginity determined my goodness, my innocence, and its presence or lack thereof was somehow more important than the hundred choices I made every day. "
55 " There was always someone whose pain cut so deeply, was so raw, that their anguish became a palpable entity "
56 " It’s okay, you know?” “What is?” “Everything that you’re feeling,” he said. “And everything that you’re not. "
57 " What I felt was…it was messy and raw. I hated him, and…I didn’t. I cared for him, as idiotic as that was. And I wanted him—his kiss, his touch. But I also wanted to hurt him. We weren’t lovers. We were enemies, and we could never be anything else. I was surrounded by people who hated me. "
58 " Somewhere in there, my present had become the past. I turned to the Rise. Somewhere out there, my future awaited. "
59 " I have a feeling that if you don't leave, he's just going to stand there and drain precious air from my room." "While looking exceptionally handsome. You forgot tot add that. "
60 " And everyone got lonely, no matter if their heart belonged to someone they could no longer have or not. "