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Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3) QUOTES

Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3) QUOTES

1 " He was not sure. Or at least there was no way for him to be sure. But he could not imagine that Lada would die alone and in secret. Or that she could be dead and he would not somehow know. Surely her death would be marked by something. A comet. A great hole opening in the earth. A tempest, a flood, a fire. A force such as Lada could not depart this world without leaving one last mark. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

2 " That is the thing with giving your heart. You never wait for someone to ask. You hold it out and hope they want it. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

3 " And that was why she would win in the end. Because she would offer up everything on the altar of sacrifice, so long as she kept her country. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

4 " She would walk into that tent, and she would stab her first friend, her first lover, her only true equal through the heart. She did not want to, she found. But she would do it anyway. It was what Wallachia needed, what it demanded, and Wallachia came before Mehmed. It always would. It had to. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

5 " But they were capable of greatness. Destined for it, even.”
“Then do not aim for greatness. Aim for goodness. And however you get there will be the right path for you, my sweet Radu. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

6 " Every time Radu thought he had found a place in the world, the world changed around him, and once again he was left alone. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

7 " Radu put one hand on her shoulder, felt Lada’s body contract with silent crying. “Get out,” she said again. He climbed onto the narrow bed and curled around her, holding her until she slept. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

8 " Radu had been wrong all this time. He had felt guilty for the way his heart yearned for other men. But it was not his own love that was poisonous and destructive. His love destroyed nothing, hurt no one. [...] Nazira was right. His love had no evil in it. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

9 " Being a Dracul had cost him so much. He had thought he was done paying for the blood that ran through his veins. But he would never be done. The price of being in his family was everything he held dear, taken from him over and over again. They were the dragons. The devils. There was no mercy in them or for them. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

10 " It had felt unavoidable at the time, but how many unavoidable choices of his had resulted in unforgivable consequences? "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

11 " I have tried so hard to escape this, but my path was always leading here. I took every turn I could. I found faith and God. I found a new home and country, even new tongues and a new name. But I cannot escape becoming a Dracul. The cruelty, the willingness to destroy everything else in pursuit of a goal. I know what she would do. I know what I need to do. But I do not want to do it. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

12 " That compliment is a bit like a rose. It comes with a lot of barbs and thorns. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

13 " I know your brother’s past. And I know that he can still find happiness even in the darkest of circumstances, because his faith sustains him. What sustains you?”
“The blood of my enemies. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

14 " I heard she is giving land to anyone. Can you imagine? No family name, no boyar line. She gives it to those who deserve it. So I hope she never marries. I hope she lives to be a hundred years old, breathing fire and drinking the blood of our enemies. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

15 " Wallachia was not her mother. Wallachia did not care what happened to her. And every single person who might have was either dead or trying to kill her. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

16 " She drummed her fingers on the arms of the throne, looking out at the empty room. She was not stupid enough to think men would stop trying to take it from her. They would always be there, waiting for weakness, waiting for her to fall. They wanted what she had because she had it. And one day, eventually, someone would defeat her. But until that day she would fight with tooth and nail, with all the fire and blood that had formed her into who she was. She was a dragon. She was a prince. She was a woman. It was the last that scared them most of all. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

17 " After all, fire and blood and death were nothing to a country led by a dragon. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

18 " To let you stay here until everyone has forgotten you. Until your only legacy are the lurid woodcuts and terrifying nighttime stories of the Saxons. You will fade into a monster, a myth. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

19 " Because Bogdan wanted more than she could ever give him. Because she mistrusted Stefan. Because Nicolae’s questions festered under her skin. Because Petru, young and thickheaded but hers, was dead, killed by the boyars she had then eliminated in the dining room of this very castle. Because even after all this, she knew in the blood that flowed through her veins that she could trust Radu. And because…Nicolae had been right. Lada was trying to pick a fight with Mehmed, even if she had not realized it before. She was not doing it for Wallachia. She did it for herself. For everything he had been to her. For all the ways he had failed her. She had Wallachia, and she would do everything she could to protect it, but she wanted to punish Mehmed. Kidnapping Radu—taking back the first, and the last, thing Mehmed had taken from her—might be enough to make him come to her when tens of thousands of bodies had not. Just three bodies mattered. The same three that had always mattered. Radu’s. Lada’s. And Mehmed’s. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)

20 " Lada nodded. But here, in this sweltering cell, far from her people and her land, she did not feel like a dragon. For the first time in a long time, she felt like a girl. It terrified her. Because there was nothing in the world more vulnerable to be than a girl. "

― Kiersten White , Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga, #3)