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1 " I don't like being your chess piece.""Everyone is someone else's pawn, Mare. whether we know it or not. "
― Victoria Aveyard , War Storm (Red Queen, #4)
2 " I am different from what my world demands I be. And I am not worse for it. "
3 " I wold never call loving someone else a weakness. I think living without love at all, any kind of love, is weakness. And the worst kind of darkness. "
4 " His face turns to stone again, his eyes narrowed and icy, doing all they can to ignore what his heart wants to feel. "
5 " Break his crown, break his throne, rip his monarchy apart.” I stare up at her with as much strength as I can muster. The lightning in my blood responds with fervor, begging to crack loose. “But Tiberias lives. "
6 " Strange that she is both the anchor against the storm and the storm itself. "
7 " Not all crowns are worn where people can see. "
8 " Our paths may be horrible, but they're the paths we made for ourselves. "
9 " And somehow everyone calls me a monster. "
10 " I am well accustomed to darkness by now. What's a few more miles?Nothing at all.I've always felt darkness all over me, stubborn as a stain. It follows wherever I go. "
11 " I ache for my ability the way I ache for Mare, for Thomas, for who I was supposed to be. "
12 " It sets something off in Maven. He jumps out of reach, keeping his distance from all of us. The twitching returns in force, but his eyes blaze, all fire. No fear."You think I can't lie through pain," he snarls, his voice thundering through the room. "You think I haven't done it a thousand times?"...For a brief, empty moment I see nothing but darkness, and I try not to think of Maven. His words. What his life was and continues to be. "
13 " My heart leaps in my chest when her feet slide. Moving sideways. Not closer, not farther. Now it's her turn to prowl. Even though she's only walking, it feels like a dance. I mirror her movements, stepping with her. She's more graceful than I am, a lithe thief born of many years and many twists of fate. ...The sparks reflect in her eyes. They shudder from brown to purple, giving her an unearthly look, like her gaze might run me through.Part of me wishes she would. "
14 " She wasn’t enough for me either. Enough to make me change, to pull me back from what I’ve willingly become. I wonder if Thomas would have been enough. "
15 " He must be blessed, by someone or something. My only consolation is knowing I'm right about him, and always will be. "
16 " He loved the crown before he loved me, whether he knows it or not "
17 " I think living without love, any kind of love is weakness, and the worst kind of darkness. "
18 " Love can be exploited, I guess, used to manipulate. It's leverage. But I would never call loving someone else a weakness. I think living without love at all, any kind of love, is weakness. And the worst kind of darkness. "
19 " To rise. And rise alone. "
20 " But there's always something left to be broken. "
