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41 " -My father never taught me mercy.-And can you not learn? "
― Leigh Bardugo , The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic (Grishaverse, #0.5, 2.5, 2.6)
42 " I will love an honest monster before I swear loyalty to a treacherous king. "
43 " It was the wounds from the thicket that had proven all the sweet blossoms and starlight had been real. "
44 " The beast might shout and snarl, and he might well devour her, but he'd at least been interested enough to listen to her speak. "
45 " Do not behave as a tyrant and then tell me to scold a tyrant to behave. Show mercy and mercy you may be shown "
46 " Ulla could forgive betrayal, another abandonment, even her own death. But not this moment, when after all her sacrifice, she begged for mercy and Signy sought a prince's permission to grant it. "
47 " What gave her strength then? We cannot know for sure. That contrary thing inside her? The hard stone of rage all lonely girls possess? "
48 " I can smell your ambition like blood in the water. "
49 " But as you leave that dark gap in the trees behind, remember that to use a thing is not to own it and should you ever take a bride, listen closely to her questions. In them you may hear her true name like the thunder of a lost river, like the sighing of the sea. "
50 " I tried to reason with them, but people do not always hear the words of a beast. "
51 " Wanting is why people get up in the morning. It gives them something to dream of at night. "
52 " The sound was so ugly.Was it? Or was it just something you hadn't heard before? "
53 " You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled—not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did. "
54 " Papa, Yeva said to the duke, desperate to stand beneath an open sky again. Why must I be the one to hide? "
55 " For the briefest moment, Ulla despised Signy, as we can only hate those who rescue us from loneliness. "
56 " When the coffers are empty and their bellies growl, even good men turn bad. "
57 " - What could a river want with a mirror?- That is a question for the river. "
58 " And can you not learn? "
59 " And if it was true that the beast was happy to be spoken to, then perhaps it was also true that Ayama was glad to be heard. "
60 " Sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always the ones who do. "