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Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2) QUOTES

Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2) QUOTES

1 " Truth is dangerous. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

2 " Arjuro made a scoffing sound. ‘You think Lumatere will invade because of you? Are you that important?’

Froi looked away. ‘Isaboe would invade if you kidnapped a servant, let alone a friend.’

‘Isaboe? We’re on first-name terms with the Queen of Lumatere, are we?’ Gargarin asked.

Froi found himself bristling. ‘What? Do you think I’m some cutthroat for hire who they found hanging around the palace walls with the words “I want
to kill a Charynite King” tattooed on my arse? "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

3 " When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

4 " He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

5 " There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

6 " I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

7 " I still wake with your name on my lips every morning. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

8 " You can't go around feeling too much. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

9 " I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said.
Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked.
'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth.
And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

10 " If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

11 " He took her face in his bloody hands. 'I'll come and find you wherever you are. I'll not stop breathing until I do. So you're going to have to promise me that you won’t lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive.'

He tried to wipe her tears, but there were too many.

'I heard your song the moment we were born," she sobbed. "And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.'

She pressed cold lips against his and they tasted the salt of each other's tears.

'Are you ready?' he asked.

She nodded.

'Run! "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

12 " You can't go around feeling too much", Captain Travanion had explained watching a moment to ensure the man was indeed dead. "Because if you feel too much, enough to want to kill them so savagely then one day you are going to feel enough to spare their lives. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

13 " He took her face in his bloody hands. "I’ll come and find you wherever you are. I’ll not stop breathing until I do. So you’re going to have to promise me that you won’t lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

14 " Near the window, Finnikin stood with both hands against the wall, his head bent over her. As always, the intimacy between them made Froi ache.

"I promise you," Finnikin said. "I've already shouted at her and used a very, very reprimanding tone."

"I was quivering," the Queen said, stepping out from behind Finnikin. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

15 " Is your queen what you are searching for in a woman, Froi?"

"I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt laying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her."

"Oh, too profound, my friend. Much too profound. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

16 " A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess. In the real world, it's called courting. You let a lad kiss you and then you offer him more.’

‘Let me tell you something, Olivier,’ she said with tears of sorrow in her eyes, ‘this is my real world. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

17 " If he goes for my nose again, I fink I'll hang him up by his little balls,' one of the Guard said, getting to his feet. Froi tried to ignore the mockery.

'Nothing little about me,' he grunted. 'Don't take my word for it, Hindley. Ask your wife. She seemed happy last night, you know, with the size and all. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

18 " I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

19 " Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

20 " Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm. "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)