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Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2) QUOTES

Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2) QUOTES

1 " I think if you had been born a boy, perhaps you would have been satisfied with what the world offered you. That is how we are alike. We saw everything that was not ours, and we hungered. Do not lose that hunger. You will always have to fight for everything. Even when you already have it, you will have to keep fighting to maintain it. You will have to be more ruthless, more brutal, more everything. Any weakness will undo everything you have accomplished. They will see any crack as evidence that they were right that a woman cannot do what you do. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

2 " I do not take orders from women.”
“My men do not have a similar problem.” Lada lifted a hand. The man fell, a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

3 " They are soldiers. They depend upon routine, and anything out of the ordinary will give them pause. And they are men. They hate to be insulted, but they love to hear others mocked. And they are fools, because they cannot imagine that a woman alone in the woods would be a threat. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

4 " I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

5 " Halil snorted. "If you have courage, I am a donkey."

"That has always been my personal opinion of you, but I never expected you to agree with me. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

6 " He would die on the wall tonight, between his brothers and his enemies, because he could no longer distinguish between the two. They had finally come to the end. Whichever side won, neither would triumph. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

7 " I do not know how to live in a world where everyone is right and everyone is wrong. Constantine was a good man, and he was also a fool who threw away the lives of his people. I have loved Mehmed with everything I am since I was a child, and I have longed to enter this city triumphant with him. But now that we are here, I cannot look at him without hearing the cries of the dying, without seeing the blood on my hands. Nazira and I—we ate and dreamed and walked and bled with these people. And now they are gone, and my people are here, but I do not know who I am anymore. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

8 " I have met your sister, and I have met Mehmed. They love themselves and their ambition above all else. They love what feeds their ambition, and when it stops feeding that, the love will turn to hate with more passion than either could ever love with. You love with all your heart, Radu, and deserve someone who can answer that with all of theirs. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

9 " He respected them, and he hated them, and he knew the world would be lesser for their deaths. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

10 " He had imagined Constantinople, had wanted it for Mehmed. It had been simple and straightforward. But now he knew the true cost of things, the murky horrors of the distance between wanting something and getting it. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

11 " Today, he saw the true cost of two men’s immovable wills. He saw what happened when men were forced to fight each other for months on end. It was not merely sickness of the body that plagued sieges, but sickness of the soul that turned men into monsters. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

12 " Perhaps, looking out over it, Mehmed saw what the beginning of his legacy would eventually lead to. Whatever Mehmed did, whatever he built, the greatest city in the world was irrefutable evidence that all things died. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

13 " It was wrong, this weighing and measuring lives as though they were coins that could be spent or saved. He longed to be free of it all, to live among men seeing everyone as his brother, to view no one as his enemy. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

14 " What, then, was left to her? She had no allies. She had no throne. She had no Mehmed, no Radu. She had only these sharp men and sharp knives and sharp dreams, and no way to make use of any of them. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

15 " What has he shat out on this page? "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

16 " Hold hands with the devil until you are both over the bridge.
Or kill the devil and burn the bridge so no one can get to you. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

17 " The world will destroy her in the end. Too much spark leads to explosions. But your sister will destroy as much as she can before she goes out. She will go down in flames and blood. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

18 " No one will be more brutal than me. No one will be more ruthless. And I will never stop fighting. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

19 " Why must I always be a man's servant?" Lada demanded. "If anything, I should be partners with the devil, not his servant. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)

20 " Wallachia needs you, and you deserve Wallachia. Let your loyalty be only where your heart is. Everything else can fall by the road and be trodden underfoot as we pass to our home. My fierce little girl. You can do anything. "

― Kiersten White , Now I Rise (The Conqueror's Saga, #2)