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1 " Amara looks at Dido, at the joy on her face, and realises there is nobody she loves more. Warmth spreads through her. She has never had a friend like Dido. She is the light in the darkness of her life. "
― Elodie Harper , The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)
2 " Either we choose to stay alive, or we give up. And if it's living we choose, then we do whatever it takes. "
3 " Tomorrow I’ll start living”, you say, Postumus: always tomorrow. Tell me, that “tomorrow”, Postumus, when’s it coming? How far off is that “tomorrow”? "
4 " She runs through the repertoire, the line between fear and anger stretched taut across her heart. "
5 " Her anger is rising like the sea, drowning her. "
6 " Suns when they sink can rise again, "
7 " For a moment, she thinks of Felix. Imagines what it must be like to have the power to act on your anger rather than bury it. "
8 " But she is always aware of the imbalance in power, and fear is her affections shadow. "
9 " She is the light in the darkness of her life. "
10 " Fit to fuck an emperor,” the hairdresser says when she’s finished. “If you’ll pardon the expression. "
11 " Though it's a loveliness shot through with fragility, like the exquisite glass statue of the godess Athena she remembers from her childhood. "
12 " Amara thinks the stones look like all the kindnesses Cressa heaped up in her life, insignificant, yet touching the people closest to her. "
13 " And it's not brave. It's stupid. Have you seen the bruises on her? Who fights a battle they're never going to win?""That's what courage means. "