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121 " Whatever I am, she thought, pressing her hand to the wall, let it be enough. "
― V.E. Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)
122 " Delilah Bard had a way of finding trouble. She’d always thought it was better than letting trouble find her, but floating in the ocean in a two-person skiff with no oars, no view of land, and no real resources save the ropes binding her wrists, she was beginning to reconsider. The "
123 " You’re not listening,” he said, exasperated. “No,” she snapped. “You’re not.” She licked the blood from her lips. “I don’t need saving. "
124 " Let them think what they want was a thought that visited him with far less frequency and force than They see you as a monster. "
125 " Me?” she said, pushing open the doors. “I’d choose clever. "
126 " Would see. Hope, faith, change: these were fragile things, and they had to be tended. "
127 " The world is neither fair nor right, but it has a way of balancing itself. Magic teaches us that much. But I want you to promise "
128 " Dangerous. Reckless. Foolish. Mad. The words were beginning to feel more like badges of pride than blows. Downstairs, "
129 " Politics is a dance until the moment it becomes a war. "
130 " Magic is tangled, so you must be smooth.Magic is wild, so you must be tame.Magic is chaos, so you must be calm.Are you calm, Kell? "
131 " They crashed into each other as if propelled by gravity, and he didn’t know which of them was the object and which the earth, only that they were colliding. "
132 " That was the hardest part of being plunged into a world where magic is possible. It made you wonder if everything was. "
133 " People either stole to stay alive or to feel alive. She had to imagine that they ran away for the same reasons. Lila "
134 " To clever plans,' said Kell, toasting his brother. 'And dashing princes.''To masked magicians,' said Rhy, swiping the wine.'To mad ideas.''To the Essen Tasch.''Wouldn't it be amazing,' murmured Rhy later, when the bottle was empty, 'if we got away with it? "
135 " The ability comes naturally,” replied Kell. “The proficiency takes work. Just as I explained during every one of your lessons.” The "
136 " little do these people know I am just a pawn" spat Kell "
137 " You told me once,” said Kell, “that you were either magic’s master or its slave. So which are you now?”The screaming died in Holland’s head, smothered by the hollow quiet he’d trained to take its place.“That’s what you don’t understand,” said Holland, letting the emptiness fold over him. “I have only ever been its slave. "
138 " He kissed her until the cold night fell away and his whole body sang with heat. "
139 " You almost died, Kell. So now you know what it feels like to live. To fear for that life. To fight for it. And once you know, well, there’s no going back.” His "
140 " Being put in a box in the ground was bad enough, but being entombed like this, with layers of stone between you and the world? Kell would never understand the way these Grey-worlders sealed away their dead, trapping the discarded shells in gold and wood and stone as if some remnant of who they’d been in life remained. And if it did? What a cruel punishment. "