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1 " People do not play this game to win, my dear. They play this game not to lose. "
― Amanda Foody , Ace of Shades (The Shadow Game, #1)
2 " And he would tell her that, even after losing everything he'd ever wanted, he still desperately wanted her. "
3 " She was a pistol wrapped up in silk. She was a blade disguised as a girl. "
4 " Sometimes we're not who we want to be because we're supposed to be something else. "
5 " She was the girl who’d come afraid to the city that could smell your fear. She’d faced the witch. She’d poisoned the wolf. She’d strolled into the land of death with her head held high and left it a lord. She was an impossible player in a fixed game, the only person not playing to win. "
6 " Are you a pearl, or are you a bullet? "
7 " Now, as she held her breath and desperately searched the faces of strangers around her, she felt that she was more broken than not. One exhale, one sob, and all her pieces would shatter. "
8 " You’ll be a weapon to whoever owns you.” “I’m just a girl,” Enne countered. “And no one owns me. "
9 " f you want something, you should let yourself have it. "
10 " Now, she was poisoning him for the girls who hadn’t known better. For all the girls fed to the wolves. "
11 " Sometimes we’re not who we want to be because we’re supposed to be something else, "
12 " Desire fame, and the city will make you a tragedy. "
13 " Look at all the places the author says not to visit. Hundreds! We’ll have to go on a tour. "
14 " What do I look like?” she asked. Jac grinned. “Like a Sinner. "
15 " Her guidebook had been wrong about one thing: the most dangerous part of the City of Sin wasn't the beckoning of the card tables or the threat of the gangs, it was the allure of Levi Glaisyer's roguish smile, "
16 " She rooted around her pocket, pulling out a tube of lipstick, the gun and the silk mask, All the girlie necessities, apparently. "
17 " She'd walked into the Deadman District and emerged a lord. She carried poison in one pocket and a gun in the other.She was a blade disguised as a girl. "
18 " I'm stronger than you think," Jac grumbled."But not as strong as you think." Levi grabbed Jac by the jaw and opened his mouth. "That's a nice missing tooth. "
19 " Jac inspected the cigar, clearly decided he no longer wanted it, and offered it to Enne."What do I look like?" she asked.Jac grinned. "Like a Sinner. "
20 " We'll get mugged walking around with a map. That tourist nonsense is an affront to everything I stand for.""What do you stand for? Bravado?""Obviously. "
