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1 " I never called you foolish," Bren says softly. "Rae." His fingers move uncertainly on his thigh, twitching toward me, then back to curl into a fist on his leg. It's the first uncertain movement I can remember him making. "
― Intisar Khanani , The Theft of Sunlight (Dauntless Path, #2)
2 " I am suddenly and deeply furious, enraged that my body should have been violated so. I have never loved it enough; I realize that now, in the face of having it so abused. My plain features and strong build are mine, just as my turned foot is, born with me and part of who I am. "
3 " Sometimes, when you think things are finished, they are only just beginning. "
4 " don’t want to be made to feel less just because my foot is turned one way instead of another. It still bears me forward every day of my life. "
5 " That’s . . . strange.” It sounds like something out of a fireside tale, believable only by the light of the flickering flames. “You’re sure the story hasn’t been blown out of proportion? "
6 " How is it possible to be both a gentleman and a monster? "
7 " She shrugs. “I don’t know if I would have chosen it, if I’d understood,” she says. “We all have ideas about how wonderful it must be to wed a lord, or live at court, or whatever. It isn’t all pretty dresses and gold. "
8 " I’ve spent a lifetime putting up with cruelty and I’m not afraid to look his viciousness in the face. "
9 " People are stupid wherever you go. That doesn't mean you should never leave home. "
10 " I believe going to court is rather like going to war: one must wear the appropriate armor, or expect to be stabbed through and trampled underfoot. "
11 " Life is always better after you've eaten a biscuit. "
12 " The queen may pretend affection for her daughter, but it’s clear she does not truly understand her. "
13 " was never at risk because snatchers take only the able-bodied. "
14 " My body feels good for the first time in a while—I’ve missed that slightly achy feeling of having engaged in hard work. And, from the look on Alyrra’s face, so has she. "
15 " Not a drop of magic in his blood,” Stonemane says. “And now I had best go, before I commit some sort of political blunder. "
16 " I do miss home. I miss my family desperately. I miss Niya's clear gray gaze, and her touches of magic in our food, and the way her hair never quite stays in it's braid. "
17 " The prospect of visiting the king’s court, being surrounded by the wealthiest families of our land and all the vaunted beauties of their lines . . . me, with neither a title nor riches nor beauty to my name? No, thank you. "
18 " And, like home, there are all different types of bodies here, tall and short, thick and thin. "
19 " I turn to find myself facing a faerie, tall and elegant, with eyes so dark they appear fathomless. I blink. The faerie remains. "
20 " One boy joined a pair of travelers who promised to help him find work in the city and then sold him to a middleman whom the brickmaker bought him from. But every one of the remaining five were snatched from the villages where they lived, hidden in false-bottom wagons and then moved to riverboats. All five lived north of the city, and were brought down the river to Tarinon. "
