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1 " I trust you as if my soul were yours. "
― Susan Dennard , Bloodwitch (The Witchlands, #3)
2 " She trusted him. She had claimed his Aether, and she would guide his blade. "
3 " People with different aims could always be pitted against one another. "
4 " From the day she had stabbed Aeduan in the heart, that heart had become hers—and she would not let this be his end. "
5 " She stole his breath now, and he had no breath to spare. "
6 " And if they underestimate you, then you're the one with all the power. "
7 " How is it,” Stix asked, “that men always seem to claim victory over the triumphs earned by women? "
8 " He was caught, like the man from the tale who wanted to feed his family during a blizzard, but could not bear to kill the lamb. In the end, everyone died of starvation, including the lamb. For Lady Fate makes all men choose eventually. Even Bloodwitches. "
9 " His thumb moved, back up her palm toward her wrist. His skin was rough. His touch was not. "
10 " He was a Bloodwitch no longer. He was a monk no longer. He was man, just a man. It would have to be enough. "
11 " But one need not be evil to become it "
12 " But there was no reason. There never had been. He was just a child, trapped in the wreckage of war. He had not done this, he had not caused this. Yet he had lost his life to it all the same. "
13 " No one asks for what life gives them "
14 " He has left you, though. And he will leave you again. Over and over, Iseult. The world will burn around you, but he will never come. "
15 " He was born a monster, he will die a monster, and monsters do not get to have friends. "
16 " But the power to cure life can also be the power to take it away. "
17 " Loss was such an abstract thing until one was pressed beneath it and forced to stare into her dead eyes. "
