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The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1) QUOTES

The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1) QUOTES

1 " Then, still holding the cup, Touraine giggled. This broad-shouldered, muscle-bound ex-soldier, who spent most of her time either glowering or bowing at people, had smirked at her future queen, and now she was actually giggling. Sky above, Luca wanted to do right by that laugh. She wanted Touraine to giggle at her, to smirk and smile and tease her. She hated to want it. "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

2 " As it whistles through the mountains, as it tickles blades of grass, as it pulls me from my bed, again, the wind, it cries your name. "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

3 " You don't find a life. You have to make one, with the people around you and the causes you put your strength into. "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

4 " „What do you want me to do, Touraine?” Luca gestured in the direction of Cantic's office. „Tell Cantic to never let them fight again?”
„That's the problem, Luca.” Touraine gestured through the sandstone walls at Cantic's office and toward the city, too. Her eyes burned, and all of Cheminade's old junk blurred. Her voice came out hoarse, barely above a whisper. „It's not a matter of let. They never chose this. They're not getting rewarded for valor with ribbons and raises. We just die, and when we die, we're not even worth the wood to burn us. "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

5 " She was here because she was a soldier. A fighter. She didn't know anything else, and she was good at it...It would be the death of her, but she'd always expected that. "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

6 " Know a person's desires, and you have leverage- Give a person their desires, and you have an extension of your own will "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

7 " They took each other in one last time. The moment seemed to stretch, until Jaghotai held out her forearm. Touraine clasped it.
„We pray for rain,” Touraine said.
„No.” Jaghotai squeezed Touraine's arm tightly. „Be the rain.”
The rebels descended on the compound like a summer storm. "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

8 " Touraine was starting to think it was impossible to come from one land and learn to live in another and feel whole. That you would always stand on shaky, hole-ridden ground, half of your identity dug out of you and tossed away. "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

9 " There were moments that defined empires, that determined how a reign would be remembered. Luca would look back on this day, years later, and know that this was one such moment. "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

10 " Who needs a god of oceans when I could drown inside your eyes? Who needs a god of grain when I could feast between your thighs? "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

11 " Time to play the role, then. To gather all the pieces to her and see how she could make them move. "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

12 " What is war if not a complicated web of mathematics and charm? Luca thought. "

― C.L. Clark , The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)