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A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4) QUOTES

A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4) QUOTES

1 " Learning to protect yourself isn't violent,' he countered. 'Being unable to defend yourself and dying because you're useless or too scared to move - that's violent. We have to fight to stay alive in this world. It's not easy inside or outside the Kingdom. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

2 " He's already frightened them,' he murmured. 'He frightens them because he refuses to die and people know that. People remember those meant to die who don't. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

3 " I spend more time with Ronny than he does. She wants to learn how to fight. She wants to be strong. She's seen death and she's not scared. We shouldn't teach her to be scared. We should teach her that monsters can be fought and monsters can die, and the only thing she should be scared of is not fighting back. How am I wrong to say that? "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

4 " I did survive. I survived and lived and have spent the past year thinking about all the things that I haven't had a chance to do. You don't think about the future when you're running, but idleness brings dreams back. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

5 " Tove leaned back on her hands. 'I don't think I'll ever forget the last time I saw Evander. They took you away and Nate kept screaming. But Evander was so quiet. He was always so calm, my brother. He smiled at Zoe and she stopped struggling, and then he looked at me.' Tove's voice broke and she had to clear her throat before continuing. 'He told me that no matter what became of us, it was going to be all right. In this world he would have us, and in the next he would have Sylvia, Gretchen and our parents. "Don't be afraid." That's what he said. "love outlasts pain. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

6 " Sorry,' she mumbled, wiping her eyes.
'Don't ever apologise for crying,' he whispered. 'Or for caring. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

7 " Some things experienced under duress could never be shared or explained. She would never know just what horrors Nate has gone through in Redwater, or what Thom had experienced in the Red Arena or at the hands of Quen. She didn't want to. If they wanted to share, she'd listen, but she didn't yearn to know more horror. Whether she was scared that talking about it made it too real, or she thought the idea too impossibly horrible to Impart, or whether it was shame and hatred, Kitty could not find the words to relay what had happened in Timberview Palace. Quen and the cannibalism frightened her far less than the memories of Gabriel, which kept her forever feeling as if there was not enough space between their camp and Franklin's Wall. Death did not seem a secure enough holding cell for his soul. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

8 " She wished Evander was still with them. He had felt like a long-lost brother and had seemed so wise and sensible. He had been calculating and shrewd like Thom, but he had Nate's fire and rage. She found she wanted a brother more than she wanted most other things. Someone to protect her without wanting anything from her. Who knew her inside and out and did not judge her for being weak or cruel or sad or bitter. She envied siblings their closeness. She envied Nate and Thom most of all. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

9 " Not very long ago at all, the thought of killing and bloodshed would have horrified her. She had been appalled at Nate's constant fighting, at his random turns to violence. Killing had seemed so beneath them, something for the authorities to deal with out of sight of innocent eyes. Now she felt a growing hunger to tear and destroy. The problem was she didn't know if she could. She'd always wanted help. But she was tired of asking for help. Tired of hesitating. And still much, much too scared to do anything about either. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

10 " Evil men are not just soldiers,' the continued, much more heavily now, as if rebellion now ate his spirit where once it had filled him with fire. 'Evil men are all over. If it wasn't enough to endure torture myself, I now know that my brother has. Kitty has. We have all been scarred and disfigured by Cutta. That's why I won't join you. We are not obligated to save everyone. We're obligated only to ourselves. I gave my soul to Cutta once. I was raped and tortured and sterilised for it. Never again. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

11 " They never spoke about what haunted them, but then, they'd never needed to fill the space between them with words. They fell apart in silence, but they fell apart together. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

12 " No, I was ignorant of many things,' he said. 'We cannot keep comparing one side to the other if we are ever to have peace. We must think of ourselves as the same. We are all children of the Earth and we all belong here. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

13 " Nature didn't make her feel unclean the way so many things within the Kingdom did. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

14 " Thom gazed at the water for a few minutes before replying. 'I think Nate means it when he says that you are the only person for him in the world,' he allowed. 'He feels everything so strongly, so completely. He could never move on from you. I, on the other hand, am not my brother. I have to be able to choose when to keep someone and when to let them go. There is only one person in my life who does not fit into that mould, and he is the precise reason it is necessary. I will never put myself in a position where I have to pick someone over Nate. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

15 " Yet later that night, as Kitty watched Nate throw pumpkin seeds into Thom's hair with glee, she realised why Charles felt such fear over their bond. There was no limit to their love. Good or ill. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

16 " Riddle nodded. 'My father told him. He wasn't kind about it and I think it served to drive Quen to extremes. Perhaps out of anger. Perhaps not. Blood doesn't make a man, but sometimes darkness that seems predestined is easier to embrace.'
'If darkness were predestined, Nate, Thom and I are in for a delightful surprise. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)

17 " After all, the Hangman loved his daughter. "

― Rebecca Crunden , A Dance of Lies (The Outlands Pentalogy #4)