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41 " You don’t know anything, Meira, and I’m sorry if this...is hard for you to accept, but it will happen. You wanted to matter to Winter? This is how Winter needs you. "
― Sara Raasch , Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)
42 " You’re impossible,” I growl, and rip open the book. Theron laughs and scoots a little closer to me. “Impossible, endearing. Synonyms, really. "
43 " There will always be a they in your new life, Meira. They make decisions; they mold your future. The trick is to find a way to still be you through it all. "
44 " Words made me "
45 " It’s so cold, every nerve in my body tingling with the wondrous iciness. "
46 " ...As if it’s all so easy. If it’s so easy, why don’t we talk about it more?”“It hurts too much,” Mather says. Just that simple.That makes me stop. I meet his eyes, a long, careful gaze. “Someday it won’t hurt.”The promise we refugees always make one another— We’ll be better . . . someday. "
47 " Silence is infinitely easier than talking. "
48 " Just Meira,” Theron echoes. He adjusts his arms around my back and looks across the distance between us, then nods decisively. “We’ll be all right. Together. "
49 " The library door is already open when I dash in, but the room is empty. Books line shelves three floors high, and windows just as tall let in rays of dying sunlight. Three balconies wrap above me and a grand piano stands in the center of the bottom level, but there are no people, not even a servant dusting old books in a corner. "
50 " And I had one of the guards tend to this.” Mona lifts my chakram. “It’s sharpened.” Mona is my favorite. "
51 " No matter what I want to do, no matter how well I lead or how hard I train, I won’t be able to force life into frozen fields, or cure plagues, or feed strength into soldiers like I would if I could use the conduit. The Winterians would probably rather have a cruel queen than a king with good intentions, because with a queen they at least have a chance that the magic can be used for them. It doesn’t matter what I would do with magic, because leaders are valued for the wrong things. "
52 " You matter” is all he says. "
53 " Like he’s staring at me because he wants to, not because he’s questioning himself. "
54 " I was right --skirts are inventions meant to make running harder. "
55 " We'll handle the future one thing at a time. "
56 " Summer Kingdom farthest west, Autumn next, then Winter, and finally the Spring Kingdom on the Destas Sea. "
57 " Same tall build, same golden hair, same dark-brown eyes. But this man isn’t old enough to have gray in his hair; he’s only a few years older than me, and his skin is smooth, sporting just a patch of stubble on his chin. He’s much more handsome than Noam too, not quite as harsh, like he’s more apt to sing a ballad than lead a kingdom. "
58 " White strands stream around me, some matted with sewer muck, but most tossing in the wind. A living snowstorm, a vibrant white reminder that they haven’t enslaved every Winterian. "
59 " slam onto the dusty prairie with a back-popping thud, my blade flying from my hands and vanishing into the thigh-high grass nearby. "
60 " I drop down the tower and roll on the roof, breaking into a run, the cold night air blowing me faster, the darkness and gleaming stars taking me somewhere I don’t have to feel. "