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The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1) QUOTES

The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1) QUOTES

1 " I will find you.
In the farthest corner, I will find you. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

2 " It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

3 " The seed of the gift may come, but a seedling that isn't nourished dies quickly. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

4 " Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.
The wind knew. It was the first of June, but cold gusts bit at the hilltop citadelle as fiercely as deepest winter, shaking the windows with curses and winding through drafty halls with warning whispers. There was no escaping what was to come. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

5 " Snow. I wondered what it felt like. Aunt Bernette said it could be both soft and hard, cold and hot. It stung and burned when the wind pelted it through the air, and it was a gentle cold feather when it drifted down in lazy circles from the sky. I couldn't imagine it being so many things, and I wondered if she had taken license with her story as Father always claimed. I couldn't stop thinking of it.
Snow. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

6 " A perfect night... a perfect forever "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

7 " Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods…
But even the great can tremble with fear.
Even the great can fall "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

8 " Don't be afraid, child,
The stories are always there. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

9 " It made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

10 " As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

11 " Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased? "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

12 " I trust you all slept well,” I said, deliberately keeping my tone light. I returned Malich’s glare with a tight-lipped grin.

“Yes, we did,” Kaden answered quickly.

“I’m sorry to hear that. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

13 " Sometimes the smallest animal inflicts the greatest pain. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

14 " From the weakest will come strength. From the hunted will come freedom. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

15 " Duty. That was a word I hated as much as tradition. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

16 " Ancients pulled metals more precious than gold from the center of the earth - They spun into giant lacy wings that flew them to the stars and back
"Is that what you'd do with wings?"
She shook her head "No, I'd fly to the stars, but I'd never come back "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

17 " I understood monuments now. Some were built of stone and sweat, and others were built of dreams, but they were all made of the things we didn't want to forget. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

18 " I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

19 " Until one comes who is mightier,
The one sprung from misery,
The one who was weak,
The one who was hunted,
The one marked with claw and vine,
The one named in secret,
The one called Jezelia. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)

20 " Killing in the name of war was one thing. Killing one's own kin was quite another. "

― Mary E. Pearson , The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)