Quotes from Mary E. Pearson

Every one of my tomorrows is yours.

The thought weaves into her unexpectedly, as so many thoughts do, time again. How do you make the remembering stop?

They placed me on a pedestal from the day I was born! What choice did I have but to be perfect!

Now I understood why Sven preferred soldiering to love. It was easier to understand and far less likely to get you killed. I

My own feelings had become a thorny riddle for which I had no answer.

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.

This was something I'd never been trained for. There were no military strategies or drills to prepare me for the daily torment of not killing someone.

The scrutiny was smothering. Right now it seemed that being Vendan within these outpost walls was preferable to being the impudent royal who had abandoned their precious prince at the altar.

He was a man, not a monster, as you imagine. He died the way all men die, one breath at a time.

I know what it feels like to have my choices taken away. I pray no daughter of your kingdom will ever have to fight for her voice to be heard as I have had to do

Dragons eventually wake and crawl from their dark dens.

It was as if no one noticed my strengths or interests. I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold... The last few years, I hadn't measured up in any way, and the more they pushed, molded, and silenced me, the more I wanted to be heard.

The Komizar rages with enough venom to make your general look like a whimpering kitten.

Sometimes winning is not only a matter of knowing the rules, but of making your opponent think he knows them better.

But I would always see her. Until I drew my last breath, it would always be her face I saw when I closed my eyes at night, and her face again when I woke each morning. I would force myself to forget the last words I heard from her lips. I would remember others. I love you, Jafir de Aldrid. Words that, now, I was sure I had never deserved. I

The queen once told me there were a hundred ways to fall in love. Maybe there were a hundred ways to find and give forgiveness too. I think I had already found a few of them.

I shan't make a fuss over the babe's father.

Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away. When nothings left, maybe you can reach for something that no one knew existed. Or maybe we became something new. Maybe we made it exist.

Sometimes we're all pushed to do things we thought we could never do

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

Of course you did." I took a step closer. "You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're skills helped saved Rafe's and my lives, for which I'll always be indebted to you. But there are other kinds of strength too. Quiet, gentle ones that are just as valuable, even if you don't entirely understand them.

Being like everyone else is highly overrated.

There are always choices. Some choices are just not easy to make.