Quotes from Mary E. Pearson

This is the true treasure. Get them there. It's up to you now. Protect them.

You will have to do worse things to survive. Sometimes you must kill.

I wondered what it would be like to have someone who knew me so well, someone who would look right into my soul, someone whose very touch sent all other thoughts from my mind. I tried to imagine someone who hungered for the same things I did and wanted to spend the rest of his life with me, and not because it fulfilled a loveless agreement on paper.

If ever there were three mismatched riders, it was us-the crown prince of Dalbreck, the Assassin of Venda, and the fugitive princess of Morrighan. Sons and Daughter of three kingdoms each bent on the domination of the other two.

I slipped beneath the water, scrubbing my scalp, wishing hot water could wash away not just dirt, but these past days too.

Because if I could believe in tomorrow or the next day, maybe that would give the magic time to come true.

For a nation that despises royalty, he seems eager to flaunt it." "There are many ways to feed people.

But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time … even our own tears." She

The thing about a mark is they've created lies in their head, a story they've invented that they desperately want to believe, a fantasy that merely needs to be fed.

I gave you a chance. I gave you every chance.

Sometimes dreams are only dreams, Synové

No one disobeyed his commands. He could silence the devil with a whisper.

Write it down, he had told me. Write down every word one you get there, Before the truth is forgotten And now we do, at least the parts we remember.

I'm guessing they planned to kill your whole family once you gave them everything they needed.

I have no mouth, but my hunger is fed, With glimpse, and touch, and kindness said. I have no eyes, but see a soul, The only one that makes me whole. I swell beneath a soldier's palm, Its touch my breath, my blood, my calm. I am utterly lost, but completely found, Captured, taken … a prisoner bound.

We were alone, we had each other, and we had a whole wilderness ahead of us.

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.

We're all going to die.

Tell me a middle, Kazi~

Freedoms are never won once and for all, Kazimyrah. They come and go, like the centuries. I cannot grow lazy. Memories are short. It is the forgetting that I fear." That was what I feared too. Forgetting.

Synové's brows pulled down defensively. "When opportunity knocks, you don't go punching it in the face.

You must be every bit as careful and cunning, and above all, you must use every ounce of patience you possess. You must not be reckless with your own life nor with those who are with you. This beast will turn and kill you.

And I knew patience was the dividing line between success and failure.

I have to face them sooner or later.