Quotes from Mary E. Pearson

Eu o interrompi, empurrando-o para que ficasse em pé de novo, com a ponta da minha espada. "Não deveria fazer diferença se eu sou uma criada de taverna ou uma princesa. Quando eu o vir tratando os outros com respeito, independentemente da posição que ocupam, ou da sua anatomia, então seu pedido de desculpas significará alguma coisa." Eu me virei para ir embora enquanto ele ainda falava, cansada porque essa era uma batalha que eu teria que lutar repetidas vezes.

You going to kill the Patrei with a spoon?

You could have shot me with an arrow. You could have done a hundred things, but instead you dangled Zane in front of me, knowing what he had done. In an instant, you brought back the horror of a night to a small child. That's what I became.

The spoon tumbled from my hand, and I fell down onto his chest, holding him, my face pressed into his neck. His arms circled around me, holding me as tight as I held him.

Right now my only plan is to kiss my wife. And I am fairly certain not even the gods can derail that.

A spare minute can send us careening down a new path and turn our lives upside down.

I'll make a life for you here, Lia. I promise.

I already told you," he whispered in my ear, "and I won't take it back. I love you, Kazi of Brightmist, and I will never stop loving you, not through a thousand tomorrows.

Because power, I had learned, could be just as seductive as a warm loaf of bread.

For a few minutes, a wish put a sword in my hand and gave me power over the grimness of our world.

Let me show you the stars.

It didn't have to be a happy beginning or a happy ending, but the middle was a feast at a banquet, a rich soapy bath, a nights rest at an inn and a full stomach, a warm chest nestled up against my back, the soft heat of lips at my nape, stories whispered in my ear.

The question of whether it was a show was swept aside, forgotten. There may have been other secrets between us, but this much was true and honest-- I wanted to be in his arms, and he wanted to be in mine.

I love you, Kazi of Brightmist, and I will never stop loving you, not through a thousand tomorrow's.

Is it asking too much to want to be loved? To look into someone's eyes and see—" Her voice cracked, and there was more silence. "And see tenderness. To know that he truly wants to be with you and share his life with you.

Loss flooded my throat. It had gripped me today with a fresh, cruel hand, reaching into my heart, tugging, reminding me of what I had lost... My mother's absence hit me in a new, bitter way, because sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had.

Then make your decision and live by it.

Kazimyrah, I would sometimes whisper to myself as I slunk away with a meal hidden beneath my coat, because there were days even I forgot who I had once been.

Prepare your hearts, for we must not only be ready for the enemy without, but also the enemy within.

Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It's calculating and cold. Especially when aimed at the one you profess to love. And if one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything

There is magic in everything, only you must watch for it. It does not come from spells or potions or the sky, nor by special delivery

The silence stretched, and I heard a chain that was no longer there, jingling. I felt Jase holding me in a river, keeping my head above the water... If he had been cruel back then, his lies now would hurt me less.

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.

Write it down, before you forget. And each day we do. But we can only write about Now. Before is already gone, except for the nightmares.