Quotes from Kiersten White, And I Darken

So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?

What would you sacrifice for power?

Religion was a means to an end. She had seen it wielded as a weapon. If she needed to use it, she would, but she would never allow herself to be used by it.

People respond to kindness. They trust a smile more than a promise that you will leave them choking on their own blood.

Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. Because the pain of you is one I cannot bear

Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing

Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country.

Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. "Nothing holds me here.

Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.

The price of living seems to always be death.

You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tipout of our favor?"She had no answer.