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He knew the law of such things: people in brightly lit places cannot see into the dark.
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Nothing in dreams can hurt you, her father had said - which was another way of saying that life can.
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You can't see both sides of one coin at once, can you, child? The god of money always keeps a secret.The god of money was also the god of spies. — Marie Rutkoski
I wish I could teach you how to live happily ever after, Petra," she said, "but that is something you will have to learn on your own.
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If you would like to know how easy it is to overlook evil, Petra could tell you: it is the easiest thing in the world.
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You don't, Kestrel, even though the god of lies loves you.
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You will be lonely, but you'll become strong.
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Arin would trade his heart for a snarled knot of thread if it meant he would never have to see Kestrel again.
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She was learning to live around it.
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You are your own best weapon. Kestrel
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She would never give him her dagger. "I tried so hard to live in your world," she told him. "Now it's your turn to live in mine.
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Truth was like an exploding star: violent, glitteringly beautiful. Now that I had seen it, felt it, it was impossible to settle for anything less.
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In his mind, he said, Tell me what you want. And she said, Leave this city. She said, Take me with you.
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Sometimes you think you want something," Arin told him, "when in reality you need to let it go.
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Kestrel had bought a life, and loved it, and sold it.
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The truth can deceive as well as a lie.
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I agree," Arin said, "under one condition. You mentioned emissaries. There will be one emissary from the empire. It will be you.
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She'd wanted to put her fear inside a white box and give it to Arin. You, too, she would tell him. I fear for you. I fear for me if I lost you.
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Temptation was the color white. It was black ink, quivering at the point of a pen's nib.
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Sometimes when the god is vexed or simply bored, she decides that the most beautiful thing is disaster.
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His dark head bowed, became lost in its own shadow.
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The world went luscious, and slow, and still.
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She entered Roshar's tent. "I need your help." Blinking, he propped himself up on his bed. He said groggily, "And I need a real door. With a lock.
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Innocent? Her? Never.
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She'd felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.
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Here." He jerked at Arin's armor and began unbuckling it. "Stop bleeding. Oh, just look at you. Arin, you're a mess.
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The gods used to walk among us.True, said death.
Why did you leave?
Ah, sweet child, it was your people who left us. — Marie Rutkoski
Part of privilege is not having to look at ugly things.
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Cold without, color within. This was how it had been.
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It occured to him that he might have to grow comfortable with happiness, because it might not abandon him this time.
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Little Fists, what's wrong?
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Please understand. When I look at you as if you're crazy, it's not that I judge you for your insanity.
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You haven't asked me about Arin," Roshar said as he rode alongside him."What?"
"The tiger. Not the surly human. — Marie Rutkoski
I told her that I belong to you, and no other.
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It's easier to break something than create it.
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It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.
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It was the kind of knowledge that, once it enters you, seems like it's lived there forever.
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Now I'm getting sad, just thinking about how it would feel to be parted from my sweet self. Lucky me: I will always have my own company.
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The house burst into being. It
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Her fierce creature of a mind: sleek and sharp-clawed and utterly unwilling to be caught.
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So you give me nothing.""When have I ever given you anything?"
Softly, Arin said, "You gave me much, once. — Marie Rutkoski
Arin, who had set hooks into her heart and drawn her to him so that she wouldn't see anything but his eyes.Arin was her enemy — Marie Rutkoski
I won't play you because even when I win, I lose. It's never been just a game between us.
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Couldn't tell if the truth looked like a lie, or a lie the truth.
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People in brightly lit places can't see into the dark.
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Go away, little ghost. Go haunt someone else.
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husk of a vanished person.
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I want better choices.""Then we must make a world that has them. — Marie Rutkoski
Arin's god slapped him across the face. Pay attention, death demanded. Arin did, and after that, no one could touch him. When
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Kestrel could read an expression as if looking through shifting water to see the grainy bottom, the silt rising or settling, the dart of a fish.
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You think you see the truth because people let you believe it. If you accuse a Herrani of a lie, do you think he will dare deny it?
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A lover? Maybe. Something tender, anyway. But tender like a bruise.
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A window is just a window. Colored glass: mere glass. But in the sun it becomes more. She would show him, and say, love should do this.
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He wondered if he, too, was tempted by cunning. Maybe he was drawn as well to the biggest gamble.
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Lucas," his sister scolded. "Stop staring at the pretty inferno. Introduce yourself to our guests.
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You are important to me, she said, and touched his face. Important. The word swelled and deflated. More than he'd thought. Less than he wanted.
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You might not think of me as your friend,' Kestrel told Arin, 'but I think of you as mine.
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Yet he understood that there are some things you feel and others that you choose to feel, and that the choice doesn't make the feeling less valid.
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When you're a stranger to people you care about, you become a stranger to yourself.
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Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her,
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I don't mind being a moth. I would probably start eating silk if it meant that I could fly.
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My soul is yours," he said. "You know that it is.
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What could you say about someone who walked daily into his grief and lived at the bottom of its hole and didn't even want to come out?
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Stories will get you killed.
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Nothing in dreams can hurt you.
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Yes, stop playing, Kestrel, she told herself. Clear the bets, clear the table. Walk away from the game. Now.
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Let the morning keep what belongs to the morning,
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My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.
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The general's daughter? We'd be fools not to. You talk about her as if she's made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.
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When she saw the opportunity to flee, she would take it. She would bring the hounds of the empire howling down on this city.
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He struggled, knuckled his eyes, and let the words come. I want you to be mine, wholly mine, your heart, too. I want you to feel the same way.
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It made him wonder which pain was greater: to give up something precious, or to see it taken away.
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Arin smiled. It was a true smile, which let her know that all the others he had given her were not.
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Arin thought of Cheat, Tensen, Kestrel. He wondered if some part of him was drawn to lies. What was it that made him so easy to deceive?
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He'd believed it. She couldn't believe that he believed it. Sometimes, she hated him for that.
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Once, he'd hated her for it. Then it had somehow touched him. He knew it himself. he, too, felt how the heart chooses its own home and refuses reason.
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No, Arin. Sit down. Other wise you'll make an ass out of yourself, and that role is mine.
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The sky was a feather blanket of clouds, save for one blue hole in the fabric. A blue cloud in a white sky.
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He hadn't been blessed by the god of death.Arin was the god. — Marie Rutkoski
I'm going to miss you when I wake up.
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It was the horror of someone who'd been dealt a winning hand, had bet her life on the game, and then proceeded (deliberately?) to lose.
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But we don't think too well when we want too much.
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Your promises are worth nothing.
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She focused on that nothingness, imagined it as ink spilling over everything she could possibly think or feel.
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Before - for years - she had let her mind close seamlessly, like an egg, around this wrong and other wrongs.
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Gorgeous?" Ronan tried again. "Transcendent? Kestrel, the right adjective hasn't been invented to describe you.
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In war, her father sometimes said, you might live, you might die. But if you panic, death is the only outcome.
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