Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness
9 quotes
"Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye."
"If I had been shipped off to Dalbreck, there are valuable things I never would have learned."
"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 domination of the other two."
"You have to make your peace with Kaden, and he with you. You are not on opposite sides anymore. Do you understand?"
"Somewhere beyond all that, on an unseeable horizon, was Morrighan and all the people who lived there, going about their lives, unaware. My brothers. Pauline. Berdi. Gwyneth. And more patrols like Walther's who would meet their deaths, as unaware as I had once been. I want to go with you. Where I was going was no place for Natiya. It was hardly a place for me."
"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."
"I looked at her, unsure how to answer. Even after everything Mikael had done, every day I had to let go again. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. It was a conscious effort."
"Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.We had found it.But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing."
"Be brave, be victorious"