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“I do not understand how she can fill me with such hope and fear simultaneously. I pull her hand to my chest and lean in to her, until we share breath. My lips brush across hers.
It is barely a kiss, but she is somehow closer to me, her body a pool of warmth against mine.
I want so desperately to turn it into more, to see where this blossoming attraction will lead.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Are you prepared to die, Grey?" I demand. "Because that is all that exists at the end of this path. I am sure of it. This was never a curse to be broken. This is a death sentence. The true curse has been the thought that we might find escape.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Have you not figured it out yet? The curse torments us all.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Why should injustice, the darkness of justice, exist and not be an imperfect entry in a book unread for centuries? Until it is so forgotten, that no one remembers it was ever there.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“She was right - I have had over three hundred women to practice on. I should have known better.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“You have to survive, no matter what you have to do, no matter who you have to cheat and hurt and kill, no matter what the cost is to your heart and soul. Do you hear me, Everleigh? You have to live.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“That was the thing about numbers.
They weren't like people, who could say one thing and do another.
They weren't like riddles of social mannerisms or conversations.
Numbers never lied.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“That's what friends, that's what brethren are for. To be there, where words cannot.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“Rhen puts his hands on my arms and leans in. When he speaks, his voice is very low, very quiet, just for me. "My father is dead, my lady. My whole family is dead." He pulls back, meeting my gaze, but his voice doesn't change. "That monster killed them all.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Jealousy has a way of clouding logic.”
― Alpha Four, Far Forest Scrolls Na Cearcaill

“Someone always wanted to kill the queen.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“A woman is dead. I would hardly call that progress."

"Sure it is," she replied. "Especially since you're not the one who's dead."

I couldn't argue with that.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“The significance of each change of season is easily buried in the smallest of life’s mundanities and trivialities. Yet, the true consequence of time’s passage is there, blaring within the subtle disguise of a whisper for all who would listen.”
― Alpha Four, Far Forest Scrolls Na Cearcaill

“There are dead bodies at my feet and children whimpering in the snow. Any minute, my brain is going to catch up and I'm going to collapse into sobs.

Instead, I saw the only thing my addled mind can come up with. "Thanks.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar. Thus he came alone to Angband's gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat. And Morgoth came.”
― J.R.R Tolkien

“A man’s perspective is limited by the brevity of his existence.
Even living deliberately, how far up can we reach?
Standing on our miniscule patch of time, how far into the future can we see? How much of the past can one truly understand?

Yet, only a recreant spends their precious drops of sand before dropping back
into the abyss lounging in indulgence, not striving for understanding, knowledge,
answers that those of us
scourged/consecrated with consciousness
should seek with unconquerable passion.”
― Alpha Four, Far Forest Scrolls Na Cearcaill

“You must practice until you see everything about the entire conflict: the location of the fight, your opponents mind, body and spirit.”
― Alpha Four, Far Forest Scrolls Na Cearcaill

“Traitors always pay for their sins," I hissed.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“The queen was dead.
Again.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“Once metal hits metal and battle begins no one wishes they had practiced less!”
― Alpha Four, Far Forest Scrolls Na Cearcaill

“Erroh has a plan. A simple plan. It'll never work.”
― Robert J. Power, Spark City

“Many times
there were others on the tree
or on the ground
offering to help her climb

Some to cheer her on
some to help her climb
some to look up her skirt
some to discuss the thrill of
someone they know
being so crazy and
some who couldn't wait to see
what it was going
to look like when she fell.”
― Meek, StarChild 47

“For these are the bolt-holes of cornered Man - not to burrow or cower, not to spit or howl or chew off the limb snared, but to mend his broken bow with his own heartstrings, and ere his spark is snuffed out to fit to it and hurl forth everything at his back, be it his home and the very world he leaves.”
― Harley J. Sims, The Unsung

“Numbers never lied”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Thank you." After rounding the couch, the young queen sat her hip on the cushy armrest. Her thoughts went back to the impromptu party in the commissary the night before. “I assume no Mishmorats or Viiduns are missing. Do you know if any real mischief took place last night after we left?â€�

“None you need to worry about,� Ian told her. She could see he was hiding something by the twinkle in his eye.

“What happened?� she asked, certain he had a story to tell.

“Let’s just say there may be an influx of soldiers visiting your garden.�

Her eyes scrunched, unable to guess what he was talking about. “Okay, and why?�

Ian’s shoulders jostled with a snicker. “Efren showed off your garden to Kira last night. She discovered the warm pond. You know how your sisters have a fondness for swimming in their underclothes.�

“Oh great,� Eena groaned.

“But don’t worry about it too much, Queenie, there is a deterrent.� Ian let go a laugh he couldn’t quite stifle.

“What deterrent?� she asked, grinning at his amusement.

“Shanks likes to swim too.�

“O³ó?â€�

“Actually, he prefers skinny dipping.�

“Ew! Ew, Ian, like I need that image in my head!�

(Now you know how I feel on a regular basis,) he said, cracking up.

After a moment of grossing out, Eena all but begged Ian, “Please, can we change the subject.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul

“Only a fool would call a desert a lake, and expect it to change the amount of water.”
― Alpha Four, Far Forest Scrolls Na Cearcaill

“The most epic tales of magic, have both a beginning, and an end. Magic, itself, knows no such bounds.”
― Greg Ricker, The Ambersham: Book One Of THE LORDS OF LYNNWOOD

“How can you be a strong leader of men if you cower away from your own truth?”
― Alannah K. Pearson, Bone Arrow

“The monster made a noise which, for its pitch, it was clearly unaccustomed to making. Justinian knew it for the worst horror the mighty can know—to be stranded between death and mending, crippled rather than scarred, and trapped forever beyond the dignity of a proud stand, much less a good death.”
― Harley j. Sims, The Unsung

“A man’s perspective is limited by the brevity of his existence.
Even living deliberately, how far up can we reach?
Standing on our miniscule patch of time, how far into the future can we see? How much of the past can one truly understand?

Yet, only a recreant spends their precious drops of sand before dropping back
into the abyss lounging in indulgence, not striving for understanding, knowledge,
answers that those of us
scourged/consecrated with consciousness
should seek with unconquerable passion.

- Far Forest Scrolls Na Cearcaill”
― Alpha Four, Far Forest Scrolls Na Cearcaill