Waterfall
Quotes from the Book
Sometimes failure is the beginning of success
Be patient, child. Be calm. Be selfless. Wait for the right moment. Wait for your time. Rule with a steady hand. A steady heart.
Let love guide your, heart and everything else will fall into place.
Having something, even if in the past, is better than nothing at all.
Loving someone means risking your heart being broken. Corra said. But those moments you are together triumphs over any darkness
Love is powerful. It's not easy to shut it out once you've let it in.
I like how art captures not only the exterior, but also the feeling and the mood of the artist. Like a memory.
Small breath in, small breath out. There's a way in, and always a way out,
Then a dimple appeared on each side of his lips and his white teeth flashed. For a moment, I forgot where I was and what I was doing. There was only Varin, and that smile.
But I knew that wasn’t the real reason. I wanted Varin to break free of the cage he’d put himself in, because I couldn’t break free of mine.
Sometimes we fail because we're not meant to succeed.
But how do you force your parents, the people who have loved you, raised you and sheltered you your entire life, to give up on you? ... You turn into the darkness. You show them you are beyond their reach. Beyond saving.
A life where he could paint words of love on the walls of their house to the tune of Stessa's songs.
Loving someone means risking your heart being broken," Corra said. "But those moments you are together triumph over any hardship.
She knew Archia could easily be perceived as the least formidable of all the quadrants, as Archians mostly kept to themselves, rarely crossing the channel to the main land due to their general distrust for machinery. They focused on physical work and living good, if somewhat modest, lives.
How did people kiss strangers with such abandon? Kiss without care? How could they do something this intimate, this revealing, with someone they didn't want?" -Keralie
Love is powerful. It's not easy to shut out once you've let it in" -Stessa
And you believe memories are enough ti sustain us?" he asked. "Through the darkness?" Were happy memories enough, if you were never to experience them again? I hoped so.
Sometimes failure is the beginning of success" -Varin
Loving someone means risking your heart being broken,” Corra said. “But those moments you are together triumph over any hardship.
As the chips dissolved on my tong, the embedded video links travelled to my brain. Tapping into my synopsis and taking hold of my senses. They transported me to another time and place. I was no longer in Mackiel's office. I was in the palace. And I was covered in blood.
Dream bigger,” he’d said. “Want more. Don’t ask. Take it.
Sometimes we fail because we are not meant to succeed.' 'Sometimes failure is the beginning of success.
Once Arebella started asking questions, and received answers, she wouldn’t stop. Know everything, and you shall know all—a popular saying in Toria. And Arebella wanted to know all.
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About Astrid Scholte
About the book
Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but in fact, she's one of Quadara's most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara's most enlightened region, Eonia. Varin runs afoul of Keralie when she steals a package from him, putting his life in danger. When Varin attempts to retrieve the package, he and Keralie find themselves entangled in a conspiracy that leaves all four of Quadara's queens dead.
With no other choices and on the run from Keralie's former employer, the two decide to join forces, endeavoring to discover who has killed the queens and save their own lives in the process. When their reluctant partnership blooms into a tenuous romance, they must overcome their own dark secrets in hopes of a future together that seemed impossible just days before. But first they have to stay alive and untangle the secrets
Book details
- First published
- 2019
- Author
- Astrid Scholte
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Goodreads rating
- 3.80 (28k ratings)
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