“Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.'
-Marielle”
“You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything.”
“What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?”
“This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.”
“I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp”
“I love you,” he whispered. “If you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.”
“I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it’s just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.”
“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
“They made you how they need you. They built you with all they know, and love—and so they can’t see what you’re not: all the gaps you feel leave you vulnerable. All the new possibilities only imagined by your generation, and nonexistent to theirs. They have done their best, with the technology they had to hand at the time—but now it’s up to you, small, brave future, to do your best with what you have.”
“I have found that people never love the way they say they do. They can't. They are just people. Full of lies and sentiment and fear.”
“She’d inherited Eli’s old phone and often got texts meant for him. One night, that senior girl who always talked about ballet and wore leotards and jeans to school texted twenty-four times. One of the texts had said—Deenie never forgot it—MY PUSSY ACHES FOR U. It had to have been the worst thing she’d ever read. She’d read it over and over before deleting it.”
“You need to ratchet down the crazy town.”
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