Melinda Salisbury · 336 pages
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“How could there be different Gods, Lief?"
"I don't believe there are any at all," he says quietly. "But I believe there are men and women whose lives are made easier by believing someone is watching over them.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“I am the perfect weapon, I can kill with a single touch.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“If I come to you, I want it to be because I am choosing you, for no reason other than that. I don't want for to ever doubt it.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“In the stories of old, a hero is the one who sweeps in with a drawn sword and noble face, to kill the Dragon and free the princess. In the stories of old it never seems to dawn on the princess that she should be careful not to put herself at mercy of those who would do her ill in the first place.
I don't live in the stories of old.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“A person can say a lot without speaking.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“... but for now it's too great a pleasure to stay in my own cottage, with my own books, and do exactly what I want to do.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“I am not cunning...I'm good at seeing around obstacles is all.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“That's the problem with fairy tales, they change with the telling.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“It's difficult to grieve for an idea.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“I’ve learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I’m alone and I’ve never been so content.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“I’m not free, my lady,” he says slowly. “I can no more wander off and do as I will than you can.You think of having choices like people think of flying. They see a hawk soaring and hovering and they tell themselves how nice it would be to fly. But pigeons can fly, and sparrows too. No one imagines being a sparrow though. No one wants that.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“They are blank, without conscience, without soul. I know all about souls. Before I became Daunen Embodied I was the Sin Eater’s daughter.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“No Gods in Tregellan. No Gods in Tallith. Doesn’t that tell you anything? It’s about power and control, to keep you all in line. People like the queen tell us if we don’t do as the Gods want – as she wants – then our souls are damned. Think of the amount of murder she’s committed and tell me whose soul is more likely to be damned, hers or yours?”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“But I want you,” he smiles at me. “Not just to make me a king. I’ve always wanted you. Despite it all, you are still the bride I would choose. I do choose you.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“Forgive me again.” He lifts the carafe and refreshes his goblet. “What happened to those two children who laughed at dandelion fuzz?” he says softly. “Are they gone forever, do you think?”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“I've read all of the old stories now – "Red Blood and Dirty Gold", "The Winter Witch", "The Scarlet Varulv" – and I want more. Though I want fantasy – made-up, impossible things – I don't want stories that step out of the pages and into the world around me.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“Ihr stellt Euch ein Leben, in dem man seine eigenen Entscheidungen treffen kann, vor, wie sich andere vorstellen, fliegen zu können. Sie sehen, wie ein Falke über ihnen kreist, und dann sagen sie zu sich selbst, wie schön es wäre, auch so fliegen zu können. Aber Tauben fliegen auch und Spatzen ebenfalls. Niemand wünscht sich je ein Spatz zu sein.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“My mother is a fat woman, made large from gobbling the sins of the dead, the meal prepared and served to her as if she were a queen for the day. For an Eating the mourners cover the surface of the coffin with breads and meats and ale and more, each morsel representing a sin known, or suspected, to have been committed by the deceased. She Eats it all; she has to – it’s the only way to cleanse the soul so it can ascend to the Eternal Kingdom. To not finish the meal is to condemn the soul to walk the world for ever. We’ve all heard the tales of the wraiths that haunt the West Woods because people less dedicated than my mother could not finish the Eating.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
“We’re to be married. Does it matter if I permit it?”
“To me it does, yes,” says Merek. “And I imagine you, like me, appreciate the illusion of having a choice, even when illusion is all it is.”
― Melinda Salisbury, quote from The Sin Eater’s Daughter
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“Idiotic Lord Blakley," she groused.
"And how many tmes have I said it?" said a voice. "It's 'idiotic Gareth' to you.”
― Courtney Milan, quote from Proof by Seduction
“Psalm 108 (109) 1For the End; a psalm by David.†ω O God, do not pass over my praise in silence, 2 For the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful man opened against me; They spoke against me with a deceitful tongue; 3 And they surrounded me with words of hatred, And warred against me without cause. 4 Instead of loving me, they falsely accused me, But I continued to pray; 5 So they repaid me evil for good, And hatred for my love. 6 Set a sinner over him, And let the devil stand at his right hand. 7 And when he is judged, may he go forth condemned, And let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be very few, And may a different man receive his office; 9 Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow; 10 Let his children wander about and be beggars; Let them be cast out of their houses. 11 Let the creditor search out whatever possessions he has; Let strangers plunder his labors; 12 Let there be no helper for him, Nor a compassionate one for his fatherless children; 13 Let his children be utterly destroyed; In a single generation, let his name be blotted out. 14 May the lawlessness of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, And may the sin of his mother not be blotted out; 15 Let them be continually before the Lord, And may the remembrance of them be utterly destroyed from the earth, 16 Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted a poor and needy man, And one pierced to the heart, that he might kill him. 17 And he loved cursing, and it came to him, And he did not desire blessing, so it shall be far from him. 18 So he clothed himself with cursing like a garment, And it entered like water into his bowels And like oil into his bones; 19 Let it be for him like a garment that clothes him, And like a belt that girds him continually. 20 This is the work of those who falsely accuse me before the Lord, And of those who speak evil things against my soul. 21 But You, O Lord, O Lord, deal mercifully with me for Your name's sake, For Your mercy is good. 22 Save me, for I am poor and needy, And my heart is troubled within me. 23 I was removed like a shadow when it declines; I was shaken off like the locusts. 24 My knees were weak from fasting, And my flesh was changed because of the oil. 25 And I became an object of reproach to them; They saw me; they shook their heads. 26 Help me, O Lord my God; Save me according to Your mercy; 27 Then let them know this is Your hand, And You, O Lord, did this. 28 They themselves shall curse, but You shall bless; Let those who rise up against me be put to shame, But let Your servant be glad. 29 Let those who falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, And let them be covered with their dishonor like a double cloak. 30 I will give thanks to the Lord abundantly with my mouth, And in the midst of many I will praise Him, 31 Because He stood at the right hand of a poor man, To save me from those who persecute my soul.”
― quote from The Orthodox Study Bible
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