I wasn’t there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass”, he says. “I was there to throw myself in front of it.
I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get me hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space.
There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn’s face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance. It robbed Phaedra of her breath.
Well, I’m not sure what suspicious looks like. Sometimes when you come down the mountain and stand behind those trees, you look suspicious.
You can’t go around feeling too much”, Captain Travanion had explained watching a moment to ensure the man was indeed dead. “Because if you feel too much, enough to want to kill them so savagely then one day you are going to feel enough to spare their lives.
I see the look on her face that says nothing can happen to her if she’s holding on to her dad. It kills me to hate them so much for having that.
I ignore Jaco Coote when I see him. I’m not sure why. It’s not as if I dislike him or anything. I think I ignore him because if I look at him I might find that he’s looking at me, and I’m not sure where that would lead us.
She told him that from this angle the treetops looked like cauliflower and she had once heard them beckon her to jump, promising her that if she did, they’d bounce her back in the air again. Some days, like today, he was petrified she’d listen to them.
The pages aren’t numbered, so I don’t know whether I have the beginning or end or whether it’s in sequence but these days I’m not really looking for continuity. All I’m after is something that makes sense to me.
I don’t get chosen for things unless there is a motive. – Ben.
Because I want to feel something other than this emotional crap.
Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage are in his soul. Just in case.
Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them in the face with it until it could be avoided no longer.
We didn’t let them do anything to us, Travanion,” Beatriss said fiercely, “They did it without out permission.
He came to understand the difference between the gods’ blessed and a smart man. His uncle was one. His father the other.
He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.
If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one’s worth came from others.
People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else.
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.