39 Quotes by Alaya Dawn Johnson

A good rival is almost like a friend, isn’t she? You make me try harder.

I open my mouth – to scream, I think, or maybe just to cry – but he puts a careful finger on my lips. I breathe a little of his steam, and it warms me all the way through.

Gil dances like the old days, like he wants to tempt his own death.

When the world is destroyed, someone must remake the world. I think you’d call that art.

But this ache that I know shouldn’t be there slides through every part of me.

Just looking at him makes me short of breath, makes me want to cry, makes me want to rage and scream.

I’m nothing but forward momentum and a curse.

He says this last with his cheek against mine. I think my heart might run away inside my chest. I think he knows.

The kings die so that their choice of the next Queen can be irrevocable, unassailable, and unprejudiced.