3 Quotes by Amaya Ash

That’s because the true power of magic is not to send random objects careening off across the room. The true power of magic is to make ordinary people bow.

Hadn’t my family been stupid to breed for magic? Someone like Hiss had been bound to pop up eventually. And then you got a not-particularly-wise, not-particularly-happy little boy who couldn’t be trusted with a sharp knife at the dinner table in case he accidentally cut his own hand open, and yet who had the power to defeat an army. How else could this have ended, other than with him being used as a weapon against us?

He was always so tensed-up and serious, as if all the softer things had been beaten out of him. His smile was like a bird laying its nest on the side of a jagged cliff; sweetness surviving, enduring everything.