26 Quotes by Emily Skrutskie

Home is what you kill for. And I killed for Swift.

We’re more elegant weapons. More civilized. Less clumsy or random. We’re built with the strength to hold this Fleet together.

It’s so clear now, looking at him. I should’ve trusted my instincts from the start – they always point me back in the same direction. Him, him, always him. Save him. Kiss him. Tell him.

But she underestimated me. I played my cards, I laid in wait, I let myself be beaten and manipulated. If she keeps that promise she made to me, I’ll show her the truth I’ve learned on her boat. I don’t just raise monsters. I am one.

My only allegiance is to an empire that doesn’t exist yet, to the possibility of Gal’s future rule. Maybe that makes me a traitor. Maybe it forfeits my soul. But for him – for this disastrous boy sleeping next to me – I would, I will.

I don’t just raise monsters. I am one.

They can try to kill me all they want, but I’m the girl who stands on tha backs of the beasts of the NeoPacific. The Minnow blazes from within, promising life and warmth and vilainy, but out here I’m mighty.

But when you suffer with someone, you learn them. And it’s hard to kill a person you’ve learned.

She probably just wants to see me get eaten.