177 Quotes by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light.

I bathe in private!

That day I brought Nila here, you asked me to stay the night. Was that a sincere offer?” “Of course it was.” “Because of what I’d done for her?” “Because you looked like someone who needed a place to stay.

But this new king is also my older brother. He was always the one to pick me up when I fell, to warn me of dangers I had not yet discovered, to teach me the wisdom I had yet to learn for myself. All my life, I thought if I could only be more like him, then I would somehow find the best in myself. All my life I have fallen short of that goal, and yet he believed in me anyway, and gave me hope of being a better person tomorrow.

I motioned Kestra over to the table. “Come eat.” “After Trina has breathed on it? I’d rather eat off the floor.

Real spies don’t have all the cool gadgets you see in the movies,” Dak said, watching Sera struggle with the lock. “Though I sure wish we had a sonic screwdriver right about now.