36 Quotes by Nicki Pau Preto

How many times could a person hurt you and your love for them endure?Then again, surely only love could make words like hers cut so deeply? Love didn't stop people from hurting each other-- love made it easier.

None of them were truly related to her, but they were still her family.

Someday soon you’ll call me Queen.

She didn’t want to be a queen. She didn’t want a war. She wanted peace. She wanted to protect others like her, to make the world safe for animages again. Veronyka wanted to fly in a flock, to be part of the Phoenix Rider resurgence, to stand among her fellows with pride and confidence, not above them.

She squeezed her eyes shut and stopped resisting. She fell into his arms, where he held her gently for a heartbeat then sighed. She thought of Val again. For all her dragging and pulling and demanding, all their ways their bodies had come into contact—and conflict—with each other over the years, Val had never given herself to Veronyka like this. Never offered herself at all. With Val, everything was take, take, take.

If Pyra had to burn for Veronyka to be by Avalkyra’s side, so be it.

A sense of tightness, of long-awaited justice, expanded in Avalkyra’s chest. This is how it was meant to be: Avalkyra standing proud, a queen once more, and her loyal subjects bowing before her.

These are the costs of war: a thousand shattering moments of pain and loss and a lifetime of regret.

If I am to become naught but ruin, may it be so that you can build anew upon the ashes.