142 Quotes by Susan Dennard

Is that what you think I am? All this time, and you still haven’t sorted it out? Why am I surprised? You didn’t notice me when we were on the Jana. You couldn’t even remember my name back then, so why should I expect you to understand – to see me for what I am now!

She did have regrets. Thousands of them, and the weight was too heavy for her to keep moving. She was a ship that could not sail, for its anchor – its thousands of anchors – locked it to the sea floor.

You’re chained up.” A wince pulled at Safi’s eyes. “I upset the Admiral.” “Of course you did.” “It’s not funny.

Safi snatched the other side of his shirt. “These go inside these.

She stole his breath now, and he had no breath to spare.

How is it,” Stix asked, “that men always seem to claim victory over the triumphs earned by women?

But one need not be evil to become it.

Before Nubrevna, it had been Dalmotti. Before Dalmotti, it had been Marstok. For centuries, this peninsula had changed hands, and for centuries, no one had ever fully won – or ever fully lost.

Shut the door,” he ordered. Safi did, but tensed her muscles. She might have danced and fought with this man, but that didn’t mean she trusted him in a room alone.