A Heart So Fierce and Broken215"You could likely heal your injuries now ," says lisak. "The boy's as well" "How?" says Tycho.lisak's eyes do not leave mine. "How do you learn to walk on two legs?"I frown. "Balance?""Necessity." His claws sink into my forearm.

We are all dealt a hand at birth. A good hand can ultimately lose - just as a poor hand can win - but we must all play the cards the fate deals. The choices we face may not be the choices we want, but they are choices nonetheless.

He might be ten times more dangerous then Rhen, but he's a hundred times easier to get along with.

An eternity at Prince Rhen's side, surviving his monster, surviving Lilith, surviving as a guardsman, and I'm going to die in the leaves beside a campfire because I was stupid .

Our relationship seems to tick forward like the hands of a clock, always changing in relation to each other.

Do you think I can't do it?”“ I have no doubt you can do it. I think His Highness will not like it.”“Oh! Well, then, posthaste or whatever you'd say here.

“Please?” I clasp my hands in front of me, the way I used to do when I wanted Jake to walk me down the street for ice cream. “ Pretty please, Scary Grey?” I tease He sighs and lifts his eyes skyward— which is what Jake used to do, too, and how I know I've won.