I know what you thought, what you always thought of me.It's so much easier that way, isn't it?

La vergogna ha un valore che il denaro non potrà mai avere.

Kaz can pick the lock, " said Wylan. "No, " said Kaz, "I can't. ""I don't think I ever heard those words leave your lips, " said Nina. "Say it again, nice and slow.

Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.

I don't know, maybe I liked your stupid face!

The Darkling had told her he was destined to rule. He had claimed his throne, and a part of her too. He was welcome to it. For the living and the dead, she would make herself a reckoning.She would rise.

Zowa. It simply meant "blessed". That was the word Jesper's mother used instead of Grisha. "we're Zowa", she would say.

Remember who you are. Nikolai knew. He was a king who had only begun to make mistakes. He was a solider for whom the war would never be over. He was a bastard left alone in the woods. And he was not afraid to die this day.

Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.