Essa é sua verdadeira face, eu pensei conforme apertava os olhos na luz cegante. Os similares se atraem. Essa era sua alma transformada em carne, a verdade sobre ele deixada nua no sol brilhante, despida de mistério e sombra. Essa era a verdade por trás do seu rosto charmoso e de seus poderes milagrosos, a verdade que era o espaço vazio e morto entre as estrelas, o espaço árido preenchido de monstros amedrontados.

I'd like to think of myself as delightfully complex.

There is a fine line between fear and veneration, Alina Starkov. I can move that line. That is the prize I offer you.

But there was something a little silly about eating “hearty peasant fare” off porcelain plates, beneath a dome inlaid with real gold.Saints forbid we forget we’re real Ravkans.

The firebird was Ravka. It was right that we should kneel.

I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.”He grinned and my heart flip-flopped the way it always had.

The problem with wanting is that it make us weak." - Darkling

There was a war, there were a thousand wars. I knew a killer. I knew a hero. They might've been a same man.

Never let them touch you. Because one touch was enough to reveal it, this gift lurking inside him. It was enough to make him less a boy than a prize.