58 Quotes About Kestrel



  • Author Marie Rutkoski
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    What did you tell the queen?""I told Inisha about you.""What, exactly?"He hesitated. "I'm afraid to say.""I want you to.""You might leave.""I won't."He stayed silent.She said, "I give you my word.""I told her that I belong to you, and no other. I said that I was sorry.

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  • Author Marie Rutkoski
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    You could offer her a seat,' Arin said.'Ah, but I only have two chairs in my tent, little Herrani, and we are three. I suppose she could always sit on your lap.

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  • Author Marie Rutkoski
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    A lovely fatigue claimed him. He lay down on the grass and listened. He thought about how Kestrel had slept on the palace lawn and dreamed of him. When she had told him this, he'd wished that it had been real. He tried to imagine the dream, then found himself dreaming.

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  • Author Marie Rutkoski
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    He said, "How can the inconsequence of your life not shame you?"He said, "How do you not feel empty?"I do, she thought as she pushed through the library doors and let them thud behind her. I do.”

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  • Author Marie Rutkoski
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    She would have stopped him. She would have wished herself deaf, blind, made of unfeeling smoke. She would have stopped his words out of terror, longing. The way terror and longing had become indistinguishable.

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