89 Quotes About Shadow-and-bone

It's a balance, his mother always said. Fear is a powerful ally, but feed it too often, make it too strong, and it will turn on you.

The would approach him. They always did. But he felt more anxious than usual. He'd stopped trying to make friends in the places he and his mother visited—there was no point when they moved on so quickly. Now he wasn't quite sure how to go about it.

The Darkling came borne on a tide of shadow, held aloft by monsters who set his feet upon the chapel floor with infinite care. •chapter 23, page 410

You might make me a better man.""And you might make me a monster.

You were meant to be my balance, Alina. You are the only person in the world who might rule with me, who might keep my power in check. •chapter 9, page 200

I would murder the only person I'd ever loved and who had ever loved me. I'd dive back into battle wearing his bones. •chapter 15, page 338

I knew what it would leave behind when the pain was gone: loneliness, nothingness, a deep fissure that would not mend, the desperate edge of the abyss I had once glimpsed in the Darkling's eyes. •chapter 20, page 367

The shadows felt like a pushiment, ghosts of greater power that served only to taunt me, the Saint of shams and mirrors. •chapter 1, page 14

I called and the light answered with the strength of the antlers at my throat, the scales at my wrist. It came to me in a rush, triumphant and eager. •chapter 2, page 43