27 Quotes About Siege-and-storm

It's madness, I told myself. He wouldn't dare attempt it. The thought brought me little comfort. He always dared.

You want," the Darkling mocked. I want to watch your tracker die slowly with my knife in his heart. I want to let the sea swallow you both. But our fates are entwined now, Alina, and there's nothing either of us can do about that.

You're humoring me," he said with the hint of a grin."You require a lot of coddling.

At Keramzin, I had a doll I made out of an old sock that I used to talk to whenever he was away hunting. Maybe that would make me feel better.""You were an odd little girl.""You have no idea. What did you and Tolya play with?""The skulls of our enemies."I saw the glint in her eye, and we both burst out laughing.

Mal shouted. I heard scuffling behind me and knew Tolya had taken hold of him. “Alina!” His voice was raw white wood, torn from the heart of a tree. I did not turn.

Might want to leave him alone," Sturmhond said. "That type needs plenty of time for brooding and self-recrimination. Otherwise they get cranky.

Redemption," he murmured. "Salvation. Penance. My mother's quaint ideas. Perhaps I should have paid closer attention.

Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to work at my desk.Long minutes passed. I didn’t think he would answer. I even had time to hope he might have gone, until I felt his hand on my shoulder.“Then I’d be alone, too," he said, and he stayed the whole night through, till the lamps burned down to nothing.

No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all.