26 Quotes About The-midnight-star

I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.

I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.”—A witness’s account of Queen Adelina’s siege on the nation of DumorThe Village of Pon-de-Terre28 Marzien, 1402

What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?

Every bone in my body yearns to keep this boy safe, always. "Magiano...," I start to say. "I don't want to leave this world having never been with you.

You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.

If I’ve learned anything from my past and my present, it’s the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don’t fight back. I know this well enough.

The day will come when we strike you down,” she’s saying. “Mark my words. We will haunt your nightmares.”I clench my fists and fling an illusion of pain across her body. “I am the nightmare.

I am the nightmare.

I will wake a hundred times, lost in the madness of this nightmare, until the sunlight streaming through my windows finally burns the scene away. Even then, hours later, I cannot be sure I am not still in my dream.I am afraid that, one night, I will never wake. I will be doomed to rush to that door over and over again, running from a nightmare in which I am always, forever, lost.