Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss Quotes

People of the hundred, " he said, using an ancient Herrani phrase Arin was surprised he knew, "who leads you?"So many cried Arin's name that it no longer sounded like his name.

I want to know everything about you." So he told her. The stars, too, seemed to listen.

You will be lonely, but you'll become strong.

She said, I'm going to miss you when you when I wake up.Don't wake up, he answered.But he did.Kestrel, beside him on the grass, said. "Did I wake you? I didn't mean to.

He'd believed it. She couldn't believe that he believed it. Sometimes, she hated him for that.

Yet he understood that there are some things you feel and others that you choose to feel, and that the choice doesn't make the feeling less valid.

A dagger wants flesh, her father would say. Find it.

Ultimately, when he held your treasonous letter in his hand and saw how you had lied to him, the choice between me and you was the choice between someone who loves him and someone who didn't.

When I look at you as if you're crazy it's not that I judge you for your insanity.

Little Fists, what's wrong?

Will you come with me?""Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.