R.L. LaFevers Quotes

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• When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.

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  Knives, Assassins, Edges

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• I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.

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  Cat, Levels, Found

  R. L. LaFevers (2011). “Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

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  Want, Vengeance, Mercy

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• People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.

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  People

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• I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all.

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  Heart, Broken, Convince

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• Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours, until Death do us part. Whatever that may mean when consorting with one of Death’s handmaidens.

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  Heart, Mean, May

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• Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.

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  Running, Soul, Wonder

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• You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.

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  Children, Sorry, Blades

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• Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

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  Men, Two, Flesh

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• I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.

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  Mother, Running, Abortion

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• However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so—we help them on their way.

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  Mean, Way, Helping

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• The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

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  Thinking, Shells, Body

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• A kiss for luck, demoiselle?" It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last. Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.

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  Regret, Kissing, Giving

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• God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.' 'I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife. 'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me.' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him.

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  Sleep, Knives, Trying

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• For all that I have kissed before, I have never felt anything like this. It is as if I have swallowed a tiny piece of the sun, its warmth and light reaching into every corner of my soul and chasing away the shadows. I surrender to that kiss - surrender to the strength and the courage and the sheer goodness of the man.

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  Kissing, Men, Light

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• And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am -- Death's justice.

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  Who I Am, Two Sides, Justice

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• It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break.

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  Heart, Break, Good Things

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• I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.

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  Love, Thinking, People

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• Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

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  Children, Blessed, Past

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• If he is smart, he will run. He is not.

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  Running, Smart, Ifs

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• It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.

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  Thinking, Hands, Mind

  R. L. LaFevers (2008). “Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them.

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  Men, Dungeons, Rescue

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• You would throw away all that we have given you for a man’s love?” “Not a man’s love,” I say softly. “But Duval’s. And I would find a way to serve both my god and my heart. Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.

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  Heart, Men, Giving

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• Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.

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  Mistake, Justice

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• I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.

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  Men, Would Be, Avalanches

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