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

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  People

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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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• 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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• It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.

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  Dream, Enough, Left

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• I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.

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  Skulls, Care, Staring

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• I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave." I yawn. "So very long as that?" When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect.

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  Two, Voice, Long

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• I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face.

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  Comfort, Faces, Feels

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• Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?

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  Life, Sheep

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• ... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.

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  Daughter, Dark, Light

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• Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours.

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  Heart, My Heart, Ready

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• Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.

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  Heart, Giving, Doe

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• I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.' 'It was not I who was poisoning him,' I say. 'No, but you had stolen his heart and I was afraid you would rip it from his chest when you left.

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  Sorry, Rip, Heart

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• ... true faith never comes without anguish.

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  Anguish, True Faith

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• You love me?' 'Yes, you great lummox. I love you.' He lets out a sigh. 'Sweet Camulos! It's about time.

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  Sweet, Love You, Sigh

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.

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  Sometimes

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