Цитаты из книги The Bone Shard Daughter

Нельзя дружить с тем, с кем соперничаешь за один и тот же приз.

Мой отец, когда мы с ним выходили в море, любил повторять: если акула предлагает жемчужину, держись подальше от её зубов. Правда, мой опыт подсказывает, что об этом правиле стоит чаще вспоминать на суше и среди людей.

Одно глупое решение... как отпущенная крыса. Оно порождает последствия, о которых ты вначале и подумать не мог.

У того, кто не видит будущего, будущего нет...

Мои глупые решения множились, как идущая на нерест рыба.

Как же мне хотелось, чтобы ноги у меня были длинные... И мозгов побольше.

Что причиняет бо́льшую боль – чувство вины, или потеря?

Хотя, если бы я скрыл правду, было бы только хуже. Реальность - суровая госпожа, но от нее нельзя отмахиваться.

It’s hard to remake one’s view of the world, to admit to complacency. I thought remaking myself for you was hard enough, but doing that was something I wanted. I didn’t want to realize how much I’ve hurt the people around me, and that’s what confronting my beliefs meant. We all tell ourselves stories of who we are, and in my mind, I was always the hero. But I wasn’t. Not in all the ways I should have been.

“I’d told Emahla once that I would fight off a thousand armies just to be at her side. She’d laughed and had kissed my cheek. “Jovis, you’re not a fighter.”

“I would be for you.”

Them together – it had never been Ranami’s end goal, not the way it was for Phalue. Ranami loved Phalue – she felt it to her very bones – but there were other things to consider. And this wasn’t something she could explain without hurting her. She knew, when she looked at Phalue, that it wasn’t the same for her.

“He laid the key on the table like I was a dog and the key a treat. He’d give the treat to me, yes, but only if I performed first.”

“Father didn’t think I was enough. My memory was lacking. But I knew who I was now. I was Lin. I was the Emperor’s daughter.

And I would show him that even broken daughters could wield power.”

“I couldn’t just sit around waiting for my father to die, hoping that if I learned enough, he would choose me as heir. Too many variables, too many things that could go wrong. And Father had taught me this much at least. Do not rely on that which you cannot control.”

“Phalue has always cast off lovers the way an unlucky fisherman throws back fish that are too small.”

Ranami knew she was not a small fish, not to Phalue. She knew it surely as she knew all the back alleys of the city. “It’s been three years,” she said. “What fisherman holds on to a fish that long that he does not intend to keep?”

“I felt the way a rabbit must when it feels the noose about its neck. And like a rabbit, I’d keep kicking.”