Цитаты из книги Beneath the Keep

It was the great gift of humanity, after all: to hold to hope, even when all torches went out.

Making choices and living with them. If you’re to sit the throne after me, you must learn that. You may know it academically, but academics mean fuck-all with a crown on your head

The past is powerful, but it need not control the future.

Elyssa had never been in love before, and now she understood why so many people referred to it as a sickness. She felt as though she had a fever

It doesn’t even matter if we never do. The important thing is to die trying.

History is full of fools who allowed want to undermine was

Expecting nothing, one may gain everything.

You think you’re better. You think you deserve better, and pigeons like you, exceptional pigeons, are dangerous. They make others start looking upward.

He himself had spent his own life killing . . . not because he wanted to, but because it was expected of him.

We didn’t fail, Niya. We simply didn’t win. History rules, not us. If we’re lucky, we get an occasional star to guide us . . . but we didn’t. Not this time.

Abuse does not vanish with the onset of adulthood; it follows the victim, creating fault lines—alienation and violence—that grow deeper over the years

Rogue dogs sometimes formed packs, but that didn’t stop them from eating each other when the time came.

All hurricanes begin in exactly the same way:
As a breath of calm air on a bright, pleasant day.

“Are you brave, Liam?” she asked.
“Brave? How would I know?”
“By finding out. Follow me.”

This is what the dealers do. Sell dreams, but at the end they’re only nightmares

God is morphia, and he anesthetizes most effectively when Crown and Arvath work in lockstep.

As a prince, he was a liability. As king, he would be disastrous

A fool on the throne would be a blow indeed, but fools, at least, can be guided by others

They longed for a peaceful world, but did not flinch from violence in pursuit of that goal

“Unless you’ve suddenly grown a cunt and it’s open for sale, then you’ve no idea how to tend to mine.”