NO LIGHT WITHOUT DARKNESS .. an assortment of quotes from season 2 of shadow and bone.
we've been framed for murder.
why is the sun so important to a privateer?
there's a whole world to see once we're not fugitives.
you think you know who you are not because you've suffered for a moment?
are you willing to sacrifice that which is most precious to you?
what you just did was impressive and also very illegal.
i have returned, and i made some new friends.
there's adventure, danger, money? now you're speaking my language.
the past informs everything. it is the wound that will not heal.
perhaps now youβre getting an inkling of what itβs like to be hunted.
you live in a single moment. i live in a thousand.
there is a cost, always, to making difficult choices.
suffering is as cheap as clay and twice as common.
it will give me some comfort to know youβre with me, in the shadows.
letβs go take down the king.
the trick is not to love anything.
being myself is a luxury I cannot often indulge.
all creatures have a weakness.
i was always honest with you with the things that matter.
i have seen what you truly are, and i have never turned away. i never will.
the problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.
you canβt unlearn that sort of hatred.
the power was angry, but it was mine, mine alone.
the whole world will hear it when I make her scream.
home. so much about it defines who you become.
this isnβt a return home; itβs a return to the scene of the crime.
who are you without your vengeance?
fight me as long as youβre able. youβll find i have more practice with eternity.
iβm the final piece of the puzzle.
know that i loved you. know that it was not enough.
iβll never know a love more than this.
youβre all Iβve ever wanted. youβre the whole of my heart.
you have a bad habit of acting a fool and calling it heroic.
there is no light without darkness.
without me, know that they will come for you.
if this path leads me back to you, weβll know what we have is ours, and ours alone. choice. not destiny. choice.
there is no place for secrets when you sit upon the throne.











