“But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”

“I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still”

↳ “She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly.”

“Nita wasn’t a good person, but she liked to think she tried. But in the end, it really was all talk. Just empty platitudes to make her feel good, to try to justify her lifestyle to herself.”

“She may have been the most feared killer in Itreya, murderess of legions, Lady of Blades, destroyer of the Republic, but look, she had good in her also. Mercy, even for rapists and brutes. O, cue the swelling violiiiiiiins!”