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*   TAKEN FROM THE BOOK ‘ NOW I RISE ‘ , CHANGE PRONOUNS AS YOU WISH !

❝ Hold hands with the devil until you are both over the bridge. ❞

❝ Or kill the devil and burn the bridge so no one can get to you. ❞

❝ The world will destroy her in the end. ❞

❝ No one will be more brutal than me.. ❞

❝ No one will be more ruthless. And I will never stop fighting. ❞

❝ I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. ❞

❝ Mercy is the one thing I cannot afford. Not yet. ❞

❝ What we do now, we do so that someday mercy will be able to survive here. ❞

❝ Why must I always be a man’s servant? ❞

❝ If anything, I should be partners with the devil, not his servant. ❞

❝ Do not lose that hunger. ❞

❝ You will always have to fight for everything. ❞

❝ Even when you already have it, you will have to keep fighting to maintain it. ❞

❝ You will have to be more ruthless, more brutal, more everything. ❞

❝ Any weakness will undo everything you have accomplished. ❞

❝ If I wanted shit, I would have visited the privy, not asked for an audience with you. ❞

❝ My fierce little girl. You can do anything. ❞

❝ Time, the moon, arguments, and, most of all, coins. ❞

❝ I cannot imagine a god who hates anything that is love! ❞

❝ I never want you to hate yourself for any love that is in you. ❞

❝ I do not know how to live in a world where everyone is right and everyone is wrong. ❞

❝ I do not know who I am anymore. ❞

❝ I do not take orders from women. ❞

❝ My men do not have a similar problem.  ❞

❝ The man fell, a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest. ❞

❝ We saw everything that was not ours, and we hungered. ❞

❝ Do not lose that hunger. You will always have to fight for everything. ❞

❝ She was tired of being in control all the time, tired of worrying, tired of waiting. ❞

❝ I wish you had been my father. ❞

❝ I made him into someone I do not know.  ❞

❝ I do not want to imagine a world in which you are not you. ❞

❝ You carry too much hope, and it will canker in your soul like an infection. ❞

❝ Hope was an arrow that never ceased piercing his heart. ❞

❝ When you start lower, you have to fight for every scrap of space you occupy in the world… ❞

❝ I had more luck than you. ❞

❝ The more pliable the prince, the more power they had. ❞

❝ And who could be more pliable than a simple girl, playing at the throne? ❞

❝ Hatred makes monsters of all of us. ❞

❝ I am going to give the wrong impression, wearing this. ❞

❝ You mean a good impression? ❞

❝ She would not wish any part of herself away. ❞

❝ It is easier to build than to destroy. ❞

❝ What a luxury honesty was. ❞

❝ Did he know everything, too? Were none of her humiliations private? ❞

❝ Are you sure you do not want curtains?  ❞

❝ I hate this castle and every room in it. I do not care what it looks like. ❞

❝ The last caravan they robbed had been filled with fine clothing. ❞

❝ Well, I thought they might be pretty. ❞

❝ But, certainly, they can double as weapons. You are very practical. ❞  

❝ That would fit better if it were designed for a man. ❞

❝ But it set off the color of your eyes so nicely. ❞

❝ Do not blaspheme, young man. ❞

❝ But roughly two men in support for every one man fighting. ❞

❝ How can our God ever withstand the ferocity of this faith? ❞

❝ That still leaves sixty thousand? Seventy thousand? ❞

❝ No one will be more brutal than me. No one will be more ruthless. ❞

❝ Too much spark leads to explosions. ❞

❝ But your sister will destroy as much as she can before she goes out. ❞

❝ She will go down in flames and blood. ❞

❝ He would die on the wall tonight, between his brothers and his enemies. ❞

❝ They had finally come to the end. ❞

❝ Whichever side won, neither would triumph. ❞

❝ He sent none to me when I took my throne in spite of him. ❞

❝ You did not choose right.  ❞

❝ She would have to cut her way through the world, uphill, for the rest of her life. ❞

❝ I would have visited the privy, not asked for an audience with you.❞

❝ Her merits, her accomplishments, her strength would never speak for themselves.  ❞

❝ I want you to find that same love. ❞

❝ Everything else can fall by the road and be trodden underfoot as we pass to our home.  ❞