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My mother is Ketterdam. She birthed me in the harbor.

A HEARTRENDER USING HER MAGIC TO SURVIVE THE SLUMS

Maybe your stay in Hellgate was too short, Matthias. There’s always more to lose.

❝ until this moment, wylan hadn’t quite understood how much they meant to him. his father would have sneered at these thugs and thieves, a disgraced soldier, a gambler who couldn’t keep out of the red. but they were his first friends, his only friends, and wylan knew that even if he’d had his pick of a thousand companions, these would have been the people he chose. ❞

Let him go, Nina. I can’t.

 “I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.”

kuwei was hope. and he was a boy who deserved a chance to live without a target on his back.

Dunyasha Lazareva, also known as the White Blade, was sent by Pekka Rollins and Jan Van Eck to match Inej. Inej believes her to be her Shadow, as the Suli believe that when someone does bad things, their Shadow is sent by the Saints to make them pay for it.

she was a queen without mercy, a figure carved in ivory and amber. 

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Wylan summoned every bit of bravado he’d learned from Nina, the will he’d learned from Matthias, the focus he’d studied in Kaz, the courage he’d learned from Inej, and the wild, reckless hope he’d learned from Jesper, the belief that no matter the odds, somehow they would win.

happy birthday to my love, Riya | @fifthharbour

a queen without  m e r c y

the life you live, the hate you feel - it’s poison. I can drink it no longer