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The Stolen Heir
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“A small smile turns up a corner of my mouth. I feel the sharpness of my teeth and roll my tongue over them. For the first time, I like the feeling.” (The Stolen Heir Quotes)

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The Stolen Heir

“And for a moment, I am viciously glad. It doesn’t feel good exactly, to be in danger, but it does feel good to be the cause of events rather than being swept along into them.”

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The Stolen Heir
The Stolen Heir Quotes

“And that is why you ought not dramatically vow to obey someone. They seldom ask for what you hope they will.”

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The Stolen Heir

“Another girl might have frozen, but I am cold all the way through.”

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The Stolen Heir

“As a child, Wren read lots of fairy tales. That’s why, when the monsters came, she knew it was because she had been wicked.”

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The Stolen Heir

“At least the hem of the skirt doesn’t drag impractically on the floor. I can still run in it as I howl at the moon.”

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The Stolen Heir

“Because I don’t like being the fool who’d been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.”

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The Stolen Heir

“But my heart keeps beating harder, and I shrink into myself, as though if I am still enough, anxiety will stop gnawing on my insides.”

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The Stolen Heir

“Everything died in the Ice Citadel, but hope died first.”

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The Stolen Heir

“Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same.”

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The Stolen Heir

“He ought to have been taught better than to let his emotions show on his face. Instead, he assumed that others would care about his feelings, so he didn’t bother to hide them.”

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The Stolen Heir

“He’s the kind of beautiful that makes people want to smash things.”

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The Stolen Heir

“If he’s half as taken with you as you are with yourself, I imagine he’ll be well pleased.”

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The Stolen Heir

“If Oak is the sunlight filtering through trees in the woods, all shifting gold and shadow, then Tiernan seems like those same woods in winter, the branches barren and cold.” (The Stolen Heir Quotes)

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The Stolen Heir

“It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it’s like hope.”

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The Stolen Heir

“It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.”

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The Stolen Heir

“My father used to tell me that once begun, a battle was a living thing and no one could control it.”

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The Stolen Heir

“My greatest weakness has always been my desire for love. It is a yawning chasm within me, and the more that I reach for it, the more easily I am tricked. I am a walking bruise, an open sore. If Oak is masked, I am a face with all the skin ripped off. Over and over, I have told myself that I need to guard against my own yearnings, but that hasn’t worked.”

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The Stolen Heir

“My sister thinks that she’s the only one who can take poison, but I am poison,’ he whispers, eyes half-closed, talking to himself. ‘Poison in my blood. I poison everything I touch.”

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The Stolen Heir

“Nothing he says is a lie, but all his words are riddles.”

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The Stolen Heir

“Perhaps it is Oak who is the fool, who caught a wolf and thought that by putting it in a gown and speaking to it as though it were a girl, it would become one.”

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The Stolen Heir

“She’s going to want to wear your skull for a hat,” Oak warns. There is an uncomfortable shifting among the ex-falcons. Perhaps they are recalling their own choice to denounce her, their own punishment. “And Cardan is going to laugh and laugh when she does.”

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The Stolen Heir

“Some things seem too terrible to seem possible. Soon he may learn the worst thing he can imagine is only the beginning of what they are willing to do to him.”

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The Stolen Heir

“Sometimes life gives us the terrible gift of our own wishes come true.”

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The Stolen Heir

“That’s what I’ve been for years. An unsister. An undaughter. An unperson. A girl with a hole for a life. How appropriate to have my tongue cut out, when silence has been my refuge and my cage.”

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The Stolen Heir

“The Folk adore Cardan, and they’re terrified of my sister, two excellent things. I hope they rule Elfhame for a years and then pass it down to one of a dozen offspring. No need for me to be involved.” (The Stolen Heir Quotes)

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The Stolen Heir

“The prince opens his tawny fox eyes and looks around. When he sees me, he slumps back down, as though relieved that I am still here.”

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The Stolen Heir

“Though he means me harm, I will miss him. I will miss the way he moves through the world, as though nothing could be so terrible that he might not laugh at it.”

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The Stolen Heir

“Trees of ice grow blue fruits the size of peaches, encased in a frozen crust. Some have fallen and split open like candy apples. The scent is that of honey and spice and sap. The leaves of the trees give off a haunting sound not unlike wind chimes when the air blows through the branches.”

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The Stolen Heir

“With him, I am forever a night-blooming flower, attracted and repelled by the heat of the sun.”

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The Stolen Heir
The Stolen Heir Quotes

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