The Girl Of Fire And Thorns Quotes
"Today is the day of my wedding. It is also my sixteenth birthday."
"I am a sausage, a big, bloated sausage in a white silk casing."
"I want a reason not to care when he turns away in disgust."
"God should have chosen her; she is athletic and sensible, elegant and strong."
"I study her as I chew my pastry, her shining black hair and chiseled cheeks."
"I don’t know what to do. I blink rapidly, determined not to cry."
"Do not doubt God or his choosing of you. He knows infinitely more than we can imagine."
"I can embroider the hem of a terno in two days."
"I close my eyes while they chatter, inhaling the poignant scent of roses and prayer candles."
"I’m right here! I want to scream. I am not a small child to be discussed over."
"Safer. Is this why they married me off so quickly? Because the Godstone puts me in danger?"
"I feel Ximena behind me, watching, but I ignore her. 'I’d dearly love to compare it to my own copy. There are a few places where I fear the text may have been altered a bit.'"
"I wish he would sit next to me on the bed. I imagine what it would be like to feel his cheek against mine, my fingers in his hair."
"From the mouths of innocents flows truth . . ."
"I pray like I haven’t prayed in weeks. I tell God about Father Nicandro and the dead Godstones buried next to my palm tree."
"She killed a man once. Because he learned I bear the stone."
"‘He could not know what awaited at the gates of the enemy . . . ’ ‘Could.’ One tiny word."
"I am not a tall girl, but I tower over him by half a head."
"I am God’s chosen, I tell myself. The bearer."
"‘I had a taster.’ Someone risked her life every day for me. Died for me. Someone I never knew."
"It’s possible to die before completing the service."
"My enemy. I remember the words of Homer’s Afflatus about the enemy’s gates. About the realm of sorcery."
"My heart patters as I peel aside the fabric."
"The swooping dunes of Joya’s desert are everywhere, in every direction, burnished red in the shadowed side, bright like molten gold in the sunrise, to the very edge of the world."
"Though he said I would be well treated, I am certain of nothing and cannot know when next I’ll eat."
"I have never felt so frightened and powerless."
"I press forward, nearly gasping with relief each time our small group crests a dune."
"Honor from death is a myth. Invented by the war-torn to make sense of the horrific."
"I’m not the same fat princess who was kidnapped from her bed in Brisadulce, but compared to my nimble companions, I am slow and lumbering."
"In short, we cannot war with Invierne and live."
"I don’t have to part my breasts or press into my stomach to see my Godstone."
"I find myself smiling. Just a little. Because I may prove useful after all."
"The army of Invierne, still more than a day’s travel away. Yet their cook fires shine like a small city."
"You must get away. You and the Godstone. They know, Elisa."
"Fear has been my steady companion for so long now."
"What is another warning? Merely the words of a madman, harmless and deflected as easily as a will-o'-the-wisp."
"He is never far, and every time I glance in his direction, I see huge brown eyes lingering on me, bright with feeling."
"I’m not sure I want to be married to Alejandro."
"He’s handsome. Very charming. But he can be indecisive."
"I’m the first to arrive. I spend the next hour luxuriating in fervent prayer for the safety of my companions."
"If it makes you feel better, I’ll have her watched."