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Remember when we told each other no distractions? Yes. He runs a blazing finger over my earrings, touching each one in turn. Distract me.Victoria Aveyard
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Thank you, ” I whisper. Words I never thought I would say to her. They unsettle us both.”“ You want to thank me, Barrow?” she mutters, kicking away the last of my bindings. “Then keep your word. And let this fucking place burn.” (300)Victoria Aveyard
3
In the palace, during my imprisonment, I learned that Maven had been made by his mother, formed into the monster he became. There is nothing on earth that can change him or what she did. But Cal was made too. All of us were made by someone else, and all of us have some thread of steel that nothing and no one can cut. I thought Cal was immune to the corruptive temptation of power. How wrong I was. He was born to be a king. It's what he was made for. It's what he was made to want.Victoria Aveyard
4
In what life can I trust anything out of your mouth ever again?Victoria Aveyard
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Cameron, my heart is quite literally in this,Victoria Aveyard
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What I would do, to myself or anyone else, for the chance to go back home? But no one is there. No one I care about. They're gone, protected, far away. Home is no longer the place we're from. Home is safe with them. I hope.Victoria Aveyard
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As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.Victoria Aveyard
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Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat.Victoria Aveyard
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Cal stares ahead, as if his eyes alone can set the entire world on fire. I think he wants to. That would make this easier.Victoria Aveyard
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I know! " he growls back, his voice guttural. I wonder if all of his fire kind have eyes like his. Eyes that burn and smolder.Victoria Aveyard
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Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.Victoria Aveyard