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“Amira no more trusted him than she would trust a starving kelpie.”

Trust

Book:Daindreth's Assassin

Source: Daindreth's Assassin

“Do you trust me, Amira?” Amira considered that for a moment. “I trust you as much as I trust myself.”

Trust

Book:Daindreth's Assassin

Source: Daindreth's Assassin

“I swore to fight an order of fanatical rogues and a demon for you, Sair. I’m sure I can face my mother, too.”

Courage Family Feuds

Book:Bastard's Honor

Source: Bastard's Honor

“Something about being told she couldn’t have him had revealed how much she wanted him.”

Desire

Book:Daindreth's Assassin

Source: Daindreth's Assassin

“That was eerily like the defense he had prepared for himself. Hearing her speak it first was oddly disarming.”

Relationships Honesty Communication

Book:Tears of the Wolf

Source: Tears of the Wolf

“My wife may be in a merciful mood, but I am not.”

Romantic Loving Husband Quotes Protectiveness Best Husband Protective Instincts

Book:Tears of the Wolf

Source: Tears of the Wolf

“Fear—that was what they wanted, so she gave them the opposite. Instead of frightened servants and panicked stable boys—they found themselves facing her. Here was a woman at ease as if their spears, shields, and glares didn’t exist. When people didn’t see what they expected to see, it made them question things. If she wasn’t afraid, perhaps it was because she had no reason to be afraid.”

Fear

Book:Tears of the Wolf

Source: Tears of the Wolf

“Daindreth had been cursed, same as she was. He couldn’t help it. But where her curse had shattered her into sharp edges and left her with smoldering rage, Daindreth’s had made him kind. All that pain, terror, and anger and it had made him kind.”

Kindness

Book:Daindreth's Assassin

Source: Daindreth's Assassin

“Had she left him, or had he sent her away? Cenric wasn't sure.”

Relationship Breakup

Book:Tears of the Wolf

Source: Tears of the Wolf

“Every decision we make is one between safety and freedom, in one way or another.” Brynn blinked quickly. “I traded the latter for the former far too quickly last time. In the end, it was for nothing.”

Freedom Safety

Book:Tears of the Wolf

Source: Tears of the Wolf

“She fascinated him, this king’s daughter who had chosen to marry a stranger because it was the one choice she could make for herself.”

Freedom

Book:Tears of the Wolf

Source: Tears of the Wolf

“Sometimes the right thing isn't an option. Sometimes you must choose the least bad thing.”

Choices Making The Right Choices

Book:Daindreth's Empress

Source: Daindreth's Empress

“Her heart felt like a tangle of brambles, knotted and slicing her every time she tried to sort it out.”

Emotions Trauma

Book:Tears of the Wolf

Source: Tears of the Wolf

“Every curse could be broken, that was one of the rules of magic. But possible wasn’t the same thing as likely or easy.”

Healing Magic Abuse

Book:Daindreth's Assassin

Source: Daindreth's Assassin

“You owe nothing to the people who would enslave you.”

Healing Trauma

Book:Tears of the Wolf

Source: Tears of the Wolf

“You can threaten me. Torture me. Do what you want to me. But there is nothing you can do that will make me betray my son.” She addressed the Kadra’han with a steadiness Thadred couldn’t have managed himself. “We give our lives for our children, not the other way around. That’s something your empress has yet to learn.”

Mothers

Book:Daindreth's Outlaw

Source: Daindreth's Outlaw

“[Magic users] were dangerous and most of them had been women, something that made them doubly terrifying to many.”

Feminism Misogyny

Book:Daindreth's Outlaw

Source: Daindreth's Outlaw

“Ah, yes, pink camo,” I murmur, gesturing my chin at her tank top and hoodie. “Because you never know when you’ll have to hide in a bubblegum factory.”

Humor Camouflage

Book:Fanged Princess

Source: Fanged Princess

“Why couldn’t she just do what she was supposed to do? She had done it for years with Paega. Why couldn’t she just take it like she had before? _Because you thought this time would be different._”

Hope Change Despair Healing From Trauma

Book:Tears of the Wolf

Source: Tears of the Wolf

“Daindreth bit his lip. He didn't think so [that he would have allowed those atrocities], but it felt as if she was making him out to be infallible. He didn't like it.”

Pedestal Infallibility

Book:Daindreth's Outlaw

Source: Daindreth's Outlaw

“Amira believed that everyone married for love—just not usually love of the person they married. Yeomen tended to marry for love of grazing land and sturdy roofs. Merchants married for love of money and trade routes. Kings and archdukes married for love of power.”

Marriage Marry For Love

Book:Daindreth's Assassin

Source: Daindreth's Assassin

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