King of Scars

“Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers. But we who would wield power adorn ourselves in flowers to hide the sting of our thorns." Be sweeter. Be gentler. Smile when you are suffering. Zoya had ignored these lessons, often to her detriment. She was all thorns.”

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“No one wants to look too closely at another person's pain.”

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“She could feel the force of a stampede in the body beneath her, the heaving power of a storm-tossed sea.”

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“The trick of acting is to believe the lie yourself, at least a little. Acting begins in the body. If you want to convince anyone of anything, you start with the way the body moves. It tells a thousand stories before you even open your mouth.”

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“It's only my loyalty to the king that keeps me from pulling the air from your chest and crushing your lungs like hollow gourds. " "I've seen her do it, " said Nikolai. "Makes a funny sound. " "Kind of a pop? said Tamar. " Wetter, " Nikolai said. "More of a squelch.”

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“Is this the part where we die well?"... "No, this is the part where the king of Ravka surrenders himself, and the love we never had lives on in ballads and song." "Nikolai," snapped Zoya, "don't you dare.”

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“It felt like falling. Zoya was the stone, and there was no bottom to the well, no end to the emptiness inside her.”

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“Everyone is so concerned with the naming of their wounds and the tending of them," she said. "It's tiresome.”

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“Better to be a woman alone than a woman beholden to some old man who can't manage a wife his own age.”

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“It's that or execution, my dove. Think of it this way: you won't be hanged, but the price is a life of luxury and my sparkling company." "You might consider the gallows," said Zoya. "Quicker and less painful.”

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“Lay down the thorn, boy king. Haven’t you earned a bit of rest? Aren’t you tired?' He was. Saints, he was. He thought he had grown used to his scars, but he had never grasped how much of his will it would take to hide them. He had fought and sacrificed and bled. He had gone long days without rest and long nights without comfort. All for Ravka, all for an ideal he would never attain and a country that would never care.”

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