“Delilah Bard—always a thief, recently a magician, and one day, hopefully, a pirate—was running as fast as she could.”
Source: A Conjuring of Light
“We're all here for a reason, Bard. Some reasons are just bigger than others. So I guess I'm not scared of who you are, or even what you are. I'm scared of why you are.”
Source: A Gathering of Shadows
“Lila. A soft name but she used it like a knife, slashing out the first syllable, the second barely a whisper of metal through air.”
Source: A Darker Shade of Magic
“There are many shadows in the night.”
Source: A Gathering of Shadows
“It´s a race, then. May the best Antari win.”
Source: Conjuro De Luz
“Don't let anyone tell you that you're "less than." You ARE good enough!”
Source: Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce
“He almost smiled. A ghost. A trick of the light. “So you
couldn’t run away again before I said hello.”
“Hello,” said Lila.
“Hello,” said Kell. “Where have you been?”
Lila smirked. “Why, did you miss me?”
Kell opened his mouth. Closed it. Opened it again before
finally managing to answer, “Yes.”
The word was low, and the sincerity caught her off guard. A
blow beneath her ribs. “What,” she fumbled, “the life of a
royal no longer to your tastes?” But the truth was, she’d
missed him, too. Missed his stubbornness and his moods and
his constant frown. Missed his eyes, one crisp blue, the other
glossy black.
“You look …” he started, then trailed off.
“Ridiculous?”
“Incredible.”
Source: A Gathering of Shadows
“Lila was nineteen. Nineteen, and every one of the years felt carved into her.”
Source: A Darker Shade of Magic
“Because it wasn't enough to be happy, not for Lila. She wanted more. Wanted an adventure . . . Maybe it wasn't a matter of what she didn't have, of what she wasn't, but what she was.”
Source: A Gathering of Shadows
“Lila had an idea. It was a very stupid idea. But a stupid idea was better than no idea, at least in theory. So she dragged the words into shape and delivered them with her sharpest smile. “Nas,” she said, slowly. “An to eran gast.”
No. I am your best thief.
She held the captain’s gaze when she said it, her chin high and proud. The others grumbled and growled, but to her they didn’t matter, didn’t exist. The world narrowed to Lila and the captain of the ship.
His smile was almost imperceptible. The barest quirk of his lips.”
Source: A Gathering of Shadows