I was just a girl again, but this girl didn't owe her strength to fate or chance or a grand destiny. I'd been born with my power; the rest I'd earned.

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Human courage was different from Amazon bravery. She saw that now. For all the suspicion and derision she'd heard from her mother and her sisters about the mortal world, Diana couldn't help but admire the people with whom she traveled. Their lives were violent, precarious, fragile, but they fought for them anyway, and held to the hope that their brief stay on this earth might count for something. That faith was worth preserving.

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Van Eck raised a brow. How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.

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I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I'd tried to bury that girl and the love she'd felt, just as I'd tried to bury my power. But I wouldn't make that mistake again.

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Where are you going? she called after me, her voice mocking. What's waiting for you out there? Nothing! I shouted at her. No one!

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Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain.

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He looked down at his boots. That berth belongs to you too. It will always be there when―if you want to come back.Inej could not speak. Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain. I don't know what to say.

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If you don't care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names.Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?Freedom, security, retribution.

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He doesn't need a donkey,— says Ana Kuya. —He has a wife.

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I opened my mouth, but the same words came to me again and again.I will not scream. I will not scream. I will not scream.

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I've always known that whatever marriage I made would be political. It would be about power, not love. But we might get lucky. In time, we might have both.''Or the third amplifier will turn me into a power-mad dictator and you'll have to kill me.''Yes, that would make for an awkward honeymoon.

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I just know there's no way to live without pain - no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.

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There is no pain like the pain of transformation.

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She tilted her head back, breathing deeply. It was a stone gray day, the sea a bleak slate broken up by whitecaps, the sky pleated with thick ripples of cloud. A hard wind filled the sails, carrying the little boat over the waves. 'It feels good to be this kind of cold,' she murmured. 'This kind?''Wind in your hair, sea spray on your skin. The cold of the living.

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She lived in happy solitude, and grew old, and never worried when her beauty faded, for in her reflection she always saw a free woman.

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Nina was about to snap that she didn't appreciate the sarcasm when she saw the expression on his face. He looked like someone had just given him a tuba full of puppies.

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Kaz reached into his coat pocket. Here, he said and handed Jesper a slender book with an elaborate cover.Are we going to read to each other?Just flip it open to the back.Jesper opened the book and peered at the last page, puzzled. So?Hold it up so we don't have to look at your ugly face.My face has character. Besides - oh!An excellent read, isn't it?Who knew I had a taste for literature?

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They wanted a Grisha queen. Mal wanted a commoner queen. And what did I want? Peace for Ravka. A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. An end to the guilt and dread that I woke to every morning. There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy's arms around me and watch the wind move the clouds.

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I was done with hesitation. It wasn't just that we'd run out of options, or that so much was riding on the firebird's power. I'd simply grown ruthless enough or selfish enough to take another creature's life. But I missed the girl who had shown the stag mercy, who had been strong enough to turn away from the lure of power, who had believed in something more. Another casualty of this war.

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Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.

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