Shadowcaster
Cinda Williams Chima
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Why is it always easier to be optimistic about somebody else’s worries?” Adrian said with a bitter laugh.”
“Sometimes you have to get away to remember who you are. Believe in yourself, Lyss. You’re strong and smart enough to do this job. Never let anyone tell you different.”
“Didn't you say that the key is to live in the moment?" Metelon asked. "That's the excuse people use for foolish behavior.”
“Even if the job you’re assigned is not to your liking, a Matelon will see it done.”
“A battle is like a deadly sort of dance, Lyss thought. We learn the steps by sparring in the practice yards, by marching up and down the field in the hope that we’ll remember the moves when we’re distracted by the smell of blood and the shrieks of the wounded anddeath howling toward us from all sides. We go into battle to the cadence of drums and guns, but our dance cards are blank. We have no idea who we’ll dance with that day, when death might cut in, and who’ll leave the floor alive.”
“She spotted Cam Staunton in his dress blues, scouting the dessert table. As she watched, he scooped up two biscuits and stuffed them into his mouth. When he turned and saw Lyss watching, his face went scarlet, which contrasted nicely with the powdered sugar around his mouth.”
“Pirates having a tea party? Not possible.”
“Matelon gripped both her hands. “We are soldiers,” he said. “We are not game pieces on a board. Don’t let them play us. Give this thing a chance.” Lyss gently pulled free. “You’re wrong, Captain,” she said. “We never had a chance. At the end of the day, that is all that we are—game pieces. If you don’t know that by now, you soon will.”
“Adrian. Adrian was alive, and he was at Oden’s Ford. And no one had told her these four long years, because they thought she would do something stupid.”
“The northern soldiers are just men,” Hal told the men in his command. “And women,” he amended. “When you cut them, they bleed, just like us.”
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