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' . . . there was no sense in trying my hand at poetry because I hadn't seen anything worth writing about.'

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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'I'm going to trust you to do what you do best—find a path that no one else has thought of, break in through the door that no one thought to bar. Find another way.'

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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They locked stares then, Tya and Relos Var, and something passed between them. Tya looked at him the way one might look at a person once loved, someone who had hurt them deeply: with regret and sadness and no small measure of hate. They were not friends, but maybe they had been once. Maybe even more than that.

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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'I'm not your enemy,' Relos Var replied. 'But you are,' said the Goddess of Magic, 'and our sin is how long it took all of us to realize.'

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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And these weren't just any gods, after all: the appearance of the Three Sisters was the sort of omen capable of dooming emperors and cursing whole countries.

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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My heart leapt as I heard her voice, although I had only ever heard it before in a dream.

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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'What do you leave to the world that made it even the tiniest bit better than it would have been without you?'

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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'What have you done with yourself but spread misery?'

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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'You never had a life worth living.'

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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'What sacrifice were you unwilling to burn on the altar of revenge?'

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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She had always known me, known me before I was born and was now simply waiting for me to return to her.

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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I reached out. I reached inward. I despaired.

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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It was a low blow, a surprise attack, and the stunned look Kihrin gave her was very nearly heartbreaking.

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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There was so much that he wanted to change, so much that he was powerless to change because of who he was.

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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Alex Dimitrov, from “Together and by Ourselves”

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. . . dragons aren't creatures who know magic, they are magic.

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

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They did not scream, even though the horror in their eyes made it clear it was all they wanted in the whole world.

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings