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“What if magic is just a word for power beyond our understanding, like the gods possess?”
― A Day of Fallen Night
― A Day of Fallen Night

“A queen should learn the ways of watching. Like a falcon, she waits for her moment to strike. She also knows when she need not strike at all â€� when her shadow, her presence, is more than enough.”
― A Day of Fallen Night
― A Day of Fallen Night

“My mother told me we are all like roses. I always thought it means that we opened our petals, took our true form, and gradually withered. But perhaps we never stop growing. If women are flowers, we are not roses, but day's eyes - blooming not once, but over and over, each time the light touches us.”
― A Day of Fallen Night
― A Day of Fallen Night

“Some people need to call others evil, so they can seem pure and righteous in comparison, or to purge contempt they hold in secret for themselves.”
― A Day of Fallen Night
― A Day of Fallen Night

“Some part of me has always looked for how I brought these things on myself. (...) And if I could figure out where I went wrong, they wouldn't call me stupid or throw things or strike me.
There had to be a reason for it. That made it something I could control. Something I could hope to stop.
It's the worst kind of relief for someone to say it was never in my control.”
― Little Thieves
There had to be a reason for it. That made it something I could control. Something I could hope to stop.
It's the worst kind of relief for someone to say it was never in my control.”
― Little Thieves
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