“Dear Gris, if there's one thing I can't abide it's a bad poet.” — Cat Hellisen Poet Copy Share Image
“Just because you are family doesn’t guarantee you’ll be friends.” — Cat Hellisen Family Copy Share Image
“It could be a true future that Ilven saw—she’s a Saint after all. Was . Was a Saint.” — Cat Hellisen Future Copy Share Image
“All futures are tinted by the way in which you choose to view them.” — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“Someone here died, I realize. Someone these people loved and cared for. I’m not the only person in the world tangled up… — Cat Hellisen Grief Copy Share Image
“Here is the last truth of Saints: We will always choose the path which brings us the most power. I spread my… — Cat Hellisen Truth Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing my mother taught me, it is how to wear the perfect mask. Never show them what you’re really… — Cat Hellisen Mask Copy Share Image
“I grit my teeth and wonder if it would matter if I strangled Dash in his sleep. Or poisoned his tea. I… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“No matter what the results, it is my choices that define me. And I will fight for them, even when it seems… — Cat Hellisen Choices Copy Share Image
“Carefully, I arrange the teapot, the little white cup, and the sugar bowl before me like an army. Defense? Or attack?” — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“She is somewhat”—I search for an appropriate response—“imposing.” “I think you mean terrifying.” “That too.” — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“If all I can feel is the very fraying edge of their grief, then I do not want to think how dark… — Cat Hellisen Grief Copy Share Image
“Before, I would have been powdered and perfumed, my hair done in an elaborate style by the patient fingers of servants. The… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“You are not one of the heroes in your fucking street operas,” Dash shouts, his voice strangled. “You’re not.” Verrel pauses and… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“Every now and then one stands up and orates at length to the unfortunate crowd, after which he bows to their scattered… — Cat Hellisen Applause Copy Share Image
“He sits down on the edge of the bed. “I wanted to talk to someone who wasn’t food or family.” There’s no… — Cat Hellisen Family Copy Share Image
“None of them will believe me. I drop any attempt to explain myself and just gracefully accept that people are going to… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“They really did you over,” she says, after peering at my bruised face. “This way, we’ll get you sorted out.” She’s not… — Cat Hellisen Abrupt Copy Share Image
“He’s twisting everything. He’s killing himself, killing innocents so that he can have his Gris-damned revenge on my brother. “This isn’t about… — Cat Hellisen Brother Copy Share Image
“Just sleep here.” At my sharp look he laughs. “I’ll take the floor, and I’ll get you to your job on time.… — Cat Hellisen Time Copy Share Image
“I picture my mother’s face when she must go out in public with Owen, the cold arrogant look she wears, as if… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“That’s all Mother needs to say. Our estate and House Malker’s are built on the high cliffs along Pelim’s Tooth. The Tooth,… — Cat Hellisen Parenting Copy Share Image
“This time I keep to the long shadows where the darkness gathers thickest, picking my way across the silvery damp grass until… — Cat Hellisen Edge of the world Copy Share Image
“There is something frosty about her, and when she talks I expect to feel her breath against my face like a winter… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“I pull my mostly dry shawl tighter around my shoulders and dip my head so that I don’t have to look into… — Cat Hellisen Anger Copy Share Image
“I want to scream. My friend doesn’t mumble. She doesn’t walk with her head down. She doesn’t quietly accept that her education… — Cat Hellisen Eternal friendship Copy Share Image
“I think I want to sleep,” I say. And I do, really, I do. The last thing I want is to be… — Cat Hellisen Psychology Copy Share Image
“Do you think I don’t care what happens to her?” He shakes his head. “No. I just think that you’ve forgotten what… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“Witch-sign, they said. Little eddies, like miniature storms breaking the surface of the ocean. Witch-signs rise up in great numbers, last a… — Cat Hellisen Real truth Copy Share Image
“No one I know has ever seen the matriarch of House Sandwalker, although she’s rumored to be an imposing sort. For a… — Cat Hellisen Matriarch Copy Share Image
“My mother still deludes herself that the letters are written out of more than a desire to spend as little time in… — Cat Hellisen Business Copy Share Image
“Are you asking me if I fuck my food?” The words sound overly harsh in the darkness. “I suppose I am.” — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“There’s a distinct bitter aftertaste of Lady’s Gown in the tea, and I welcome it. Anything to sleep without dreaming.” — Cat Hellisen Aftertaste Copy Share Image
“I will never let myself be caught like that—any marriage I make will be my own. A choice. A free one.” — Cat Hellisen Choice Copy Share Image
“Pelimburg is a city of rain and mist and spray. It’s supposed to be my home, but a lifetime lived in my… — Cat Hellisen Parenting Copy Share Image
“I want to be far away from that, from people who hate me because I was born into the Pelim name. And… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“Like all high-Lammers, I am a lucky accident of birth, gifted with a talent that can be expanded by something as simple… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“A going-away party. We dress things up with pretty words. My friend is not going on a pleasure jaunt, or a holiday… — Cat Hellisen Friendship Copy Share Image
