Cruel Quote by Marie Rutkoski

“How much easier everything would be if that were so. But Kestrel wouldn't let herself consider the truth. She didn't want to know its…

— Marie Rutkoski

“Kestrel studied her fingers, the way they wove together. She didn’t say Come back safely, and he didn’t say I always have. She said…

— Marie Rutkoski

“she had fought hotly against injustice, vanity, and blind, towering stupidity. Occasionally, on the battlefield where death was a reality, she had won. But…

— Anne Perry

“A lump of dread jellied in her gut when she realized what she had done, the game she was in. These men controlled half…

— Dawn Patitucci

“people found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on Jeopardy. She…

— Karin Slaughter

“It was against her principles to allow anyone else to fight her battles and perhaps be injured or killed in her place.”

— Christine Feehan

“Now, sitting among the Biters and getting a glimpse of what battle against humans looked like from their perspective, she began to see things…

— Mainak Dhar

“...she was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the evidence before…

— Chinua Achebe

“She misunderstood my method, in my opinion, not realizing that my approach, rather obscure to those unfamiliar, was based on the idea that in…

— Jean-Philippe Toussaint

“Her throat was tight, her nerves singing, the way they always did before she walked into battle. This was the part she liked least,…

— Cassandra Clare

“and deep down, she trusted no one but herself. That was her nature and, besides, she hated depending on other people’s speed and accuracy”

— Steffen Jacobsen

“she thought that after what she had been through during the invasion she would stop being petty and grow up, grow wise and strong,…

— Milan Kundera