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416 pages, ebook
First published March 3, 2015
“I’m going to miss you when I wake up,” she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.
“Don’t wake up,” he said.
“I don’t mind being a moth.I would probably start eating silk if it meant that I could fly.”
“Arin hadn’t fallen asleep on the deck of his strangely still ship, yet, it felt as if he’d been dreaming. As if dreams and memories and lies were the same thing.”
“Kestrel saw all of her mistakes,strung in such a crowded,ugly line that it was difficult to tell which one had come first.”
“Sometimes you think you want something,when in reality you need to let it go.”
"Arin and I are impossible," [Kestrel] said quietly. "Dangerous. It is best that we keep our distance from each other."
"He wondered when he would stop sharing things he shouldn't. It was a bad habit."
"Elinor frowned. 'Herran is a colony. This is your home.'
'Herran was a colony. Now it's an independent territory.'
'By the grace of our emperor.'"
“I wanted to trust you,” he whispered. “I tried. But I couldn’t lie to myself hard enough.”
“This voice you’ve been using, that bright one… do you think I don’t recognize it? It’s the sound of you laying a trap. Of you hiding behind your own words. And I know that the way you’ve been talking is not you. Say what you want about me, about what happened between us, about the shape of the sun and the color of the grass and any other truths in this world you want to deny. Deny everything until the gods strike you down. But you can’t say that I don’t know you.”