Top 27 Melinda Salisbury Quotes
#1. You're here," he says, and his voice is like sunshine, like honey, it's warm and rich and moreish. "I'm so very glad." Where Silas's voice is spikes and edges, every word a warning, this man's voice is smooth, velvety and beckoning.
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#2. If I come to you, I want it to be because I am choosing you, for no reason other than that. I don't want for to ever doubt it.
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#3. That's the problem with fairy tales, they change with the telling.
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#5. Forgive me again." He lifts the carafe and refreshes his goblet. "What happened to those two children who laughed at dandelion fuzz?" he says softly. "Are they gone forever, do you think?
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#6. I can see the things he doesn't say, because they're written all over him.
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#7. Scarecrow queen. Nothing but a dupe, alone in a field, hoping to keep the crows at bay.
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#8. ... but for now it's too great a pleasure to stay in my own cottage, with my own books, and do exactly what I want to do.
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#9. Burn all the food, and people will starve, weaken, and turn on one another. Destroy the temples and their acolytes, and the people will have nowhere to turn, no sanctuary, no charity. No hope.
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#10. How could there be different Gods, Lief?"
"I don't believe there are any at all," he says quietly. "But I believe there are men and women whose lives are made easier by believing someone is watching over them.
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#11. When will I be sure?"
"Sure of what?"
"Of me. Of who I am. Of what I'm here for. When will I know?"
"Never. You never will. No matter what happens. You will always have those moments of doubt and you will always make mistakes.
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#13. I've learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I'm alone and I've never been so content.
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#15. We're to be married. Does it matter if I permit it?"
"To me it does, yes," says Merek. "And I imagine you, like me, appreciate the illusion of having a choice, even when illusion is all it is.
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#16. Fortune favors the bold." I smile weakly.
"So does death," she counters immediately. "The craven tend to live much longer than the heroic.
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#17. I am not cunning...I'm good at seeing around obstacles is all.
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#18. But I want you," he smiles at me. "Not just to make me a king. I've always wanted you. Despite it all, you are still the bride I would choose. I do choose you.
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#19. We're not Lormerians, with their temples and their living goddesses, and their creepy royal family. We're people of science, and reason.
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#20. In every fairy tale there is a kernel of truth, and that is the truth of this one. For him, I am poison. I am his death. And I will deliver.
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#21. People don't forget what it is to be loved. No matter how young or old you are, or for how long you had it, you always remember what it is to feel loved.
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#22. Were you disappointed?"
She takes a deep breath, looking down at her hands. "My heart was. My head wasn't. Most days I'm at war with myself. My head wins, usually. And for that I'm glad.
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#23. Enough. I don't have time for this; self-pity's a luxury that I can't afford.
Like bread. Or pride.
Enough, Errin. There's work to do. Get up.
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#24. And that, my girl, is the secret. Quake all you must on the inside. But on the outside you must be stone. And you never know; with enough practice it might become the truth.
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#25. Why do I matter to you?" I say, my voice breaking.
"You don't."
"Then why are you doing this?"
"Because I can. Because I slept for five hundred years and now I want some sport.
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#26. High in the Tower of Love, the last remaining tower of Tallith, he rests on a bier, not living, not dead. He doesn't age, or change, needs no sustenance. He sleeps. He waits
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#27. That's the trouble with knowing things: you can't un-know them. Once you let yourself look at them, or say them aloud, they become real.
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