Top 77 Arin Quotes
#1. I agree," Arin said, "under one condition. You mentioned emissaries. There will be one emissary from the empire. It will be you.
Marie Rutkoski
#2. You haven't asked me about Arin," Roshar said as he rode alongside him.
"What?"
"The tiger. Not the surly human.
Marie Rutkoski
#3. Kestrel raised one brow. How very surprising. Didn't you just make a promise and ask me to trust your word? Really, Arin. You must sort out your lies and your truths or even you won't know which is which.
Marie Rutkoski
#4. It was a sin to break a deathbed promise.
Arin left without making one.
Marie Rutkoski
#5. Later, Kestrel wished she had spoken then, that no time had been lost. She wished that she'd had the courage that very moment to tell Arin what she'd finally known to be true: that she loved him with the whole of her heart.
Marie Rutkoski
#6. The guard hit Kestrel across the face. "I said, what did you give him?"
You had a warrior's heart, even then.
Kestrel spat blood. "Nothing," she told the guard. She thought of her father, she thought of Arin. She told her final lie. "I gave him nothing.
Marie Rutkoski
#7. You might not think of me as your friend,' Kestrel told Arin, 'but I think of you as mine.
Marie Rutkoski
#8. No, it didn't hurt anymore to think about Kestrel. He'd been a fool, but he'd had to forgive himself for worse. Sister, father, mother. As for Kestrel ... Arin had some clarity on who he was: the sort of person who trusted too blindly, who put his heart where it didn't belong.
Marie Rutkoski
#9. She didn't like the way he was right. How she listened. She wondered if there was any difference between how she listened to him and how Arin listened to his god.
Marie Rutkoski
#10. Excuse me? Does anyoone know where I can find a Mr. and Mrs. Froste? They told me to meet them here this afternoon. Apparently they want to discuss a job. Something that could 'really make history'. Their words.
- Arin
Matt De La Pena
#11. Arin wished Roshar wouldn't do this, wouldn't slip on false arrogance as if it were mourning garb worn in the service of a joke.
Marie Rutkoski
#12. I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.
Madhuri Dixit
#13. Brother, you are mad," said the queen. "He loves me," Roshar protested. The cub was sleeping huddled against Rosher's leg. "And when it has grown, and is large enough to eat a man?" "Then I'll make Arin take care of him.
Marie Rutkoski
#14. Let Arin surprise us," Roshar said. "That's how we do things. He comes up with something brilliant and I take the credit.
Marie Rutkoski
#15. Arin used to clutch his head in disgusted wonder at how fascinated he'd once been by the daughter of the Valorian general. He used to sting at her rejection. Now, though, the thought of Kestrel gave him a cold relief. Ice on a bruise.
Marie Rutkoski
#16. She'd wanted to put her fear inside a white box and give it to Arin. You, too, she would tell him. I fear for you. I fear for me if I lost you.
Marie Rutkoski
#17. Arin, who had set hooks into her heart and drawn her to him so that she wouldn't see anything but his eyes.
Arin was her enemy
Marie Rutkoski
#18. Arin's god slapped him across the face. Pay attention, death demanded. Arin did, and after that, no one could touch him. When
Marie Rutkoski
#19. Arin smiled. It was a true smile, which let her know that all the others he had given her were not.
Marie Rutkoski
#20. Arin thought of Cheat, Tensen, Kestrel. He wondered if some part of him was drawn to lies. What was it that made him so easy to deceive?
Marie Rutkoski
#21. A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers.
Kestrel looked away from Arin.
She swore to herself that she would never look back
Marie Rutkoski
#22. Arin pulled her onto his lap. He held her shaking form, tucked his face into the crook of her cold neck as she sobbed against him. He murmured that he loved her more than he could say. He promised that he would always choose her first.
Marie Rutkoski
#23. He hadn't been blessed by the god of death.
Arin was the god.
Marie Rutkoski
#24. Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time."
Her words silenced him, steadied him.
Antecipation lifted within her like the fragance of a garden under the rain. She sat at the piano, touching the keys. "Ready?"
He smiled. "Play.
Marie Rutkoski
#25. Sudden distrust slicked down Arin's spine.
Roshar raised his hand to quiet the roaring crowd, and Arin was reminded of Cheat relishing his role as an auctioneer. A stone rose in his throat. Kestrel's hand tightened on his, but Arin no longer felt wholly there.
Marie Rutkoski
#26. She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. "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.
Marie Rutkoski
#27. She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?
He knew none of it. Had never asked for it. Kestrel had made her own choices. It was unfair to blame him.
But she wanted to.
Marie Rutkoski
#28. The crowd cleared a path for them. They returned to their horses and mounted.
"See?" Roshar said, "wasn't that fun?"
Arin looked ready to shove the prince off his horse.
Marie Rutkoski
#29. You could offer her a seat," Arin said.
"Ah, but I have only two chairs in my tent, little Herrani, and we are three. I suppose she could always sit on your lap.
Marie Rutkoski
#30. Kestrel felt Arin's tension, the way he looked at the prince. Arin's worry was plain, his hands still at his sides yet slightly open, as if his friend might shatter and Arin needed to be ready to catch the pieces.
Marie Rutkoski
#31. She had dreams that shamed her in the morning, dreams where Ronan gave her a white powdered cake, yet spoke in Arin's voice. I made this for you, he said. Do you like it?
The powder was so fine that she inhaled its sweetness, but always woke before she could taste.
Marie Rutkoski
#32. Arin kept company with death, but death was not all that lived inside him.
A girl in his heart. In his home.
Waiting for him.
Marie Rutkoski
#33. People of the hundred," he said, using an ancient Herrani phrase Arin was surprised he knew, "who leads you?"
So many cried Arin's name that it no longer sounded like his name.
Marie Rutkoski
#34. So you give me nothing."
"When have I ever given you anything?"
Softly, Arin said, "You gave me much, once.
Marie Rutkoski
#35. Sometimes you think you want something," Arin told him, "when in reality you need to let it go.
Marie Rutkoski
#36. Little Arin has missed me. I will not be parted from him."
"Would you consider changing his name?"
"No."
"What if I begged?"
"Not a chance."
"Roshar, the tiger has grown."
"And what a sweet big boy he is.
Marie Rutkoski
#38. Arin would trade his heart for a snarled knot of thread if it meant he would never have to see Kestrel again.
Marie Rutkoski
#39. Arin imagined how, if he could, he would kneel before the boy he had been. He'd cradle himself to his chest, let the child bury his wet face against his shoulder. Shh, Arin would tell him. You will be lonely, but you' ll become strong. One day, you will have your revenge.
Marie Rutkoski
#40. Because of meat."
"It's for his tiger," said the cook.
Arin palmed his face, eyes squeezed shut. "Your tiger."
"He's very particular," said Roshar.
"You can't bring the tiger to the banquet.
Marie Rutkoski
#41. After ten years of slavery, Arin knew obedience in its many forms. The fear of pain, the gritty promise to oneself of vengeance. Hopelessness. A grinding monotony broken just often enough by the strap or fist.
Marie Rutkoski
#42. No, Arin. Sit down. Other wise you'll make an ass out of yourself, and that role is mine.
Marie Rutkoski
#43. Arin, why are you so transparent? Whenever you worry, you start fixing things. Draining nasty gunk from a hoof is the least of it. I don't know what's worse, watching you do that or knowing how hard it will always be for you to keep yourself to yourself.
Marie Rutkoski
#44. 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.
Marie Rutkoski
#45. Here." He jerked at Arin's armor and began unbuckling it. "Stop bleeding. Oh, just look at you. Arin, you're a mess.
Marie Rutkoski
#46. Kestrel lifted her gaze. As he met her eyes - an extremely light brown, the lightest shade before brown becomes gold - Arin knew that he was a fool. A thousand times a fool.
Marie Rutkoski
#47. Kestrel let the words echo in her mind. There had been a supple strength to his voice. An unconscious melody. Kestrel wondered if Arin knew how he exposed himself as a singer with every simple, ordinary word. She wondered if he meant to hold her in thrall.
Marie Rutkoski
#49. We don't get to choose our blood families, but we do get to decide how to talk to them, how much to tell them, and how open to be with them about the core of who we are.
Erynn Rowan Laurie
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
#51. He'd believed it. She couldn't believe that he believed it. Sometimes, she hated him for that.
Marie Rutkoski
#53. The general's daughter? We'd be fools not to. You talk about her as if she's made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.
Marie Rutkoski
#54. I had to learn that I knew nothing. I also had to learn that it was okay to think for myself and that my happiness, my true salvation, was not dependent on the approval of others.
Gregory Michael Brewer
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
#55. She would have stopped him. She would have wished herself deaf, blind, made of unfeeling smoke. She would have stopped his words out of terror, longing. The way terror and longing had become indistinguishable.
Marie Rutkoski
#57. I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.
Arin Paul
#58. If I die, you'll survive. If you die, it will destroy me.
Marie Rutkoski
#59. Come closer, and I will tell you.
But he forgot. He kissed her, and became lost in the exquisite sensation of his skin becoming too tight for his body. He murmured other things instead. A secret, a want, a promise. A story, in its own way.
Marie Rutkoski
#60. Wicca offered real, not pretended, means for the individual to express the art, beauty, and reality of ritual, including magic, in the here and now.
Paul Turnbull
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
#61. A lovely fatigue claimed him. He lay down on the grass and listened. He thought about how Kestrel had slept on the palace lawn and dreamed of him. When she had told him this, he'd wished that it had been real. He tried to imagine the dream, then found himself dreaming.
Marie Rutkoski
#62. A lover? Maybe. Something tender, anyway. But tender like a bruise.
Marie Rutkoski
#63. He said, "How can the inconsequence of your life not shame you?"
He said, "How do you not feel empty?"
I do, she thought as she pushed through the library doors and let them thud behind her. I do.
Marie Rutkoski
#64. If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.
Lise Arin
#65. I won't play you because even when I win, I lose. It's never been just a game between us.
Marie Rutkoski
#66. How did you ever survive, little slave, with that mouth of yours?
Marie Rutkoski
#67. Will you come with me?"
"Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.
Marie Rutkoski
#68. I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.
Arin Paul
#69. His dark head bowed, became lost in its own shadow.
Marie Rutkoski
#70. The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.
Arin Paul
#71. It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.
Marie Rutkoski
#72. People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold all sorts of conversations and learn from each other in a way that would not happen if there were the walls of ignorant prejudice between us.
Oisce
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
#73. I believe in religion, I believe in religious expression, and I believe that all gods are one God. I do not lie when I pray in the words of another religion, because I believe.
Oisce
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
#74. Sometimes we forget to, or feel guilty when, we take time to nourish our own souls. It is not selfish to spiritually fill ourselves because we need that time to find the delicate balance in our lives. Only then can we truly be of service to others.
Debra Siegrist
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
#75. She had done everything she could. And he didn't even know.
Marie Rutkoski
#76. Yet he understood that there are some things you feel and others that you choose to feel, and that the choice doesn't make the feeling less valid.
Marie Rutkoski
#77. It occured to him that he might have to grow comfortable with happiness, because it might not abandon him this time.
Marie Rutkoski
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