01UndatedI will accept this side effect. I will accept any amount of monsters my mind wants to give me, but I will not become a monster myselfMarissa Meyer / quote ↗
02UndatedJacin said nothing else. Neither did she. After the first ring was completed, she leaned her head against his thigh, making herself more comfortable as she picked out a sunburst orange. Overhead, Jacin sighed, and she felt the faintest brush of fingertips against her hair. A hint, a suggestion of togetherness, before he became a statue once more.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
03UndatedI haven't used my glamour since I was twelve years old,” she whispered, gaze piercing as if it were very important to her that Scarlet understand this. “Not since I was old enough to control it. That's why the visions come to me. That's why I'm going mad.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
04UndatedWinter shook her head, apology swimming in her amber eyes. Scarlet would have wanted to hug her if she hadn’t simultaneously wanted to strangle her.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
05UndatedShe would be brave. She would be heroic. She would make her own destiny.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
06UndatedThis is Winter," said Scarlet. "Princess Winter."Thorne guffawed and pushed a hand into his hair. "Are we running a boardinghouse for misplaced royalty around here, or what?Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
08UndatedWINTER SPOILER KINDACinder stared at his whitened knuckles and struggled for something meaningful to say. Her grand plan of revolution and change had just begun and already she felt like a failure. This seemed worse than failing the people of Luna, though. She'd failed the people she cared about most in the universe.Finally, she whispered, "I'm so sorry, Thorne.""Yeah," he said. "Me too.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
09UndatedThe huntsman took pity on her and said, "Run away into the woods, child, and never come back.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
10UndatedSo much importance pressed into so few words. It was just like Jacin.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
11UndatedWINTER SPOILER - KINDA IDRKCinder looked away. Though so much had changed between them since that night, it still felt like an ice pick in her heart when she remembered the way he'd looked at her, and his horrified words: You're even more painful to look at than she is.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
12UndatedThe young princess was as beautiful as daylight. She was more beautiful even than the queen herselfMarissa Meyer / quote ↗
13UndatedShe was not a girl of ice and glass at all, but a girl of sunshine and stardust.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
14UndatedShe screamed like an assassin was driving a knife into her stomach.She screamed like a thousand birds were pecking at her flesh.She screamed like the palace was burning down around her.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
15UndatedLevana's face was fiercely beautiful. Breathtaking in her viciousness.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
16UndatedNo. She will never be queen.” She swayed toward him, and he felt like he was being encircled by a python, smothered and choked.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
17UndatedAs it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
18UndatedThe cybernetic operation?""No, the sex change."The doctor's smile faltered."I'm joking.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
19UndatedMaybe the princess could save herself.""That sounds like a pretty good story too.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
20UndatedWith a nod, Thorne started down the street. 'This way.' Five steps later, he paused, pondered, turned around. 'No, no, this way.' 'We're dead.' 'No, I've got it now. It's this way.' 'Don't you have an address?' 'A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond.' 'If only we had a captain here.' He ignored her, marching down the street with spectacular confidence.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
21UndatedHe asked what she was in for and complimented the find workmanship of her metal extremities, but she ignored him, making him briefly question if he'd been separated from the female population for so long that he could be losing his charm. But that seemed unlikely.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
22UndatedWell," Cinder finally grumbled. "I guess that was pretty fast thinking." A relieved grin filled up Thorne's face. "We're having another moment, aren't we?" "If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, than I guess we are.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗