Eilis O'Neal Quotes

Nothing's really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I'll be hopelessly outnumbered.

I'd feel a lot better about this if that spell had worked," Kiernan hissed.
"Don't tell me that I'm going to have to drag you along," I whispered back. "This is a real adventure, Kiernan. Just think, if we manage to get out of all this without being killed or imprisoned, you'll have such stories to tell the ladies at court."
"Are you sure that this isn't blasphemy? We're going to desecrate the grave of the Nameless God's chosen ones."
"We aren't going to desecrate it," I insisted. "We're just going to look around it. And besides, since when have you worried about blasphemy?"
He snorted, but softly. "Let's go, then.

There might be nowhere I would be at home. I might always be straddling two worlds, and finding solace in neither.

I love you, Sinda," he said, not shakily but with certainty. "I have for--oh, years--before I even knew that I did. I loved you when you were the princess, and I love you now. I just want you to be happy. And I want you to be safe. I don't care if you're the Queen of Thorvaldor or a pig keeper in Mossfeld.

Or maybe they weren't changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.

So, yes, I will marry you. Someday. If you'll have me," he said modestly.
"Of course I will, you idiot," I said with a shriek, and threw myself into his arms.

He watches you, Sinda. Like you're his best treasure, only he can't think of a way to slip you into is pocket. Hasn't he-of-the-throwing-daggers been brave enough to mention it?

I did not have all the pieces of myself intact but the shattered ones lay quieter than they had gradually being smoothed over so that they no longer cut me as often.

I just want to be me - I just want to be useful and ... content. I want to stop
wondering if I'll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose one that I can look at without feeling like I'm less than I was.

This was what I had now. Just this.
I had to make it enough.

Still," I continued, "we don't have to worry about that until we find the princess. And to do that, I think we need to know if it's Neomar or Melaina we're dealing with. She said that she wished her family had been able to attend her investiture. So maybe she's related to one of them."
"But how can we find that out, without walking up to them and asking, 'So, your sister wasn't the oracle who betrayed Thorvaldor, was she?' I think, maybe, that might make them suspicious.