Kristin Cashore

Seasparrow

Emily McMeans

Waiting is a way of making yourself as empty, small, nonexistent, and safe as possible.

Cassidy Nolan

They’re both so physical. I think it’s a sailor thing; sailors inhabit their bodies more fully than other people do. Jacky mostly hurls a sense of power and noise at me, accompanied by smirking, whereas now that Linny was pressed up against me, I noticed he smelled like salt and cold and was just my height. My same shoulder breadth too, and slender like me. My sailor twin. But prettier than me with that delicate face, and with those eyes lit like a honey jar sitting in a window.

Cats love Giddon. Probably they recognize an intellectual equal.

“I’ll leave you to it, habpva,” she said.

I said nothing, just watched her climb back up to the wheelhouse. Something fills my throat when people use that name. It’s not a bad feeling, exactly. But I can’t respond.

There’s nothing he’d rather be doing than cheering her on while she eats a. crumb. If I’m ever that fawningly devoted to someone, I hope someone will put me out of my misery.

“Please remember you have my life in your hands, because if you kill yourself, Bitterblue is going to kill me.”

Isn’t it nice, how much easier it is to have a flexible attitude when you’re getting what you want?

“All right,” he said diplomatically. “Well, you look like you sprang from a fairy tale about righteous heroes who screw the heads off of tyrants, which is usual. And also like you’re trying to keep your expression blank so that I can’t tell what you’re thinking or feeling about anything. Which is also usual.”

, and it’s also the name of a famous Dellian hero, a woman with scarlet, pink, and coppery hair who’s half human, half monster. She has the mind-controlling abilities of a Dellian monster, but the conscience of a human. A kind human. I saw her once, years ago. She’s terrifying and beautiful, and very, very old.

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