Book: Shadow and bone

I made him ambitious. I made him proud. When the time came, I was supposed to be the one to stop him. Do you think that I don't love my son. Love, which is why I won't let him commit the unpardonable.

I have a habit of hopelessly wrong.

- You always say what I think?
Less than half of the cases.

That life is infinite? Yes the universe is human greed.

I always thought that if you're beautiful, it makes life easier.

The wind inflates the sails. They are again alone, as a child, when hiding from older children, from the wrath of Ana kui, from the monsters lurking in the dark. They are again homeless orphans, but they have each other. And they have hope for a life on the other side of the sea.

"But what about the people that you left?" - there is a voice in my head that I desperately wanted to ignore. Ambassadors, soldiers, Grisha... I've doomed them to certain death and didn't even killed Darkling. Tore him in pieces valkry? Avenged Lee lost men and women from the valley of Tula Black Heretic? Or perhaps this very minute he came to me in dead spaces Nemora, ready to bring down the inevitable retribution?

- You can't leave us to die, Alina! - continued to burn Darkling. - If you go to this step, then you know where it will lead you.
I developed hysterical laughter. I knew. Knew that I would become like him.
- Once you asked me for pardon, said the voice of his words over the dead lands of the Canyon, through the hungry cries of his monstrous creations. - Is your idea of mercy?

Darkling looked back to see the ambassadors and the representative of the king. Their faces frozen in the same mask of shock and horror. Whatever he saw, it to satisfy him. He opened his hands, and the darkness has ceased to burst forth. The growl subsided. I heard the agonizing cries of those who are lost in the darkness, howling Volker, gunshots. The docks disappeared. The village of Novosibirsk too.
We were looking at a new area of the Canyon. The hint is clear: today it was the Western Dressing. Tomorrow Darkling with the same ease can incite the Canyon to the North Ferdy or South Suhana. It will absorb the whole of the country and will drive their enemies into the sea. Many people I helped kill? How many more deaths waiting for me?

- When? hoarsely he asked.
Tomorrow. In Shady Canyon.
The guy gulped, and I saw how much it hurt that confession, but he tried not to let on:
- Okay.
I made a sound partly like a laugh and part sob.
- Only you could know about the inevitable death and say "okay."

- Pisses me off that I ever thought... that I...
You're blaming me for my every mistake? For every girl that I liked? For each of said stupidity? If we start to list all our mistakes, it is obvious who will be the winner.

Killer! - I bellowed. Monster!
- Yes, all of the above.
I hate you! - I spat. He shrugged his shoulders.
- Soon you will get tired of hate. And from everything else.

- Are you still alive, ' I whispered to myself in the dark. - Still free.

Through the crowd to me was the way Jack. Princes, Dukes and wealthy merchants turned around and was staring after her, but she ignored them. "Don't waste your time, I wanted to say. Her heart belongs to lanky the fabricator who likes to party."