Maria V. Snyder quotes

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder. (Maria V. Snyder)
But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.
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Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.
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I'll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.
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Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo.
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To Yelena, our newest food taster. May you last longer than your predecessor.
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His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer.
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I did what any good rat would do. I bit down on the guard's hand until I tasted blood.
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You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.
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Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.
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Besides, thinking kind thoughts about Valek could be extremely dangerous. I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat. (Maria V. Snyder)
I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.
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I hate a mystery. I would have let the identity of the Commander's successor remain a secret, as I have for fifteen years, but tonight's opportunity was too tempting. With eight drunken Generals sleeping it off, I could have danced on their beds without waking them.
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They actually think I would abandon the Commander. they have no concept of loyalty.
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Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever.
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The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet.
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One, and two, and three, four, five. Keep fighting like this and you will die," Janco sang.
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I didn't want or expect this. But I couldn't resist you.
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I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.
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I understood that Valek's loyalty to the Commander was without question. His blue eyes held a fierce determination and I knew in my soul that Valek would take his own life after he had taken mine.
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I took three steps and was wrapped in his arms, where I belonged. No confusion here. No worries here. No troubles here. (Maria V. Snyder)
Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.
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Bad dreams are ghosts of our fears and worries, haunting us while we sleep. I doubt Valek is in trouble.
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Trust, Kiki said, Trust is peppermints.
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I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn't make verbal threats were the most dangerous.
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