I’m as old as both of you,” she said, even though she suspected she wasn’t, “and I’m smarter, and I can probably fight as well as you can.

Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him.

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

If I wanted to stun anyone at dinner, I'd hit them in the face.

Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.

Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.