I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.

So you choose him?”Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.’ The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. ‘I choose no one.

To my dismay, he recovers quickly and smoothes his hair. “So you choose him?”That’s all this ever was. Jealously. Rivalry. All so shadow could defeat the flame.I have to throw my head back and laugh,...

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can’t believe this.

Anyone can betray anyone

They don’t know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It’s only their pride that can be truly hurt.

Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.

For their lives, for their children’s lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.

Red blood is just so hard to clean up” “You would know” I snap remembering Shade. “Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands

I’m a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can’t afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son of a snake.

Red in the head, Silver in the heart

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don’t know if I’ll ever smile again.