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Lines worth keeping.

Thirty quotes from the novel and the album. The taglines, the watercooler line, and the lines that landed.

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Tagline
“She put him in a cage.Three years later, his dragon chose her.”
The Black Bond — tagline
Promise
Tagline
“Two enemies. One dragon.One bond that cannot be lied across.”
The Black Bond — tagline
Promise
From the novel
“He had said the name. I had thought it would be the largest thing said in this room tonight. It was the third largest.”
Chapter 31 · Mira
Catharsis
From the novel
“They said the tenth always dies. I was the tenth, and the count was thirty-one of us in line.”
Chapter 1 · Mira
The Rite
From the novel
“I had asked for justice. I had not asked for this.”
Chapter 1 · Mira
The Rite
From the novel
“He said it like a courtesy. Like he had rehearsed the music of it in three years of silence.”
Chapter 3 · Mira
Tension
From the novel
“The second time it landed like a knife under wool.”
Chapter 3 · Mira
Tension
From the novel
“Three years and the language was intact. He had built it letter by letter in stone.”
Chapter 3 · Mira
Grief
From the novel
“The grief I had not known I had been saving was a wool I had not known to put down.”
Chapter 12 · Mira
Grief
From the novel
“I felt his attention like a hand I had not asked for. I felt his attention like a hand I had not refused.”
Chapter 16 · Mira
Yearning
From the novel
“He watched longer than I had been allowing myself.”
Chapter 16 · Mira
Yearning
From the novel
“I had been afraid of dying without him having said one true thing to me.”
Chapter 17 · Mira
Yearning
From the novel
“He said her name once. She said: I know.”
Chapter 19 · Mira & Aedran
Tenderness
From the novel
“The bond was the door we did not close.”
Chapter 19 · Mira & Aedran
Tenderness
From the novel
“The strike was right, and my mother is dead. Both can be true.”
Chapter 24 · Mira
Moral
From the novel
“The doctrine is a word, and the barn is a place. And both can be true.”
Chapter 24 · Mira
Moral
From the novel
“I have wanted you for ninety-two days. I would like to begin.”
Chapter 30 · Aedran
Yearning
From the novel
“And the latch was always mine to set. And the latch was always mine to lift.”
Chapter 30 · Mira
Yearning
From the novel
“A name three years held in his teeth. A name three years held in mine. And the room held it like a bell.”
Chapter 31 · Mira
Catharsis
From the novel
“I had not been a witness. I had been a brick.”
Chapter 35 · Mira
Catharsis
From the novel
“A country built out of one death I could not bury.”
Chapter 35 · Mira
Moral
From the novel
“I had not become what I came here to be. I had become someone else.”
Chapter 40 · Mira
Catharsis
Lyric
“And the not-afraid was the most frightening thing.”
Track 1 · The Tenth · Mira
The Rite
Lyric
“Five words and a hallway. Five words and the count we kept.”
Track 2 · As You Wish, Cadet · Mira
Tension
Lyric
“The vault did not let weather in. The vault did not let language out.”
Track 3 · Crayon · Aedran
Grief
Lyric
“And the wool stayed wool.”
Track 4 · The Tunic · Mira
Moral
Lyric
“The point was that we both knew what was on the other side. And neither of us moved.”
Track 5 · Hair · Mira
Yearning
Lyric
“The wind takes the wing it can take.”
Track 6 · The Wind Rises
Tension
Lyric
“There was a name we said once. And the saying was the bond.”
Track 7 · Mira · Mira & Aedran
Tenderness
Lyric
“The doctrine permits. The doctrine does not absolve.”
Track 8 · Both Can Be True · Mira
Moral
Lyric
“It was the third largest thing said in this room tonight. And it was the largest thing he had ever said to me.”
Track 10 · The Third Largest · Mira
Catharsis

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