{"author":"Marie Rutkoski","author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski","total_quotes":49,"quotes":[{"text":"Arin, you’re not listening. You’re not thinking clearly.”“You’re right. I haven’t been thinking clearly, not for a long time. But I understand now.” Arin pushed his tiles away. His winning hand scattered out of line. “You have changed, Kestrel. I don’t know who you are anymore. And I don’t want to.","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["angry","arin","change","fight","kestrel","kestrin","stubbornness"],"id":2642,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"},{"text":"Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while she knew there were people and responsibilities in the darkness beyond it, she couldn't see them. The flame of what she felt when she played made her deliciously blind.","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["escape","freedom","light","music","the-winner-s-curse"],"id":7407,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"},{"text":"Little Fists, what's wrong?","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["arin","cute","cuteness-overload","endearment","kestrel","kestrin","love"],"id":12937,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"},{"text":"Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time.'Her words silenced him, steadied him.Antecipation lifted within her like the fragance of a garden under the rain. She sat at the piano, touching the keys. 'Ready?'He smiled. 'Play.","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["arin","duet","kestrel","kestrin","love","music","pianist","piano","singer"],"id":20827,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"},{"text":"Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["sister","college","know "],"id":30200,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"},{"text":"The beauty of the flute was in its simplicity, in its resemblance to the human voice. It always sounded clear. It sounded alone. The piano, on the other hand, was a network of parts—a ship, with its strings like rigging, its case a hull, its lifted lid a sail. Kestrel always thought that the piano didn't sound like a single instrument but a twinned one, with its low and high halves merging together or pulling apart.","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["beautiful","music"],"id":30642,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"},{"text":"She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?He knew none of it. Had never asked for it. Kestrel had made her own choices. It was unfair to blame him.But she wanted to.","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["arin","betrayal","blame","kestrel","resentment","right-thing"],"id":31610,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"},{"text":"Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: the fact that she could make decisions like this, that she did have a mind for strategy, that people could be so easily become pieces in a game she was determined to win...","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["kestrel","military","strategy"],"id":33511,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"},{"text":"It dropped ice to the bottom of his stomach. He thought of the ruined bodies he'd seen, including the ones he himself had ruined. He realized that he had somehow expected that he'd never have to think again about the way people damage other people. The night of the invasion. Kestrel's back. His own. Roshar's scarred face. His own.","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["arin","bad-memories","brutality","damage","nighmare","scars","violence","war"],"id":44710,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"},{"text":"Yet he understood that there are some things you feel and others that you choose to feel, and that the choice doesn't make the feeling less valid.","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["arin","feelings"],"id":60344,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}