Matthias Helvar Quotes

“She’d shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone he’d ever known.”

“They fear as I once feared you,” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina.”

“I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath. It was the vow of the druskelle to Fjerda. And now it was Matthias’ promise to her.”

“And if she was, then Grisha weren’t inherently evil. They were like anyone else—full of the potential to do great good, and also great harm. To ignore that would make Matthias the monster.”

“Do you have a different name for killing when you wear a uniform to do it?”

“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”