Extraits

I think the greatest power is belief, for what is a god without it?

Tout pouvait s’écrouler. Des tours qui frôlent les cieux, des maisons plus riches que les empires, des séraphins brillants autrefois dans la confidence de Dieu. Même les familles censées vous aimer sans réserve. Rien n’était immuable, sauf le changement.

Dix ans plus tôt, l'Ordre avait déclaré éteinte la lignée de la maison Vanth.

L'Ordre avait menti.

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Ce qui semble cruel peut plus tard fleurir et s'illuminer.

Luxure lui avait appris qu'un coeur brisé faisait une excellente arme, car ses morceaux étaient redoutablement tranchants.

Ce soir-là, le Palais ressemblait à un rêve diabolique de paradis, peuplé de loups en or aux dents étincelantes, couverts d'étoiles blanches comme du lait.

Ne capture pas leur coeur. Vole leur imagination. C'est bien plus efficace.

Kisses were not supposed to be like this. Kisses were to be witnessed by stars, not held in the presence of stale death. But as the bones rose around them, Spoiler(cliquez pour révéler)Laila saw fractals of white. They looked like pale constellations, and she thought that, perhaps, for a kiss like this, even hell would put forth stars.

Gluttony was Séverin's favorite father.

(…)

He taught him how to eat and how to hunger for things out of reach and how to steal without ever looking like you lack for something. He taught him all his tricks and all he knew until the day he took his nightly fifty-year-old aged tawny port with a dash of rat poison.

(…)

Of all his fathers, he thought of Gluttony the most.

"Half of winning, my dear wallet, is simply looking victorious."

"Oh, Zofia," she said. "Don't be sad. Everyone hides."