“They are saying I ran home with my tail between my legs.”(94)
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Arsinoe was talking about how the poisoners were talking about her being weak and comparing her to a scared animal. |
“Arsinoe’s stomach as tight as a fist.”(101)
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This quote uses a simile to compare Arsinoe’s stomach to a clenched fist in order to explain the feelings she was feeling. |
“He enters the room ahead of her, so he does not see it when she takes up a short-bladed knife.”(137)
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Katharine is about to avenge her near death by attacking her former boyfriend who through her off a cliff. |
‘“Bree can hardly slice a sandwich.”’(155)
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They’re talking about Bree because they need her to do a task but she isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. |
“She has taken down her hood, and red hair blazes past her shoulders.” (157)
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I like how they compare her hair to fire, it’s a pretty picture to imagine. |
“In the clearing, beneath the bent-over tree, Arsinoe lets Madrigal take fresh blood from her arm.”(159)
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Arsinoe is dealing with low magic and I think something will go terribly wrong in the next few chapters. |
“‘She is not clever.” Elizabeth’s voice is low as she wipes her eyes with the back of her hand. Mirabella puts her arms around her. “She is cruel.”(158)
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They’re talking about Katharine because in this book she starts off sweet and innocent, then gets thrown off a cliff by her boyfriend, survives the fall, and comes back cruel and full of anger. |
“Low magic always wields its own will.”(161)
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Low magic is this books equivalent of dark magic and Arsinoe is unable to control it. |
“I kept seeing images of my sisters… memories.”(163)
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Arsinoe starts getting visions of how her sisters grew up, maybe it has something to do with them being triplets? |
“‘Stop being such a child! If you win, you get to live, and that’s better than nothing!”(172) | Jules compared her queen to that of a child because she was so afraid of losing her best friend, she wanted Arsinoe to fight with everything in her. |
“‘I wasn’t going to hit you… not any harder than usual,”’(172) | Jules says this to Arsinoe in a sarcastic way that I can relate to my life because this is how my sisters and I interact. |
“In the market, there are so many white-robed priestesses that it looks like a raid.”(186) | This is a simile that describes how the town looked with all the priestesses during the festival. |
“Mirabella expected glares from poisoners.”(191)
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She expected to be treated with disrespect in the land, but she got no reaction out of them. |
“She is arm in arm with her suitor, the handsome boy with the golden-blond hair.”(191)
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Mirabella had eyes on her sister’s suitor much like how she had eyes on Jule’s boyfriend. |
“Arsinoe runs from the gathering at the cove.”(197)
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When she found out her friend died, she couldn’t handle being in the same area as his body. |
“Maybe she was mistaken, and the lanterns she saw from Joseph’s window were an illusion or a dream.”(207)
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She missed her friend so much that she started to see hallucinations of him and started to believe they were real. |