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Some last words should never be said.

Which weakness shall I tell her? "I walk funny," I say, and she's satisfied with that. (inside joke)

Betrayal tends to familiarize one with weapons.

Our fingers unlace so slowly that I am certain some part of me has been left behind on her fingertips.

I will find you.
In the farthest corner, I will find you.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

There are no rules when it comes to survival

I suppose if we're going to fall in love all over again, kissing will be part of it.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It's a law or something.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

I am a soldier in my father's army.

Father says it will come in time. "Time heals," he says.
I don't tell him that I don't know what time is.

The Komizar rages with enough venom to make your general look like a whimpering kitten.

I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.

But you're everything I want. Remember that. I love you, Lia. Not a title. And not because a piece of paper says I should. Because I do.

I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence. I would not truly feed your face to the hogs. It might make them sick.

Don't be afraid, child,
The stories are always there.

Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky,

I don't care what mistakes I made or what mistakes you made. I'd make every single one again, if that was the only way to be with you

I woke up on the floor of Lia's wagon and thought she had finally planted an ax in my skull.

The rules of reason build towers that reach past the treetops. The rules of trust build towers that reach past the stars.

Maybe when you're about to die, secrets don't seem so important to keep.

Eyes don't breath. I know that much. But her eyes look breathless

Or maybe I'm a masochist and I like girls who are as annoying as hell! Don't try to analyze me, Jenna. I am what I am.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

'cause only the Lord knows the heart of a man. ain't our job to be second-guessing.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

...and time becomes a forgotten detail.

I didn't need to fall in love with him again. I had never fallen out.

It's not an easy thing to tell the girl that you love more than life itself that you're going to marry someone else.

Sometimes it's the smallest and most innocent things you have to watch out for

Words have longer lives than people.

Were any losses worth the gains?

They placed me on a pedestal from the day I was born! What choice did I have but to be perfect!

I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.

Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.

I used to be someone.

I would never betray Venda."
"Sometimes we're all pushed to do things we thought we could never do.

Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.

And today, like each time they have landed on my hand for the past two hundred years, I wonder at the weight of a sparrow.

There are no rules in survival.

This was something I'd never been trained for. There were no military strategies or drills to prepare me for the daily torment of not killing someone.

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.

Tell me who I am. (29)

Being like everyone else is highly overrated.

It made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

When I was halfway between one world and another, a moment of clarity broke through. This is what it was to die. *

Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

I was becoming stronger in some ways but weaker in others.

She whispers it aloud, 'lorelei.' the sound makes her ache, makes the word even more beautiful, even more real.

A perfect night... a perfect forever

Be brave, be victorious

Dreams and knowing are two different things.

Was it possible to ever really know anyone, or was I simply the worst judge of character in all of history?

There was only one thing that someone with great power wanted. More of it

No matter how great a gift or skill, it's impossible to foresee every outcome.

Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight.

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

Ethan knows more about himself than he ever wanted to know, and I know less than I should.

Yes, royals know how to do things beyond counting our twelve toes.

Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods ...
But even the great can tremble with fear.
Even the great can fall

There are many ways to feed people.

Sometimes the enemy is just one person who will bring down a kingdom.

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

And all I want is to hold her and make the rest of the world go away.

Because I Stupidly Loved Her

And suddenly I feel weak, like every question in my head has collided against each other and won't let me think. (pg. 108)

Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.

The seed of the gift may come, but a seedling that isn't nourished dies quickly.

I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.

Convince him. I relaxed against his touch and didn't turn away when his mouth met mine.

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.

What is magic but what we don't yet understand

The house is still, like the breath has been punched out of it.

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza."
"Turn your ear to the wind," she interpreted. "Stand strong.

It doesn't matter how many universes come and go, I will always remember who we were together.

Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?

There are all kinds of friends you make in life ... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.

Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.

No one is too great to fall

For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever.

They looked shallow, self-absorbed. And a small, strangled part of me envied them.

I jumped. Another shadow flitted across the

Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.

It wasn't good to dwell on maybes. Maybes could be twisted into things that never really existed

What good would one last good-bye do? Wouldn't it just prolong the pain?

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

If we spend too much time reliving the past, it gets us nowhere."
"That's where I am, Rafe. Nowhere.

Lay down your arms, and we will create a hope that lasts

It is good to have many strengths, Natiya...Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.