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81 " Didn't you feel me, loving you from across the ocean? "
― Katharine McGee , The Towering Sky (The Thousandth Floor, #3)
82 " If Rylin had learned anything by now, it was that in real life, you never quite knew what was coming. You had to take the bad with the good. You had to take a chance, hold your breath, and trust people. After all, the fun of real life stories is that they're still being written. "
83 " Yes, exactly, because you’re a woman, and the world will make everything exponentially more difficult for you. It isn’t right, or fair, but it is the truth. "
― Katharine McGee , American Royals (American Royals, #1)
84 " From now on, it's you and me. "
― Katharine McGee , Majesty (American Royals, #2)
85 " All good storytellers study psychology ... Novelists, filmmakers, even actors. You have to know the rules of human behavior before you can make your characters break them. "
86 " I swore that I wouldn't kiss you again. Obviously I can’t keep my promises, even to myself. Not when it comes to you. "
87 " Some secrets are better buried. "
88 " Someday, Avery, you'll learn that it's not much use running away from things if you have to eventually come back and face them. "
89 " No one should have to confess to murder alone. Haven't you heard? That's what best friends are for. "
90 " That’s because the better you know someone, the easier it is to hurt them, "
91 " She hated that her siblings thought she was cold or unfeeling. Just because she'd been brought up to keep her emotions hidden didn't mean that she never experienced those emotions. "
92 " Only by engaging with the past can we avoid repeating it. "
93 " Oh, ‘it had to be done’?” he repeated. “Daphne, some of us actually want to keep our best friends, not push them down staircases "
94 " Nothing mattered except this moment. She felt invincible, untouchable, like she would be this way forever: young and dancing and electric and alive. "
― Katharine McGee , The Thousandth Floor (The Thousandth Floor, #1)
95 " Winner’s curse,” Nadia whispered into his eartennas, and he could swear he heard amusement in her tone. “Where the victor gets exactly what he wants, only to find that it isn’t quite as he expected. "
96 " There was something heady about walking up to the mirror as a single person, only to find that when you stood a certain way, you were multiplied into an army. "
97 " Stories are the only real magic that exists. A story can breach the impossible distance between individuals, take us out of our own life and into someone else’s, if only for a moment. Our hunger for story is what makes us human. "
98 " There aren’t any happy endings in real life, because there aren’t any endings in life, only moments of change, she wrote, repeating his words. There’s always another adventure, another challenge, another opportunity to find happiness or chase it away. "
99 " Say you want to make things right, to build a better future. But erasing the past—or worse, trying to rewrite it—is the tool of despots. Only by engaging with the past can we avoid repeating it. "
100 " Someday you’ll learn that it’s not much use running away from things, when you have to eventually come back and face them. "
