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21 " There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that. "
― Caragh M. O'Brien , Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)
22 " It hurts to love someone this much. I feel each place where our minds meet, and each little place were they don't, until we talk things over and line up again...I've never had anything like this with anyone else. Now I'm never fully happy anymore unless you're with me. "
― Caragh M. O'Brien , Promised (Birthmarked, #3)
23 " Be good, Gaia,” Capt. Grey told her, his voice grave. She still refused to look at him, but she could feel the heated flush of anger again in her cheeks. “Cooperate with the guards. For your own sake,” he continued.“Be good yourself, Captain,” she said bitterly. “If you know how. "
24 " There"s nothing left between us at all, is there?” she asked.For a long moment he said nothing, and the pebbles made a clicking noise in his fingers.Then, as if it gave him no pleasure at all, he replied.“Whose fault is that? "
― Caragh M. O'Brien , Prized (Birthmarked, #2)
25 " I don’t believe in worry. It doesn’t change the outcome, but it make the now miserable, so I don’t do it. "
― Caragh M. O'Brien , The Vault of Dreamers (The Vault of Dreamers, #1)
26 " What boy could resist you?""Will's hardly a boy.""Don't give me that. He's a boy playing a game," Norris said. "The oldest game there is. "
27 " And for once, she was happy. Very. "
28 " Every tiny, happy thing makes me want to share it with you," he went on, leaning forward. "I thought I would get over this, but I can't, and I'm done trying. I understand you like no one else here ever can."-Leon Grey "
29 " Being brave alone does not make us smart. "
30 " Though she could not see his shadowed eyes clearly, she sensed an emptiness in there that matched the controlled composure of his other features. It chilled her. "
31 " As she walked through the dark, stepping softly through the wet stones, she looked ahead to where the first cautious star managed to blink through the clouds. "
32 " I can be loyal, Leon. I know what that is."He laughed. "Finally, the girl gives me a crumb "
33 " She pivoted right, and sensed the vast, open space of the wasteland stretching before her under the opaque sky, a darkness as thin and final as the velvet lining of a shroud. "
34 " The tinkle of a wind chime stirred from over a window. Purple and white phlox cascaded cheerfully over the top of a nearby stone wall. Sunlight sifted through the weave of her straw hat, casting freckles of light on her nose and cheeks that shifted, out of focus, as she walked. "
35 " You make me sound like some kind of moral freak."The Matrarc's eyebrows lifted slightly. "Isn't that what you are? "
36 " That was a sauna parlor, there, where I found you," the baker said. "They'll just think you were working the late shift."Gaia was baffled. "A sauna parlor?"She saw the baker and his wife hesitate.The girl clarified in her open, childish voice. "He means it's a brothel."The baked clapped a hand to his forehead."What?" the girl said. "It's a very discreet, high-class brothel. "
37 " It isn't always easy between us, I admit that. But it's right between us, always."-Leon Grey "
38 " Todos somos vulnerables, sobre todo cuando amamos a alguien. "
39 " Being brave along does not make us smart. "
40 " She waited, unwilling to meet his eyes, hoping he would go on. When he didn't, the silence stretched between them like invisible cobwebs. In the dimmest part of her, she realized she might have wishes, too, elusive wishes that belonged more to a girl in a garden than they did to a captive. "