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101 " When a place holds power over you, it looms large. And once that power is stripped away, it appears how it really is. Just a room, or a courtyard, or a house, or a palace. Walls and floorboards and gates and archways. Building blocks. Pieces of a place, but not the heart of them. "
― Natasha Ngan , Girls of Fate and Fury (Girls of Paper and Fire, #3)
102 " Imagine as you do that the air you take in is bright and golden, as lovely and light as your eyes. "
― Natasha Ngan , Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire, #1)
103 " You're not the same. I see you, the way you fight. You have love when they only have hate. Hold on to that as tightly as you can, Lei. Because war will do everything it can to take that goodness from you. I think sometime people forget that there will be a time after all of this - for the lucky ones, at least. And when that time comes, we'll all have to live with what we have done. And what we have left of ourselves. "
― Natasha Ngan , Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)
104 " Fire. So much fire. Fire so hot it burns even ice to ashes. Fire like a wave to swallow the world whole. Fire from within her. Fire that sears skin and all she touches. Fire bright enough to blind those who look at her. Red flames in the palace. Red flames, kindled from within. On the night of fire, more will come to scorch him. "
― Natasha Ngan
105 " You're welcome to try and escape again . . . but this time it will be the sea's arms waiting to catch you. And I think you'll find them an even crueler embrace than mine. "
106 " I recall how black and white the world seemed at eleven. How clear-cut life was, everything divided into good and bad, right and wrong, like two sides of a coin. "
107 " I haven't lied to you, Lei.""Well, you haven't exactly told me the truth either. "
108 " But there is one thing that is infinite: greed. The ability of humans and demons to want. To desire. To hunger after things that don't belong to them. "
109 " I promise myself that I will not give the King the chance to discard us.One day, we will be the ones discarding him. "
110 " People do not ask of the gods without offering them things in return. "
111 " I want to be free. Not just free of the palace, but free once I’m outside of it, too. How can that happen in a world where its King allows demons to do whatever they want to those they deem inferior? How can I live in happiness when I know now what happens to Paper castes all across Ikhara? "
112 " ...souls are messy, imperfect things. Even the most beautiful of them have the capacity to be cruel, uncompromising, and unforgiving. Fair and merciful. Hearts are all of these things and more. And no matter how complex, how contradictory they might be, that doesn't mean they do not deserve love, or forgiveness, or a second chance. "
113 " Please don’t lie,” Wren says. Her fingers brush mine before she moves away, adding quietly, and low, “Not about that. Not to me. "
114 " Not just the palace really, but a city . . . like the veins and arteries flowing through a giant creature with the King nestled at its core, its own living, beating heart.I wonder if that heart is as black as I've been told. "