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21 " I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore.I must try to remember. "
― N.K. Jemisin , The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
22 " The Nightlord cannot be controlled, child. He can only be unleashed. And you asked him not to kill. "
23 " And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal.That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning. "
24 " Whether you live or die is irrelevant. You are Arameri, and like all of us, you will serve. "
25 " In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. "
26 " beware love, especially the wrong man "
27 " Men who served anyone could be trusted by no one. "
28 " Separarse de la tierra y contemplarla desde arriba como los dioses es una blasfemia. No podemos ser dioses... pero podemos llegar a ser menos que humanos con aterradora facilidad. "
29 " (This is not a digression.) "
30 " It is important to give just the right instructions. He thinks in loopholes. "
31 " De esta materia prima están hechos los grandes cuentos, ¿no? Puro romanticismo. En los cuentos, las parejas así viven felices para siempre. Pero los cuentos no dicen lo que sucede cuando se hace eso y se ofende a la familia más poderosa del mundo. "
32 " There’s truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.” “Only if one knows the knowledge is tainted in the first place. "
33 " I’m tired of being what everyone else has made me,” I said. “I want to be myself.” “Don’t be a child.” I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. “What?” “You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining. "
34 " The Darren language has a word for the attraction one feels to danger: esui. It is esui that makes warriors charge into hopeless battles and die laughing. Esui is also what draws women to lovers who are bad for them--men who would make poor fathers, women of the enemy. "
35 " There was nothing we mortals would not do when it came to protecting our loved ones. "
36 " Eres insignificante. Una entre millones, ni especial ni única. Yo no pedí esta ignominia y me sentí ofendida por la comparación.Muy bien. A mí tampoco me gustas. "
37 " There is no logic to grief. "
38 " Would you?” I licked my lips again, swallowed around sudden tightness in my throat. “Kill me? If… I asked?” There was a pause. When the Lord of Night touched my face, fingertips tracing my jaw, I thought I was imagining things. There was an unmistakable tenderness in the gesture. But then, just as tenderly, the hand slid farther down and curled around my neck. As he leaned close, I closed my eyes. “Are you asking?” His lips brushed my ear as he whispered. "
39 " -Si pudieras ser libre. ¿Qué pedirías?[...]-Estoy cansada de ser lo que todos los demás han hecho de mi -dije-. Quiero ser yo misma.-No seas niña. [...] Eres lo que tus creadores y tus experiencias han hecho de ti, como todos los seres de este universo. Acéptalo y sigue adelante. Estoy cansado de tus plañidos. "
40 " That taste was something I had little experience with, yet I knew it the way an infant knows love, or an animal knows fear. Jealous, even between father and son, is a fact of nature. "