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1 " I'm trying out new hobbies. Pensive brooding, dramatic walking. I might even take up long, aggrieved exhales.""Sounds like an excellent use of time. I happen to excel in pensive brooding if you ever wish for instruction.""How generous of you!""Generosity is my new habit of late. "
― Roshani Chokshi , The Bronzed Beasts (The Gilded Wolves, #3)
2 " I don't think you're lost. You're just searching for the thing that fills you with light. "
3 " History might be shaped by the tongues of conquerors, but it was not a fixed shape or story, and with every object they repatriated, it was like adding or recasting a sentence in a book whose pages were as wide and infinite as a horizon. "
4 " We've got hope, a flimsy plan, and a great deal of explosives. We've gotten by on less. Let's go. "
5 " If you think what we are doing is impossible, then let us rewrite what possibility means. Together. "
6 " Growth and remorse are rather like stars: the surrounding dark makes them vivid enough to notice. "
7 " Treasure is like a beautiful woman. It wants to know that you have taken the time to understand it, before it reveals itself." [...]"If I were treasure and I heard you utter that, I would sink to the bottom of the ocean where you would never find me. "
8 " ...children had no choice but to need the care of others. And if someone could dangle your needs before you, you were powerless. "
9 " Phoenix . . .""Hmm?""You are not actually thinking of hiding a large explosive near our faces, are you?" asked Enrique."No," said Zofia."Good-""It's a very tiny explosive. Hardly larger than six centimeters.""No," said Hypnos and Enrique at the same time.Laila took that as her cue to leave. "
10 " See? I'm more than a pretty face.""Of course you are. [...] You have shoulders and feet and a neck. Though I do not know whether those would be considered pretty. "
