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Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1) QUOTES

Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1) QUOTES

1 " ...just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's not the truth... "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

2 " My arrival saved the kingdom, while his only reiterated that his blood would fill the throne one day. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

3 " Why should I care if the tides rise again if I am only a corpse riding the waves? "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

4 " A man who dips his sword in every well soon finds it spotted with rust, "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

5 " To be aware of your own doom is no easy thing. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

6 " I am drawn to the water, yet I know it's not what calls me. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

7 " I'll keep first watch`, Dara says. `Get some sleep. Dream of women.` `You're confused, sister. They dream of me. And what is it you think of, if you ever rest easy?` Dara's mouth tightens, all traces of humor gone. `Revenge. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

8 " Khosa', I say again, And for the first time, I wish to be only that. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

9 " For Khosa is married to one thing only, and that is the sea, "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

10 " A good person does not necessarily make a good king. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

11 " Another Given in my place may have found him suitable, and he could have afthered the next cursed daughter. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

12 " Two feet as well, the webbing says much.` `One stands in evidence alone, why take two?` `Because feet come in pairs "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

13 " Were all Indiri women so prideful?`, Vincent asks. `For the sake of my male ancestors, I hope not "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

14 " Mother, you've ended the world. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

15 " Why have you made a boat?`, Witt asks, a question he will repeat many times, to the sick and the old. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

16 " There's no bearing it, young Lithos. All things die. We only hold their hands as they go. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

17 " It is in my blood. It is in my bones. It is in my brain. One day my body will betray me, dancing into the sea, my mind a passenger only. The water will close over my head and I will drown "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

18 " King Gammal shakes his head. `I gave these men a speech about courage. I can hardly be seen fleeing,` `And I wrote the speech.`, Vincent says. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

19 " Cathon's blood drips on the fallen books, marrying pages, something I would have mourned only moments ago. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)

20 " The thought of Indiri blood calling more loudly to Khosa than mine lent some violence to my actions. "

― Mindy McGinnis , Given to the Sea (Given Duet, #1)