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1 " They can take and steal and break all they want, but there is one thing they have no control over. Our emotions. Our feelings. Our thoughts.... Our minds and hearts are our own. That is our power, Nine. Never forget it. "
― Natasha Ngan , Girls of Fate and Fury (Girls of Paper and Fire, #3)
2 " Even demons are no match for Paper Girls with fire in their hearts. "
3 " Storytelling is a wonderful kind of magic, don’t you think? It is how we keep people alive in our hearts long after they are gone. "
4 " You don’t know me, Lei‑zhi,” he sneers. “You’re not as clever as you think. None of your kind are. No matter how hard you fight, it will be in vain. Paper can never triumph over Steel and Moon—you are too easily broken. You are weak, and we... I am strong. You will see. I will burn all your hopes and dreams to ashes, Lei‑zhi—along with everything you so proudly, foolishly love. "
5 " Why was it truth hurt more than lies? She supposed there was at least comfort in lies. Truth forced you to stare at yourself in the mirror, bare in every sense of the word, and acknowledge the person looking back at you as your own doing. Truth always caught you in the end, and it was merciless. "
6 " Like faith or hope, love isn't a substance we can take in our hands and hold out to someone and say 'look, I told you it was real.' It exists, purely within our own hearts. If anything, that makes it all the more powerful. If we could measure it, set it out on a platter for weighing, it make so many things easier. "
7 " But my love, that isn't all you are. Your blood and upbringing aren't everything. You make your own power. You are your own strength. "
8 " It is easy to spot a coward. Shall I teach you how? A coward is the one who uses force when a gentler hand would be more effective. He is the one who lets his nation suffer while he bathes in their blood. The one who hides within walls while sending others to die for him. Who dresses in armor and masks, thinking it will intimidate his enemies when it only proves how fearful he really is. "
9 " 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. "
10 " ...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. "
