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1 " Who said it was a path? It could have just been artfully strewn cookies. You made it a path by following it, and assuming it had any intention. "
― Roshani Chokshi , The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves, #1)
2 " Make yourself a myth and live within it, so that you belong to no one but yourself. "
3 " Have you never heard the saying ‘you attract more flies with honey than vinegar’?” “Why would I want to attract flies?” “Never mind. "
4 " Wolves were everywhere. In politics, on thrones, in beds. They cut their teeth on history and grew fat on war. "
5 " I don’t know enough to be serious,” he said carefully. “But I’d like to know enough to have options. "
6 " Great minds think alike.” Zofia frowned. “No, they don’t. Otherwise every idea would be uniform. "
7 " Aristocracy is just a fancy word for thievery. "
8 " What kind of lover has cold hands?""One who makes up for temperature with talent. "
9 " One can't exactly savor vengeance when one is dead. "
10 " Oh, Zofia," she said. "Don't be sad. Everyone hides. "
11 " Only use it in emergencies.""I figured, once you said 'bomb. "
12 " Idiot. It was just a word. It had no weight, no atomic number, no chemical structure with which it could bind to and thus make it real. But it hurt. "
13 " Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge. "
14 " Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They're not just lines. They're histories, cultures, traditions, given shape. "
15 " Where's the cake? "
16 " Scars sculpted people into who they where. "
17 " History is a myth shaped by the tongues of conquerors. "
18 " Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge "
19 " When we revise the horror and sanitize the grotesque, we risk erasing the paths that led us here. "
20 " He didn't understand that sometimes the only way to take down what had destroyed you was to disguise yourself as part of it. "