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21 " Superstitons are useless. And a gut cannot have an instinct "
― Roshani Chokshi , The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves, #1)
22 " Renew yourself completely every day, and starting afresh, from the beginning. "
23 " The only rules to follow were instincts and color palettes. "
24 " Take what the world owes you by any means necessary,” Pride had said. “The world has a shit memory. It will never pay its debts unless you force its hand. "
25 " Secrets keep my hair lustrous. "
26 " If you are furious, let it be fuel. "
27 " By all means, take your time. I love a good slow, painful death. "
28 " Water is boring. "
29 " It wasn't his intellect that made him unwanted.It was his face.- Enrique "
30 " You broke it,” said Laila. “My elbow fell into it. "
31 " When you are who they expect you to be, they never look too closely. If you're furious, let it be fuel. "
32 " What would friendship entail?Well, on Wednesdays, we sacrifice a cat to Satan "
33 " Her mother's voice rang in her ears: 'Don't capture their hearts. Steal their imagination. It's far more useful. "
34 " I don't want to be their equal. I don't want them to look us in the eye. I want them to look away, to blink harshly, as if they'd stared at the sun itself. I don't want them standing across from us. I want them kneeling. "
35 " Lust is safer than love, but both can ruin you. "
36 " Half of winning, my dear wallet, is simply looking victorious. "
37 " Nightmares are part of sleeping. "
38 " Kisses were not supposed to be like this. Kisses were to be witnessed by stars, not held in the presence of stale death. But as the bones rose around them, Laila saw fractals of white. They looked like pale constellations, and she thought that, perhaps, for a kiss like this, even hell would put forth stars. "
39 " But what no one tells you is that even when you decide which world you will live in, the world may not always see you as you would wish. Sometimes it demands that you be so outrageous as to transcend your very skin. You can change your name. Your eye colour. Make yourself a myth and live within it, so that you belong to no one but yourself. "
40 " That boy looks like every dark corner of a fairy tale. The wolf in bed. The apple in a witch's palm. "