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21 " You are cruel, Elias,” she whispers against my mouth. “To give a girl all she desires only to tear it away.” “This isn't the end for us, Laia of Serra.” I cannot give up what we could have. I don't care what bleeding vow I made. “Do you hear me? This is not our end.” “You've never been a liar.” She dashes her hands against the wetness in her eyes. “Don't start now. "
― Sabaa Tahir , A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes, #3)
22 " Needing protection is not a weakness. Refusing to trust your allies is. "
23 " Strange, how silence can speak as loudly as a scream. "
24 " The stories we tell have power, of course. But the stories that go untold have just as much power. "
25 " Strange how monsters can reach from beyond the grave, as potent in death as they were in life. "
26 " You cannot walk in the shadows as long as I have and not become one. "
27 " Everyone believes that nothing concerns them until the monsters are knocking on their doors! "
28 " There is a price for greed and violence. We do not always know who will pay it. But for good or ill, it will be paid. "
29 " The ocean waves thunder on, and it is man who must swim amongst them. The wind blows, cold and brittle, and it is man who must protect against it. The earth shakes and cracks, swallows and destroys, but it is man who must walk upon it. So it is with death. I cannot surrender. "
30 " We are, all of us, just visitors in each other's lives. "
31 " The truth is ugly, "
32 " I wonder if my entire life will be a series of moments in which I realize I’m an idiot long after I can actually do anything about it. "
33 " Everyone believes that nothing concerns them until the monsters are knocking on their doors!” She winces at my shriek, but I do not care. “Until they are burning down your homes and destroying your lives and killing your families! "
34 " The freedom of this place, the ease of it—it feels like none of it is for me or my people. All this belongs to others, to those who do not abide at the crossroads of uncertainty and despair. It belongs to people so used to living free that they cannot imagine a world in which they are not. "
35 " Remember that fate is never what we think it will be. "
36 " Love cannot live here. "
37 " wonder what he has become in the months we’ve been apart. Has he changed? Is he eating? Taking care of himself? Skies, I hope he has not grown a beard. I hated his beard. "
38 " You humans give your loyalty so willingly for just a little hope. "
39 " There is success,” I say. “And there is failure. The land in between is for those too weak to live. Duty first, unto death. "
40 " The Tribespeople say that the heavens live under the feet of the mother,” he says. “So great is their sacrifice. And indeed no one suffers in war more than the mother. This war will be no different. "