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1 " What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed of leaves. But this was dark, like the shade under a poisonous shrub, and it was hungry. So hungry. It must have some other name, just as there couldn't be the same word for life and death, or for moon and sun "
― Cornelia Funke , Reckless (Mirrorworld, #1)
2 " The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger. "
3 " Nobody loves only once. "
4 " He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul. "
5 " Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar? "
6 " How loud a heart could beat. Until it took your breath away. "
7 " The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core. "
8 " The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons. "
9 " She shed no tears. She just sat there, as if someone had cut out her heart. "
10 " Girl. Woman. So much more vulnerable. Strong and yet weak. A heart that knew no armor. "
11 " Power. Like wine when you have it. Like poison when you lose it. "
12 " Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine. "
13 " Truth or lie... he had always chosen the lie, to spare his little brother any unpleasant truth. "
14 " När det gällde traditioner kunde man inte argumentera med dvärgar, lika lite som med präster om religion. "
15 " Det var kejsarinnans far som hade stiftat en lag, att föremål, djur och människor med magiska egenskaper var skyldiga att rapporteras. För det var ju inte lätt att regera i en värld där ett guldträd kunde göra en tiggare till kung och talande djur viskade rebelliska visdomsord till skogsarbetarna. "
16 " I know why you're here ... This world doesn't frighten you half as much as the other one. You have nothing and nobody to lose here. Except Fox, and she clearly worries more about you than you do about her. You've left all that could frighten you in the other world. But then Will came here and brought it all with him. "
17 " Guilt is a strong motivator, sometimes even stronger than love. "
18 " In fairy tales, the heroes are punished when they run away from a task. The heroes, not their younger brothers... "
19 " Therese of Austry would have made a great treasure hunter if she hadn’t been born the daughter of an Emperor. "
20 " You make peace with one sister only to declare war on the other. It’s always like that with peace, isn’t it? Always to someone’s detriment, already sowing the seed for the next war. "
