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The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1) QUOTES

The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1) QUOTES

1 " I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you. "

― Fuyumi Ono , The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1)

2 " The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb. "

― Fuyumi Ono , The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1)

3 " She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity. "

― Fuyumi Ono , The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1)

4 " Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom--so deep that not even light could touch it.

And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling.

Like stars... "

― Fuyumi Ono , The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1)

5 " 待って。わたしは……たんなる女子高生だったんだよ？ "

― Fuyumi Ono , The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1)

6 " It wasn’t that she didn’t want to die. Nor was it that she wanted to live. She just didn’t want to give up. "

― Fuyumi Ono , The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1)

7 " It's not true that you were the good child. Not a good child at all. You were scared of rejection, so you made yourself a convenient child for your parents to have around."

"And your good parents - well, that is a lie as well. Not good parents at all, always looking over their shoulders, afraid of what people might be saying behind their backs. You think that liars who flock together never betray each other? Oh, you will betray your parents. And your parents will betray you. It is the way of all flesh. We tell each other our lies and the betrayed betrays the betrayer. "

― Fuyumi Ono , The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1)

8 " You know, Youko. When you don't know which choice is the best, then you should choose the path you ought to take, rather than the one you wish for. You're going to regret the path not taken. But regrets being more or less equal, better the one where the regret is even a bit less." - Rakushun. "

― Fuyumi Ono , The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1)