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21 " This is something I know: no matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found. "
― Rene Denfeld , The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)
22 " Love wasn’t about numbers, Naomi realized then. It wasn’t about selling yourself or wanting anything in return. It wasn’t about hoping for safety. It was just— That purr. "
23 " Are you trying to talk your way into my bed?” she asked, her voice thick with emotion. “No.” His voice sounded warm. “I’m trying to talk my way into your heart. "
24 " Everyone needs faith: faith that even though the world is full of evil, a suitor will come and kiss us awake; faith that the girl will escape the tower, the big bad wolf will die, and even those poisoned by malevolence can be reborn, as innocent as purity itself. "
25 " Fear never keeps anyone safe "
26 " No one ever told you what to do when love went away. It was always about capturing love, and keeping love. Not about watching it walk out the door to die alone rather than in your arms. "
27 " In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. Like a leaf that drank from the morning dew, you didn’t question the morning sunrise or the sweet taste on your mouth. You just drank. "
28 " She said we are all part of a secret club. Someday, she said, we will take over the earth. It will be people like us that save the world, she said: those who have walked the side of sorrow and seen the dawn. "
29 " Hope springs eternal. Just remember: so does evil. Sometimes they are impossible to tell apart. "
30 " She knelt over the grave, until her nose was touching the dirt. “When you are ready to inhabit a new skin,” she said, “we will be waiting for you. "
31 " The moon, B had noticed, awakened the dawn, and so the two – like pale cousins – never saw each other. Even on the most hopeful of days the moon could only peep, from a distant sky, at the sun. "
32 " It will be people like us that save the world, she said: those who have walked the side of sorrow and seen the dawn. "
33 " I'm afraid," she confessed, her voice quiet."Of what?""That if the box is opened I might want and want and never be filled." She took a breath. "That you will get tired of filling it." She paused and spoke her deepest fear, turning to his ear. "That you will use me and throw me away. "
34 " Be careful the purpose doesn't destroy you. "
35 " Regrets?” Diane asked cheerfully. She made a gusty little sandwich out of crackers and cheese. "
36 " Remember when we used to share our secrets?" he asked. The moon captured a handsome face, full of longing. His dark hair brushed his shoulders."The Stone," she laughed."I loved you then. I loved you no matter where you came from. No - scratch that." His voice floated up to her. "I loved you because you came from wherever it was. It must have been a magic place, to produce you. "
37 " His mild efforts at curiosity had been rebuffed--not with coldness but with her single-minded focus on her cases. And yet he could sense something deeply vulnerable about her. It was that part of her that spoke to his soul. He wasn't a ledge talker for nothing. "