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21 " You walked into this village with a thunder tiger beside you. You have slain demons with your own hands. Are the old myths really that hard to believe? 'They wouldn't be myths otherwise, would they?' 'Then have a care, Yukiko-chan,' Daichi smiled. 'Keeping the company of the last arashitora in Shima sounds like an excellent way to become a myth yourself. "
― Jay Kristoff , Stormdancer (The Lotus Wars, #1)
22 " This is how the rain becomes a flood. One drop at a time. "
23 " Too many to defeat.But not too many to fight. "
24 " You wear your heart on your sleeve. Guard it more carefully, lest others see it and pluck it out. "
25 " Yukiko stared back at him. Slurred words and a soft stare, that stupefied, slack-jawed look slinking over his face and turning his skin to gray. An anesthetic, numbing the pain of well deserved loss. "
26 " Nuestros problemas no son más que efímeras, que crecen y mueren entre el amanecer y el atardecer. Y cuando se hayan ido al reino de la memoria, tú y yo aún estaremos aquí. "
27 " He wants a thunder tiger, Akihito.""Well, I want a woman who can touch her ears with her ankles, cook a decent meal and keep her opinions to herself. But they don't fucking exist either! "
28 " Hay un lugar y un momento para que todos los finales comiencen. Si no aquí, entonces ¿dónde? Si no ahora, entonces ¿cuándo? "
29 " Harta de ser la débil, la asustada. Harta de ser un peón, de ser una prisionera, de ser una diminuta niña en un mundo tan frío y brutal. Harta de todo. "
30 " There is a place, and a time, for all endings to begin. "
31 " Fue en una mañana de calor sofocante, dos semanas antes, cuando Yoritomonomiya, el Seii Taishogun de las Islas de Shima salidó de sus apostentos, bostezó y declaró que quería un grifo. "
32 " ¡No! Bueno, nunca se puede decir nunca pero no me atraen las mujeres. "
33 " When a man's fate is not his own, when he may die at the behest of a man born luckier or wealthier, when he sweats all his life for scraps from another mans table, then he is in peril." Daichi's eyes glittered in the half light. "But when he accepts it in his heart, when he ceases to struggle against that fundamental injustice, then he is a slave. "
34 " Their soldiers run the farmers off the land before the deadening gets too bad. They drain money from the farmers’ pockets by charging land taxes, ensuring the little man hasn’t got enough coin left over to afford fertilizer. Then they kick him off his land under the guise of environmental protectionism: ‘If you can’t afford to preserve the soil, then we will.’ It’s all about consolidation of power. Taking the land away from the common people. "
35 " IN THE END, ALL QUESTIONS CAN BE DISTILLED INTO ONE. WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO GIVE UP TO GET THE THINGS YOU WANT? "