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1 " Winning a war is the easy part. All it takes is brawn. Maintaining your rule afterward is the real test. "
― Natasha Ngan , Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire, #1)
2 " Wren, in her sleeping robe, standing close to a tall wolf demon, her head craned back to face him. The wolf: Moon caste, marbled ash-gray fur flowing silkily over angular features, a diamond-shaped patch of white on his long, muzzlelike jaw. He’s dressed in soldier’s clothes. One pawed hand is lifted to cup Wren’s face, like the beginning of a kiss. "
3 " There is an old proverb in our kingdom: “He who seeks revenge should dig two graves.” (Confucius) "
4 " I don't want an easy life. I want a meaningful one. "
5 " When the world denies you choices... you make your own "
6 " Instead of disappearing, she makes me feel reappeared. Reimagined. Her touch shapes me, draws out the boldness that had been hiding in my core. "
7 " Falling in love is the most dangerous thing women like us can do. "
8 " They can take and break and steal all they want, but there is one thing they have no control over. Our emotions. Our feelings. Our thoughts. None of them will ever be able to control the way we feel. Our minds and hearts are our own. That is our power, Nine. Never forget it. "
9 " Fire in, fear out "
10 " Because if this is to be my fate, I'm going to walk boldly into it on my own two feet. "
11 " I know what it means to dream about the past.To dream about things you have loved, and lost. "
12 " But time has a way of folding itself, like a map, distances and journeys and hours and minutes tucked neatly away to leave just the realness of the before and the now, as close as hands pressed on the either side of a rice-paper door. "
13 " We might be Paper Girls, easily torn and written upon. The very title we’re given suggests that we are blank, waiting to be filled. But what the Demon King and his court do not understand is that paper is flammable. "
14 " Perhaps being a traitor can be a good thing if you are betraying those who deserve it. "
15 " I don’t realize it until I speak it. And it’s different from the times I’ve said it before, or the way I’ve hoped it, as if dreaming something enough could birth it into being. I know it now with a certainty that has fitted into the lost core at the heart of me, as hard and angular as my hope was soft and shimmering. The King will not have me. "
16 " It doesn't matter how beautiful the cage is. It's still a prison. "
17 " A war might be coming.But we have the wings to fight it. "
18 " I like to think that there's some good behind even the darkest sins. That death can be warranted if it paves the way for hope. "
19 " In my land, we're known as Paper Girls...Easily torn, existing only for others to use and discard. But there's something that they've all forgotten about paper. It can light the world on fire...And make it burn. "
20 " Remember, even that which seems impossible at first can be overcome by strength of mind and heart. "
