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41 " This isn't dancing the way I saw it done back home, all abandon and laughter and loose limbs. This is a kind of clockwork, technical thing. "
― Natasha Ngan , Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire, #1)
42 " I draw her close. I kiss each eye, as gently as I'm able. Then her lips. [...] Just the simplest, most instinctive language of forgiveness. Forgiveness, and hope. "
43 " The King is Zhokka, swallowing everything. And Wren is Ahla - the moon, the light, the only one who knows how to bring the stars back to my sky. "
44 " Ruling is like shaman's magic. You can only give when you have taken.""Perhaps, it's about balancing who you take from. "
45 " Our lives here are defined by others, every decision made for us, every turn of fate pushed by the hands of others. But you stood up and said no. "
46 " You would think seven years would have dulled my wounds. But they still burn inside me, a fire too bright to extinguish. "
47 " When the world denies you choices, you make your own. "
48 " But this is how the earth and heavens work. How they have always worked. All that is needed for anything to happen is for someone - god or mortal, demon or man - to see that slim chance, and take it. "
49 " Her kisses heal the parts of me that the King broke. They tell me: You are strong, Lei. You are beautiful. You are min. And, always, most important: You are yours. "
50 " Many men enjoy that.""They all have power anyway.""Do they? Yes, they like to think they're in charge, ordering us around. But is that true power? They can take and steal and break all they want, but there is one thing they have no control over. Our emotions. "
51 " I know what it means to dream about the past. To dream about the things you have loved, and lost. "
52 " Pero yo no quiero una vida fácil. Quiero una vida que valga la pena. "
53 " After emerging victorious from the Night War, the Bull King chose to shed his name completely. He saw it as symbolic. A way to elevate his status. Instead of mere mortals, he and his successors would be revered as an all-powerful entity. We would be gods. (...) Yet tell me, Lei-zhi, what is the point of a god whose people know nothing about him? Whose followers cannot call upon him by his own name? (...) It's like worshiping a ghost. "
54 " threaded with tiny silver flowers that make it look as if she’d been dancing between the galaxies, catching stars. "
55 " More than anyone, I know how some wounds can stay hidden and yet still be felt so keenly, day after day, year after year. "
56 " The way they sat side by side many nights on the back porch, in silence but somehow making the air feel full of words. "
57 " 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 the 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. "
58 " Over my head, a flock of birds wheel noisily, wingtips kissing the sky. Their freedom pierces me. What would happen if I just took off right now? Chased after them, danced in the midnight shadow of their bodies so high above, and we could be mirrors, echoes, them in the air and me on the ground. "
59 " Dreamed of starlit nights of adventures and a world outside the village and a love so bold it sets my heart alight. "
60 " You're risking everything. Your life, and mine. Because if anything happens to you, I don't know how I'll cope. You're all I have, Wren. I need you. "