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The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1) QUOTES

The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1) QUOTES

1 " Jealousy is nothing but a fear of being abandoned "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

2 " Sometimes a person has to let go of something to take hold of something else. You always have to choose what's more important. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

3 " Sometimes a person has to let go of something to take hold of something else. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

4 " There's a drafting table in my cabin. But don't lay a finger on anything else."
"I assure you, Captain," Blake said. "My intentions are honorable."

Slate cocked his head; understanding dawned on his face. "I meant don't touch my stuff." He rolled his eyes. "I need some coffee." And then he strode off toward the hatch without a backwards glance. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

5 " Sometimes fate makes choices for us. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

6 " But even if the captain rewrites his own history, how could it affect your reality? I’m from a place you call a fairy tale, and I’m still here.”
"But . . . the Vaadi Al-Maas was real once. People believed in it.”
"I believe in you. Simple enough, right?” His smile was heartbreaking. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

7 " Why did the stories I knew best never end well?
But why too did I feel at home among them?
I could never give up the myths, the maps, the ship that had shaped me.
Blake’s home might be paradise, but my home was the Temptation. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

8 " If you could go anywhere, where would you want to go?”

“Could we find a map of someplace perfect?”

“Like paradise?” I asked, teasing.

“Here? No.” He stared upward, the first stars shining in his eyes. “A better place. Someplace where nothing goes wrong. There must be a myth like that somewhere.”

I bit my lip; my shoulders fell. “Navigation involves the beliefs of the Navigator and the mapmaker. And I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who truly believes in a world without suffering. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

9 " Where are you going?”
"Out. Like you.”
He raised an eyebrow, but he didn’t press for more information. "One should always make one’s own mistakes, instead of the mistakes of others, amira.”
"Out like me, then. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

10 " I never knew you had such a fine eye for fabrics,” I said as we continued up the street. “You should have been a tailor instead of a thief.”
“I have a fine eye for all things, amira, which is why I’m a thief and not a tailor. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

11 " When I was young, I learned to expect loss. Every time you slept, something disappeared. Whenever you woke up, someone else was gone. But . . . I also learned that every day, you created everything anew. And whatever you had, you enjoyed as long as it lasted. Spend money when it’s in your pocket.” He took my hand and put the orange in it. “Eat fruit while it’s ripe.” His other hand found my cheek, his thumb brushing the corner of my mouth. “Paradise is a promise no god bothers to keep. There’s only now, and tomorrow nothing will be the same, whether we like it or not. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

12 " After all, you can only hold one person tight if you're holding on with both hands. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

13 " And once everyone agrees something is one way, all the other ways it could have been disappear. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

14 " Love makes fools of us all. He has to believe it will work, because he’s in love. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

15 " The age of exploration is long over, amira. Now it’s the age of globalization. And once everyone agrees something is one way, all the other ways it could have been disappear.” I "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

16 " Sometimes a person has to let go of something to take hold of something else. You always have to choose what’s more important.” “Oh? "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

17 " I was a closed book, a rolled map, a dark territory uncharted; I was surprised by my urgency, but after all, to be known was to exist. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

18 " Paradise is a promise no god bothers to keep. There’s only now, and tomorrow nothing will be the same, whether we like it or not.”
I bit my lip and tasted oranges; the juice was very sweet. “Is that really true?”
His smile was bright in the moonlight. “I promise.”
“Then I suppose . . . just tonight—”
This time I did not turn away, and so I discovered that his lips were even sweeter than the orange. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

19 " There are a lot of things that are illegal but not wrong. And probably more that are wrong, and still legal. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

20 " There has to be a line, Kashmir,” I said angrily. “A person can’t do just anything for love.”
He shrugged one shoulder. “I would.”
“Yeah, well, you’re a thief. Your relative morality is already suspect.”
“Ah,” he said then, standing. “Well. I’ll leave the morality for those that like the taste of it. I always preferred bread. "

― Heidi Heilig , The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)