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21 " Now the words are on paper and I can't take them back. Sometimes I hate ink. Its so permanent. "
― Jodi Meadows , The Mirror King (The Orphan Queen, #2)
22 " It is human nature to avoid what makes us uncomfortable. "
23 " Sometimes we hate others for the things we hate in ourselves.” He "
24 " Yours is the face that matters most. So yours is the one I wear. My unconscious reflection of you. "
25 " Don't be silly. You're not Black Knife. Everyone knows Princess Wilhelmina is that awful vigilante. "
26 " If you think that trusting someone—allowing them to help you by performing their own duties honorably—somehow makes you less, then it might be time to reexamine yourself. Start asking why you need to do everything. How can you really be close to someone if you never let them in?” “Forgive "
27 " Mirrors are both truth-speakers and liars: a contradiction made of glass and shiny backing. "
28 " I hugged both of them. Melanie for the friends we'd lost. And James for the hope he still carried. "
29 " There’s this truth about mirrors. It’s inescapable. But they can lie, too. They can distort the truth, even hide the truth. They create illusion.” Like "
30 " Recognize this now,” I wanted to say. “Recognize that I love you and when you do this, there’s a part of me that will never recover. "
31 " I made the bridge earlier today… And ten years ago, I made James. - Tobiah "
32 " You showed me your magic," he said. "And after my father's people came to rescue me, I remembered it. - Tobiah, to Wilhelmina "
33 " His good behavior lately didn’t negate his nature. He was destructive. "
34 " Reasons we should get married: Because I love you. We both look good in black boots. I spent some time without you, and I didn’t like it. You make me happy. I make you laugh. I like the way you fight. You see through my masks. I really love you. You love me, too. (Though you’ve mostly said this while yelling, so perhaps I should have double-checked.) Army of tiny vigilantes. (I have name ideas.) Various political reasons that make sense but don’t fit with the theme of this list. I’m holding your handwriting "
35 " I miss it," she said. "That certainty of knowing we were right and we would take bake our kingdom because of our rightness - that was comforting. Now everything seems so gray. "
36 " But the Indigo Kingdom conquered Aecor during the One-Night War. It belongs to me, and to my uncle, as much as I want you to have your kingdom, we both must wait.""Until when? Until the barrier is built? Until the wraith has flooded the Indigo Valley? Until there is nowhere to go but Aecor? I imagine my kingdom will be very useful to you then. "
37 " I’m not trying to rescue you, but I am trying to help you succeed. There’s a difference. "
38 " Once, we’d known each other as enemies, and now I could still feel the shape of him in my arms. Now we were our own enemies. "
39 " Was it possible to stop desiring? "