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1 " Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. "
― Leigh Bardugo , The Grisha Trilogy (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1-3)
2 " Don't let me be alone. "
3 " Fine, make me your villain. "
4 " Yuyeh sesh,” Tolya called after her in Shu. “Ni weh sesh,” she shouted over her shoulder. And then she was gone.“What does that mean?”“It’s something our father taught us,” Tolya replied. “Yuyeh sesh: ‘despise your heart.’ But that’s the direct translation. The real meaning is more like ‘do what needs to be done—be cruel if you have to.’”“What’s the other part?”“Ni weh sesh? ‘I have no heart. "
5 " Sorry,” I mumbled. “Maybe you’re hungry,” said Zoya. “I always get mean when I’m hungry.” “Are you hungry all the time?” asked Harshaw. “You haven’t seen me mean. When you do, you’ll require a very big hanky.” He snorted. “To dry my tears?” “To stanch the bleeding. "
6 " I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him. "
7 " Fine make me your villain. "
8 " I wondered if those paths would just keep taking us further and further apart, and if a day might come when we would be strangers to each other once again. "
9 " I’d been lonely my whole life, but I’d never been truly alone before, and it wasn’t nearly as scary as I’d imagined. "
10 " The only person in the world who truly knew me had decided I wasn’t worth the effort of a few words. But I was holding on still. "
11 " There's no such thing as too much champagne. Though our head will try to tell you otherwise tomorrow. "
12 " They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that. 1. "
13 " Io non ero nessuno, ero una rifugiata di un villaggio senza nome, una ragazza ossuta e sgraziata che sfrecciava sola e fuori controllo in un’oscurità sempre più fitta. Ma quando l’Oscuro aveva stretto le dita intorno al mio polso, mi ero sentita diversa, qualcosa di più. "
14 " Every time I’d tried to predict my fate, my life had been upended. "
15 " And I guess it’s a reminder that wanting and deserving aren’t the same thing. "
16 " What does that mean?” “It’s something our father taught us,” Tolya replied. “Yuyeh sesh: ‘despise your heart.’ But that’s the direct translation. The real meaning is more like ‘do what needs to be done—be cruel if you have to.’” “What’s the other part?” “Ni weh sesh? ‘I have no heart. "
17 " —Una vez más —me pidió—. Di mi nombre una vez más. Era antiquísimo, eso lo sabía. Pero en ese momento no era más que un chico, un chico brillante, bendecido con demasiado poder, con una carga para toda la eternidad. —Aleksander "
18 " Her grief is old, I reminded myself. And yet I didn’t think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance. "
19 " Then she turned to me, and I took a startled step back, because I saw it, as clearly as if I had been standing at its edge: the abyss. Ceaseless, black, and yawning, the unending emptiness of a life lived too long. "
20 " She smiled then, a small smile of such aching sadness that it was hard to look at. “You think I don’t love my son,” she said. “But I do. It is because I love him that I will not let him put himself beyond redemption. "
