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“It's time for both of us to be free.”
“The noblest life is the one laid down for another.”
“As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.”
“Remember, Pia," he whispers. "Perfect is as perfect does.”
“A body can't live without a heart. And I can't live without you.”
“If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together?”
“You understand why you must go through with this marriage.You say you couldnt live with yourself if anything happened to Caspida. Yet you ask me to live with myself, knowing I sentenced you to this...”
“I know who you are, he says.Something about his tone causes my heart of smoke to flicker in response, and I throw my guard up. Oh? And who, O boy of Parthenia, am I?He nods to himself, his eyes ali...”
“I always knew it would end like this. It always does. Theres no point in fighting it, Aladdin. It is simply the way of things.I cant accept that.You must.How can you just give up? How can you say t...”
“No! Aguaje is for girls. If a man eats to much of it, he starts to look like a woman.That is the most unscientific thing I've ever heard.Then you haven't met my cousin Jacari. Too much aguaje. Now ...”
“He laughs. "No! Aguaje is for girls. If a man eats to much of it, he starts to look like a woman.""That is the most unscientific thing I've ever heard.""Then you haven't met my cousin Jacari." Eio ...”
“It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it.”
“Find me, my thief.”
“For the last few centuries, these jeweled fruits have been my constant and sole companions. The greatest treasure in all the world, as comfortless as light to the blind.”
“Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity.”
“Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition, am I right?" ~Darian”
“It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.”
“Beauty and death, so closely knit together. This seems to be the central theme of my life.”
“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing more than a line in a scroll. These humans are but letters to be inked into histo...”
“This is Roshana, the last queen of the Amulen Empire, back when my people ruled all the lands from the east to the west. She is something of a legend among us. Every queen aspires to learn from her...”
“To have thought that, with the right tests and the right lectures, I could be made into a cold-blooded, heartless killer. To have thought that I could ignore the beating of my own heart long enough...”
“The will of this boy thief flows in golden streams. It is the thread with which I weave, the colors with which I paint, the element with which I create.”
“Love.Such a sweet, simple word. A word I've been searching for my entire life - but especially since I met Eio - and I never knew it. Until ow. When I hear it on his lips, I know as I can never kno...”
“Im not for you, I say desperately. We are so different. Our lives are a thousand and one worlds apart. It wouldnt work. And its dangerous.But his face only brightens. Then you do feel the same.We a...”
