172 quotes found
“He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.”
“It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.”
“But say he forgets about me or meets someone else or pretends I don't exist.I look at her and then at Trini and Raffy."Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice....”
“Simple dreams are the hardest to come true”
“People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else.”
“How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?”
“She made a sound of regret. We come second, you and I, Luc-ien, she said. Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.She placed her head back against h...”
“It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.”
“The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would.Justine is running toward me, and I can tell by the look on her face that she's found out about ...”
“Arjuro made a scoffing sound. You think Lumatere will invade because of you? Are you that important?Froi looked away. Isaboe would invade if you kidnapped a servant, let alone a friend.Isaboe? Were...”
“God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.”
“Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift...”
“Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”
“In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if were fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.”
“Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I c...”
“They always prided themselves on looking youthful. Fortys the new thirty, theyd joke.Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then fortys the new one hundred.”
“Do not cry, she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. Do not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end.”
“The boy in the tree sobs uncontrollably when I tell him about the Hermit and my mother, yet his eyes light up each time I mention Hannah. And every single time he asks, Taylor, what about the Briga...”
“In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.”
“Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better”
