17 quotes found
“I may be in pain, but I am not weak.”
“Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.”
“Honor, I said with a snort. Honor has no place in survival.”
“What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459”
“Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.”
“I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.”
“I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287”
“A harsh crack followed the rumble of thunder, a lightning strike. With that, the other musicians began to play, bringing in the tinkling sounds of light rain, the deeper thrum of thicker droplets. ...”
“Il dolore aveva un suo modo di scomporre il tempo. Pensavo al minuto successivo, all'ora successiva. Non c'era abbastanza spazio nella mia mente per mettere insieme tutti quei pezzi, per trovare le...”
“Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."pg 185”
“Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't enough space in my mind to put all those pieces together, to find words to summarise the whole of ...”
“There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.”
“It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.”
“The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337”
“You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189”
“This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.”
“You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244”
