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“Whatever you do, dont make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.”
“She wanted to make sure she studied all the manuals thoroughly, but she had to admit that part of her hesitation was the unsettling length of the list of things that could go wrong if she mishandle...”
“Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.”
“Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.”
“They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both.”
“Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet?”
“Adventure is something that happens to someone else. When it's happening to you, it's only trouble.”
“But remember: what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea.--Nereid”
“You haven't lived life to the fullest until you've found something worth dying for”
“You'll never be as OK with the thought of dying as you are in the moments when you know that you are truly living”
“Bravery is not the absence of fear, but rather, it is the decision to look fear in the eyes and press on regardless”
“The greatest things in life always come with a chance of great loss”
“It is good to be willing to stand as a hero, but you must also be willing to fall as a hero”
“Dust is not a constant. Theres not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dustthey renew it all the time, by thinking and feeling and reflecting, by gaining wisdom an...”
“To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of humanity that youd so hastily give up. Immortality is overrated. It is nothin...”
“I hope so, grumbled Ian. Im going to look for another one of em winged dogs for Mabel.”
“Instead she looked very hard at the woman's chin. On it was a single white hair - visible even in the heavy dusk - that closely resembled a piece of thread hanging off a scrap of fabric. The woman ...”
“Ganix didn't need to make friends. Everyone was a friend!”
“They were daughters of the sky. Luck belonged to them never bad, often good, sometimes hard.”
“Your name isn't Sniffles?" Ewan pretended to be surprised.”
