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“Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?”

“I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.”

“Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.”

“There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.”

“Three more days. That’s what Sven always told me. When you think you’re at the end of your rope, give it three more days. And then another three. Sometimes you’ll find the rope is longer than you thought.”

“Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight.”

“Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza."
"Turn your ear to the wind," she interpreted. "Stand strong.”

“Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.”

“… and time becomes a forgotten detail.”

“Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?”

“Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says.
I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.”

“I know you have the patience of a rapidly decomposing turd.”

“Awareness
There is a dark place.
A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words.
I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die.
But I can't.
The darkness and silence go on forever.
It is not a dream.
I don't dream.”

“A perfect night… a perfect forever”

“Sometimes the enemy is just one person who will bring down a kingdom.”

“Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man.”

“What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.”

“Until one comes who is mightier,
The one sprung from misery,
The one who was weak,
The one who was hunted,
The one marked with claw and vine,
The one named in secret,
The one called Jezelia.”

“Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?”

“If I could only reach out and touch the stars, I would know everything. I would understand.”

“Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?”

“I’m not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We’ve had a terrible start—it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”

“I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)”

“I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.”

“This world, it breathes you in … it knows you, and then it breathes you out again, shares you.”

“Kiss me," I said. "Before you say anything else, just kiss me and hold me and tell me it was worth it, no matter what happens.”

“I would never betray Venda.”
“Sometimes we’re all pushed to do things we thought we could never do.”