Maya Motayne > Quotes

“Who you are when you’re angry is still you. It doesn’t have to be all of you, but it’s a piece of you all the same. If you deny that, you might as well deny your whole maldito self and be done with it”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“She'd spent so much time drowning in her past that she hadn't been able to swim to the surface and see a future for herself that wasn't stained with blood and fear”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“He hadn't seen her as something to bend into whatever shape would better serve him.

He'd seen her as a person. A person who said no.”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“We all carry good and bad within us, light and dark. That is what makes us human. And remember, no matter how far into the darkness we may fall, it is never too late to seek the light.”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“People like me, we’re ants, and rulers are just a big foot looming over us ready to squish us into the dirt. Doesn’t matter whose body the foot is attached to, the purpose is still the same.”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“What a soft life he must lead to not see the freedom in what she could do. In the power of being so many people that you became no one at all. People with one face, one story, have weaknesses, vulnerabilities, things to exploit and dangle over their heads. But to be no one was to have nothing to lose and nothing to gain. That was true freedom, plain and simple.”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“But the more he begged the magic, the more he tried to grip it in his shaking hands, the more it boud away from him, skittering away from his touch. Alfie nknew what this meant. "If magic shies away from your touch your intentions are not the right ones. You must let it go.”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“Those who became great and loved and remembered were those who hesitated, those who knew the task before them was not to be taken lightly. Those who were afraid but stepped forward nonetheless.”
― Maya Motayne, Oculta

“- I'm tired. It's been a hell of a week and I came in here through a damned pig! I don't have the energy to lie!
Alfie wondered if "coming in through a pig" was some sort of slang he had yet to hear.”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“Freedom, she was coming to understand, could be found in a person instead of a place.”
― Maya Motayne , Nocturna

“Know that the voice in your head telling you that you are not worthy, that this task is too great for you to comprehend, may in fact be all the proof you need to know that you are worthy.”
― Maya Motayne, Oculta

“— Os ricos nascem ricos e morrem ainda mais ricos, e o restante de nós morre cedo.”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“— Pessoas como eu são formiguinhas. E os governantes não passam de um enorme pé que paira sobre nós, pronto para nos esmagar.”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“Todos carregamos o bem e o mal dentro de nós, luz e escuridão. É o que nos torna humanos. E, lembrem: não importa o quanto nos afundemos na escuridão, nunca é tarde demais para procurar a luz.”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“Finn's eyes met his and it occurred to her that magic could be spoken and drawn in chalk or invoked when controlling an element but there was also another kind of magic. The type of magic born when trust bloomed between two people, trust that could survive the worst of your faults and secrets, your greatest fears.”
― Maya Motayne, Oculta