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“Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.”
― Guardian of the Dead
― Guardian of the Dead
“No matter how much money he'd been offered or how many glittering stars had requested duets, he hadn't sung for them.
But he'd sung for me.”
― When We Wake
But he'd sung for me.”
― When We Wake
“Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.”
― Guardian of the Dead
― Guardian of the Dead
“You knew what I was," he said, taking his hair back from his face, eyes wild with the will to make me believe. "You knew that my face is a lie, just pretending to be human. And you still wanted me, you could touch me, you could see what I am, the only one who knew and wanted me all the same, and you said I wasn't a --" his chest hitched. "Not a monster. I was going to tell you, and then I thought, well, I'm probably going to die in the underworld, so why can't I have this until then? I'm the stupid one; not you. I'm so sorry.”
― Guardian of the Dead
― Guardian of the Dead
“Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.”
― Guardian of the Dead
― Guardian of the Dead
“There wasn't any food or heat, but we had light, and places to sit, and a complete lack of frightening murderers, and that turned out to be enough for now.”
― Guardian of the Dead
― Guardian of the Dead
“No one can take your soul from you. You have to give it away.
Here's my soul. I'm giving it to you.
I hope you're listening.”
― When We Wake
Here's my soul. I'm giving it to you.
I hope you're listening.”
― When We Wake
“It's the shape of the stories that matters, the way belief forms around it. The story has real weight', He pointed at himself. 'Patupaiarehe look like monsters in some stories, but they're beautiful in a lot. I guess people believed more in the beautiful version. And the ideal of beauty changes. If I'd been born two hundred years ago, I bet I wouldn't look like this. The stories shaped me. They shape everyone, inside and out, but me more than most, because I'm magic.”
― Guardian of the Dead
― Guardian of the Dead
“Talent is great, but persistence is totally underrated.”
― When We Wake
― When We Wake
“the”
― Guardian of the Dead
― Guardian of the Dead
“Mansfield’s rulebook treated me like a stupid kid, and I found myself acting like one.”
― Guardian of the Dead
― Guardian of the Dead
