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“We stood in silence for some time, the fire pit all that separated me from Wacław. The real distance was far greater. We’d been an entire realm apart for the last moon, but I’d felt closer to him then than I did now. A thousand words filled my mind. None were enough.”
― The Daughters of the Earth
― The Daughters of the Earth
“He knew it was foolish to hope. He might be of the right blood, but as his mother had reminded him so often, he would never be of the right heart.”
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“To be human is to fear death, to fight for things to be better for yourself and the people you love, and to find joy in the smallest moments. When you’re immortal, each day means nothing. You can move slowly and plan for decades. Mortals don’t have that luxury, so each moment is crucial, even if you don’t realize it at the time.”
― The Daughters of the Earth
― The Daughters of the Earth
“You can be whatever you want to be,” Orn said. “Time is the only thing in this world that’s constant”
― The Silence of Killing
― The Silence of Killing
“The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugliness and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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