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“No. That was hard. I wasn’t naturally good at it, not like the singing. It used to frustrate me to no end…Terra, my fighting instructor, would scold my impatience constantly. So, I practiced. A lot. Every day, all day, all the time. Until the sword was weightless in my hand. Until it was a part of me, just as much as as my voice was. I forced it to be.”

“Dallas, Trace, Iron…they all think I’m boring. I know they do. I’m not boring. I’m just worried. All the time. Afraid. All the time. About them. About Macon. About Dex. Someone has to be the cautious one. The reliable one”

“The real tragedy of your life…you will never stop having faith in the people around you, even when they hurt you over and over again”

“When there is only you, you do not get to choose which jobs you want, you do not get to decide you are incapable of anything. There is no room for distaste or weakness. You must do it all. All of the ugliness, the sadness, the things most people can’t stand to even think about, all must live inside of you. You must be capable of everything.”

“Watching her daughter standing there, scrubbing down a table, June saw herself, only twenty years younger, and suddenly had the feeling she was going to jump out of her skin.
‘Take your brothers and sister to the beach.’ ‘But—‘ Nina began to protest. She wanted to clean the tables because who else would clean them?
‘Go!’
Nina thought she was in trouble. June believed she was setting her free”

“When she confessed these ideas to him, asking if he thought any of it was possible, he always told her the same thing. ‘I’ll give you the world.’”