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"He looks to his brother, something passing between them, some unspoken knowledge that I don't like. It was a risk in letting them reunite" (Brown 439).

"The fourth breath that moves the curtains and twists the flames in the braziers and brings the snow of Hyperion in through an open window and makes [his] cape dance in the wind is that of Luna's winter. Deep in that distant pool of memory, I see him again for the first time" (Brown 447).

"Forcing myself into the Willow Way, imagining my breath as the breeze that moves the branches and sways the grass and kisses the water. A second movement of breath now comes, which moves the lavender and pushes the bees and tinkles the wind chimes of summer at Lake Silene. A third movement is that of fall" (Brown 447).

"This stone is cold like that stone. This pain is deep like that pain. This moment like that moment. Only now, with the passing of [him] there is no one left to hold the boy; all that was left of him is dead, and the life of the man must begin" (Brown 451).

"When the door closes, the composure shivers. First a crack, like a plate of glass struck by an errant pebble. The crack stretches and spreads and proliferates till the whole plate of dignity shatters all at once...A single sob escapes. It is alone in the room. No sound follows it to give it company or comfort. Just one long lament of a wounded animal and I am quiet" (Brown 451).

"Using the claws of others is not brave, nor is it the same as having claws. I would have thought you of all people would know that...One day I will have claws and I will learn to use them, my goodman. Until then, I do believe the claws of others will suffice" (Brown 448).

Pulvis et umbra sumus - We are dust and shadow

Alis aquilae - On eagle's wings

Qualis rex, talis grex - As the king, so the flock

"Grandmother thought talkative men the most hilarious of creatures, so busy projecting that they never notice anything until the jaws of the trap close around their legs. The key to learning, to power, to having the final say in everything, is observation. By all means, be a storm inside, but save your movement and wind till you know your purpose" (Brown 355).

"They planted us in stones, watered us with pain, and now marvel we have thorns. Slag them. Slag the lot of them" (Brown 346).

Reap, you bloodydamn genius

"He has little faith in our color. I'm losing all mine in him...I see by the melancholy look in his eyes that we are united in understanding that something between us is breaking and neither one of us knows how to stop it...we can never go back to the way things were...I have outgrown it. I have even outgrown him" (Brown 309-310).

Foreshadowing - is this bloodydamn pixie going to betray him?

"I feel the distance grow between us, and I wonder if this is what it is like to be a bad father-always finding a reason to be gone, a reason that, no matter how virtuous or shining in the eyes of a child, will seem empty and false in the memories of the man he will soon become" (Brown 294).

"But don't let them make you feel small...You are a world entire. You are grand and lovely. But you have to see it before anyone else does" (Brown 285).

""I'm going to shoot him, Reap," Sevro says. "He's on to us. And he's a pervert.""

"...you should know it yourself-a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn" (Zusak 216)

""I was foolish." "No," Papa said. "You were a boy."" (Zusak 219)