Top 90 Elizabeth Lim Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You are my daughter, not of my blood, but of my heart.”

— Elizabeth Lim

2. “And this too, I will overcome.”

— Elizabeth Lim

3. “No matter where life takes you, you will be like those stars – connected by the light you shine together.”

— Elizabeth Lim

4. “Surround yourself with those who’ll love you always, through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone’s lantern shine.”

— Elizabeth Lim

5. “If fate is a bunch of strings, then I’ll carry scissors. My choices are my own. I’ll make them as I please.”

— Elizabeth Lim

6. “Even the small joys are worth cherishing, and they will lead you to greater ones.”

— Elizabeth Lim

7. “Until time blots out the stars.”

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8. “We were like the sun and the moon, sharing the same stars and the same sky.”

— Elizabeth Lim

9. “Food feeds the belly, thoughts feed the mind, but love is what feeds the heart.”

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10. “I wish that one day someone will love me. Someone will look me in the eyes without fear or pity. Someone will take away the loneliness etched in my heart so that I will know what it’s like to be loved. So I can laugh without tasting the bitterness on my tongue once the sound fades.”

— Elizabeth Lim

11. “Your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”

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12. “Fear is just a game, Shiori, I reminded myself. You win by playing.”

— Elizabeth Lim

13. “I am Fa Mulan, a girl who would sacrifice her life for her family and for China. I am a girl who journeyed into the Underworld to save her friend from dying. I am a girl who has fought battle after battle to finally recognize herself in the mirror. And now I do.”

— Elizabeth Lim

14. “Find the light that makes your lantern shine,” she used to say. “Hold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame.”

— Elizabeth Lim

15. “Now that I’ve found you again, Maia, I will never leave you. I will stay by your side until the fire in the sun grows cold and the light in the moon is no more. Until time blots out the stars.”

— Elizabeth Lim

16. “The sun was a brutal god. Brutal and merciless, he blinded those foolish enough to look at him.”

— Elizabeth Lim

17. “Pain doesn’t get easier. You just have to get stronger.”

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18. “I liked how he said my name. As if the syllables were the first notes to a song he loved to sing.”

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19. “Was it worse to be a kite with no anchor, wandering lost on the wind, or a kite that didn’t dare seize the wind and never flew?”

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20. “But I would give up the sun and moon and stars if it meant saving him.”

— Elizabeth Lim

21. “I know not everyone will accept me but I’ve learned that life isn’t perfect. You can’t be happy all the time, and I can’t expect everyone to love me.”

— Elizabeth Lim

22. “Above, the stars faded behind the misty sky, and the sun fanned its light upon us. We melted into each other until the dawn slid into dusk, and the sun paled into the moon, and the stars, once lost, became found again.”

— Elizabeth Lim

23. “War comes at a great cost, and from that sacrifice comes peace. Sometimes we must let go of what we value for the future of our country.”

— Elizabeth Lim

24. “Find the light that makes your lantern shine, ” Mama would say. Now, more than ever, Kiki was that light.”

— Elizabeth Lim

25. “Sometimes even the wickedest deeds begin with good intentions.”

— Elizabeth Lim

26. “Be the light that makes someone’s lantern shine.”

— Elizabeth Lim

27. “Now I saw in his eyes the richness of summer soil. His nose looked endearingly ruddy from being in the cold, and his voice was like a favorite song I never tired of hearing. Funny how he’d stolen his way into my heart when I’d been the thief the day we met.”

— Elizabeth Lim

28. “I’d battled ghosts and touched the stars. I’d climbed a mountain to the moon and conquered the fury of the sun.”

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29. “Never will I apologize for being the monster they made me.”

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30. “A reputation is all it takes to spread fear. And fear is a mighty weapon.”

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31. “Butterflies celebrate all love, Channi, because every love is precious. And mine for you, above all. That love is forever.”

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32. “Don’t teach a dragon history, Princess, especially not magic history.”

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33. “To this day, cranes carry the strands of our fate. They say that each time two people’s paths cross, so do their strands. When they become important to one another or make a promise to one another, a knot is tied, connecting them.”

— Elizabeth Lim

34. “They say the belly had a better memory than the heart, and I must agree. Let us eat.” his cane thumped the ground. “One cannot unravel a demon’s curse on an empty stomach.”

— Elizabeth Lim

35. “I kissed his cheeks, his nose, his eyes. His lips. I lingered there, inhaling the familiar warmth of his breath. Letting it seep into my own and stay there, as it had when I first loved him.”

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36. “Ilaria knew better than anyone how to pull her brother’s strings – when she put her mind to it. How to pull anyone’s strings, really. That was her talent.”

— Elizabeth Lim

37. “We are bound, remember? If you have no heart, I will give you half of mine. If you have no spirit, I will bind yours to mine.”

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38. “It was a tale of a boy, too. A boy who could fly but not swim. A boy with the powers of the gods but the shackles of a slave. A boy who loved me. It was a tale still being written.”

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39. “That’s what sisters are for. My joys are your joys and your miseries are my miseries.”

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40. “I dread reaching the end of my story, for it is full of knots that I haven’t had the courage to cut free.”

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41. “Yet you act as though he’s the one who gave you a piece of his heart. As if he saved you from drowning in the Sacred Lake.”

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42. “Women are always waiting on men- let it be the other way around for a change.”

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43. “I will stay by your side until the fire in the sun grows cold and the light of the moon is no more. Until time blots out the stars.”

— Elizabeth Lim

44. “I know that for every dawn, dusk must unravel its darkness.”

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45. “You’re used to being underestimated, so you want to prove yourself. Don’t let that be your crutch. Accept help when you need it.”

— Elizabeth Lim

46. “We don’t think of being bound to the oath as a sacrifice, but as an honor. It is an honor to use our powers to better this world.”

— Elizabeth Lim

47. “All the riches and power in the world cannot buy someone who loves you truly. That’s the greatest treasure.”

— Elizabeth Lim

48. “What is magic if not a little miracle? Those come in all shapes and sizes every day, with or without my help. In the form of love and joy, most often, but in other forms, too. Magic only makes the miracles come faster.”

— Elizabeth Lim

49. “In Nelronat, we believed that this life is only the beginning, That our souls are reborn into the next life and the next, and that those we love are tethered to us so we may find each other.”

— Elizabeth Lim

50. “I knew then that we were like two pieces of cloth, sewn together for life. Our stitches couldn’t be undone. I wouldn’t let them.”

— Elizabeth Lim