Top 90 Elizabeth Lim Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Elizabeth Lim

2. “And this too, I will overcome.”

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

— Elizabeth Lim

4. “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

5. “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

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

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7. “Until time blots out the stars.”

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

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

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

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

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

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13. “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.”

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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.”

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

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16. “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.”

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17. “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.”

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

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

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20. “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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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.”

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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.”

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

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

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

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27. “If dying is this beautiful, then I wish I was a tree too. I’d be happy to die and be reborn in the spring.”

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

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29. “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.”

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

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

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

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33. “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.”

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34. “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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35. “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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36. “People will see what they want to see.”

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37. “The more you worry about it, the less you’ll be able to concentrate.”

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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. “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.”

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40. “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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41. “So much has changed. It’s funny, the thought of one’s parents getting old. When we’re children, they worry so about us. Now I feel like things have reversed, and soon I’ll be expected to take on his responsibilities.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “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.”

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

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45. “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.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “But a promise is a promise, not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care. It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”

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49. “The Nightingale Aria is about more than a bird who is lost in the forest. The nightingale is angry, she is miserable, she is in pain. It is a song of transformation, of transcendence. You see, when her melody returns, it transcends into something new. She finds love amid despair and wretched loneliness; it is this new transformation, this change in her song, that allows her to finally find her way home. It is meant to make the listener weep and feel joy at the same time.”

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50. “I want you to know that some journeys have ends, but not this one. This one will change you. Irrevocably.” “Don’t all journeys change you?” “It isn’t the same.” He leaned forward. “I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.” “What did you find?” His voice turned lethally soft. “That it’s just the beginning.”

— Elizabeth Lim