Top 90 Elizabeth Lim Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

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52. “People will see what they want to see.”

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53. “Let’s play a game,” I shouted, echoing his earlier words. “You let go before I kill you.”

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54. “I would not have you be alone, Lina, not in your joys or your sorrows. I would wish your strand knotted to mine, always.”

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55. “Even chaos has its place.”

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56. “I saw how protective Delann is of you. Yet he respects you.”

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57. “The gown was still warm from having been pressed, and the ruffles tickled her collarbone as she slipped it onto her body.”

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58. “I took in the smudges of ink and charcoal on his rolled sleeves, the windswept hair neatly gathered at his nape, his dark eyes, somehow brighter every time I saw them. Kiki was right, he wasn’t so much the barbarian I’d pictured.”

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59. “I’ve seen many men dress as girls to evade serving in the army, but never any women who dressed as boys so they could serve.”

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60. “I could of done a hundred things different, but it was too late now.”

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61. “I want you to know that some journeys have ends, but not this one, This one will change you.”

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62. “Having Charles pick a bride in such a way, having all the women parade themselves about the palace. Love doesn’t happen like that. Love takes time.”

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63. “The lightning has ceased, leaving jagged scars among the starry patchwork of night.”

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64. “Whatever history remembered of us, whether it likened us to the sun and the moon – only permitted to meet once a year – or simply to a boy and a girl touched by the stars, fate had danced to bring us together.”

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65. “It’s not wandering if I know how to get home.”

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66. “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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67. “Your brothers warned me that a lifetime with you would mean plenty of jabs to my pride. But my love for you is far greater than pride, Shiori. Far greater than anything.”

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68. “All legends have a spark of truth. Sometimes more than a spark.”

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69. “You will hold the seams of our family together, Maia. No other tailor in the world can do that.”

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70. “The violins seemed to swoon with her every step, or maybe she was simply happy.”

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71. “If dying is this beautiful, then I wish I were a tree too. I’d be happy to die and be reborn in the spring.” How they’d laughed at me. I laughed now too, bitterly.”

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72. “But remember, happiness isn’t just a smile. You can’t force it to come true.”

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73. “A girl isn’t fit to be anything more than a prize.”

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74. “Seize the wind,” I whispered. “Don’t become the kite that never flies.”

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75. “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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76. “Will you be able to find your way back? His grin widened, and I realized I’d shown him a sign that I still cared. To you, always.”

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77. “You can’t know happiness if your life is built around resentment.”

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78. “Your fate is bound to mine now,” I whispered, my lips against his. “Your heart is my own, and where you are is my home. Whatever we face, we face it together.” “Together,” he echoed firmly. “Always.”

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79. “But I did worry about him. Now I understood the fatigue written on his brow, the hiding and evasive answers.”

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80. “You’ll learn that certain things aren’t worth the trouble.”

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81. “Sometimes finding the way is tricky, but you always do. As long as you don’t give up.”

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82. “Only rocks considered sitting still a virtue. Demons take me before I called it one of mine.”

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83. “For what was chaos but a knife slashing across the fabric of destiny?”

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84. “The path to happiness is not always an easy one.”

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85. “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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86. “Anybody can become anything, so long as they put their minds to it.”

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87. “Through the glass was a marvelous display of layered cakes decorated with pink rosettes and candied fruits, chocolate-laced cookies, and buttery pastries dotted with jam.”

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88. “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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89. “I’ve missed the sound of you.”

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90. “Remember, happiness isn’t just a smile. You can’t force it to come true... Go to this masquerade ball with your new friends, put on a pretty gown, and dance the night away. Sneak out into the royal gardens and drink tea under the moonlight. Get lost in the streets of Valors and spend some of your wages on something that’ll make you happy to look at every morning. Even the small joys are worth cherishing, and they will lead to greater ones.”

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

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92. “Love has a way of addling our wits.”

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93. “Even in times of despair, she finds something to laugh about. This is her strength.”

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94. “But hope was a valuable weapon, and we were sharpening its every edge.”

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95. “It is wishful thinking to hope the gods might listen to you.”

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96. “Mulan stared at the steaming liquid, watching the dried leaves swirl to the bottom. How beautiful the tea looked, too- she’d never seen tea so colorful. Reds and pinks swirled in with amber and blue- like the mesmerizing patterns on a butterfly.”

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97. “She didn’t love me until the end. She loved you from the beginning.”

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