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.”

— Elizabeth Lim

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

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

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

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56. “Even chaos has its place.”

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

— Elizabeth Lim

58. “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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59. “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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60. “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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61. “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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62. “All legends have a spark of truth. Sometimes more than a spark.”

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

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

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65. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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73. “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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74. “I’ve missed the sound of you.”

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75. “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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76. “Love has a way of addling our wits.”

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

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

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79. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lim

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

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81. “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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82. “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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83. “I could of done a hundred things different, but it was too late now.”

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

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

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

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88. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lim

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

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

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

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

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

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

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