Top 140 Jennifer A. Nielsen Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “How do you destroy a people? You take away their culture. And how is that done? You must take their language, their history, their very identity. How would you do that?” I pressed my lips together, then looked up at her. “You ban their books.”

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52. “Sometimes I hated the way my brain worked, like a magnet to thoughts I should not have and actions I should not take. My mother said I was born backward and that probably explained how I’d gotten this way. Maybe she was right – I didn’t know.”

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53. “I never denied being a fool. That’s the difference between us.”

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54. “Mincemeat!” Dak said. “Yes, Sera, you’re brilliant! So am I, by the way. We’re still waiting on Riq.”

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55. “My lady, you are the only one who can play the traitor’s game, and win.”

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56. “We will not win, we will not get glory, not in this life, anyway. We are fighting for the three lines of history just so that it will not be said that our youth went like sheep to the slaughter.”

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57. “Real spies don’t have all the cool gadgets you see in the movies,” Dak said, watching Sera struggle with the lock. “Though I sure wish we had a sonic screwdriver right about now.”

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58. “Tears welled in my eyes, bringing to the surface an emotion that I had always thought would forever linger out of my reach. I was at peace.”

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59. “I wasn’t exactly sure how I could possibly steal a cannon, but I loved the idea of trying.”

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60. “Was it possible for a king to run so far from his identity that he ceased to be anyone special? Because I had never felt lower, or less worthy of my title.”

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61. “Wherever our lives lead us, one thing is certain. You and I will always be connected. You might be able to deny that, but I can’t. Even I am not that good a liar.”

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62. “With each brick, my hopes faded until nothing was left. If there had ever been a chance of Dominic and my father returning, then the wall took that too. My schoolteacher taught us a new song that thanked our leaders for building a wall to keep the fascists out. I muted my glares and only mouthed the words when my teacher was looking – I couldn’t bear to sing the lies.”

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63. “Conner answered, “Mrs. Turbeldy warned me that you have a history of running away. Where did you go?” To the church of course. To confess my sins.”

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64. “No, it’s real gold. I am real, Lord Kerwyn.”

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65. “I can’t remember a minute since we met when I haven’t been in love with you.”

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66. “Ah. How’s your leg where I stabbed you?” “It hurts.” “Good.”

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67. “I whispered a prayer that God would see him there safely, and then carry his family through the storm that was sure to follow his disappearance. There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist.”

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68. “A door opened down the hallway and I turned to see who was coming. In that instant, Anna slammed her door shut, and I became a disease again.”

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69. “You know that if you’re this paranoid as king, it’ll eat you alive.”

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70. “What’s the point of gaining peace if it costs us our freedom? I won’t trade the one for the other.”

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71. “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights activist, 1963.”

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72. “He talked whenever he was nervous, or excited, or bored, or for that matter, awake.”

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73. “Unfortunately, I understood exactly how she felt. Nobody should have to bow to a false prince.”

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74. “Nobody comes back from the pirates,” he muttered. “Ever.”

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75. “You were wrong, commander. Whatever chains you try to place on me, I will always, always, rise from them. I’m not buying my freedom, because you never owned it. But I am taking it back, for me, and for my country.”

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76. “I haven’t don anything wrong.” At least, not for a few hours.”

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77. “Her anger was so real, I could feel it in the air between us.”

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78. “Tomorrow we will rejoin the war. So it’s time to decide who you are. Will you be carried off by this wind coming at us, or stand and face it?”

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79. “This is real, then?” Jaron’s heart pounded, though he couldn’t tell whether it was from sadness or fear for his future. “When you leave, I’m no longer Prince Jaron. I’ll be nothing but a commoner. An orphan.”

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80. “In hindsight, these gardens were the perfect place for a nice and quiet attempted murder.”

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81. “If this was a sample of what it would be like to work with Trina, I would soon die from prolonged exposure to idiocy.”

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82. “Never believe the best of what anyone says about a person, nor the worst.”

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83. “I am willing to pay for the consequences of my actions, but when I let someone get to close to me, the consequences may come to them instead. I can’t allow that.”

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84. “Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine, German poet.”

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85. “Sacrificing oneself so that others might live was the ultimate act of love.”

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86. “She wanted us to buy the censored albums instead, but that missed the whole point of rock and roll. Nobody wanted “approved music.”

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87. “I bathe in private!”

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88. “I had plenty of money in a satchel inside my trunk, but if they were going to kidnap me, then they could do it with their own coins.”

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89. “If both Evendell and I survived this, we would have to discuss his timing when explosives were involved.”

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90. “Everything you say is a lie! Do you think I’m stupid?” She smirked. “Stupid is the least of your problems.”

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91. “I might have been the one in chains, but he was the one who looked afraid.”

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92. “There is no Jewish problem. The problem is with the rest of us who pass beside the ghetto walls with a fresh loaf of bread, knowing the people are starving on the other side, and yet we do nothing.”

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93. “Conner had died much as he lived, in the grayest shadow between right and wrong.”

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94. “I motioned Kestra over to the table. “Come eat.” “After Trina has breathed on it? I’d rather eat off the floor.”

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95. “Basil whispered, “May I kiss you, Kestra?” He was still here? And he wanted to kiss me?”

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96. “For on the far wall, a girl with long brown hair and tea-colored eyes was slowly rising to her feet. Imogen.”

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97. “When we drew up to the soldiers, Felix told them who he was and about the griffin he was bringing in. A soldier eyed me. “You have new slaves too?”

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98. “Tell me you’re not broken,” he said. “I know it must feel that way, but you can rise from this.”

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99. “I loved everyone who’s been taken from me. So don’t tell me when I’m allowed to break.”

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100. “Celia had served me well, but not always with the full function of her brain.”

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