Top 140 Jennifer A. Nielsen Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “That day I brought Nila here, you asked me to stay the night. Was that a sincere offer?” “Of course it was.” “Because of what I’d done for her?” “Because you looked like someone who needed a place to stay.”

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102. “And if doing what’s right makes someone angry with me, then may I cause rage and fury wherever I go.”

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103. “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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104. “There was something you failed to understand about me. I never run!”

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105. “He hurt your back,” Roden said. “I can tell by the way you’re walking.” “My back is fine.” It wasn’t true, but I felt braver for saying it. “It’s your own fault if he did hurt it,” Tobias said. “Why do you do it?” I shrugged. “What?” “Aggravate people the way you do. You seem bent on making enemies here.” “And you insist on making false friends.”

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106. “So do you want to bow to me now or wait until we reach Drylliad?”

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107. “But this new king is also my older brother. He was always the one to pick me up when I fell, to warn me of dangers I had not yet discovered, to teach me the wisdom I had yet to learn for myself. All my life, I thought if I could only be more like him, then I would somehow find the best in myself. All my life I have fallen short of that goal, and yet he believed in me anyway, and gave me hope of being a better person tomorrow.”

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108. “But there is something a human can do that an animal never can. Create art.”

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109. “I risked my life for you. So don’t you ever again disrespect the risks I took by claiming you weren’t worth it!”

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110. “Promise me that you will find happiness in life, Jaron. Don’t give in to bitterness.”

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111. “I became who I was meant to be and you should do the same.”

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112. “Let us be foolish, then, because if we save even one life, we are the best of fools.”

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113. “In all fairness to his soldiers, until the moment I spit on their king, I had probably looked pretty humble.”

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114. “I raised both my arms and with a new strength to my voice, said, “My people, my friends. We are Carthya!”

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115. “You won’t eat to save yourself, but you will to save a stranger. How interesting.”

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116. “Courage comes from within.”

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117. “I never denied being a fool,” I said, lying back down on my bed. “That’s the difference between us.”

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118. “What is life but a series of jokes? We either laugh with them or become the object of them.”

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119. “My feelings for him weren’t so much anger as they were a single-minded desire to introduce him to Antora’s largest catapult.”

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120. “The most difficult time to be hungry is when the pangs first start. When the body realizes it’s missed a meal and signals that it wants food. But after a while, it gives up asking; it gives up expecting anything. The will return, of course, and the hunger never goes away.”

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121. “Healing pools are not as common as you seem to think, the way you go around getting yourself kicked.” “Nor are physicians common enough for you to go around stabbing everyone who crosses you.” She smiled. “Remember that, next time you think of crossing me. Are you all right?” “I’m fine. They just knocked the wind out of me.” “Yes, and probably took a few of your ribs with it.”

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122. “I forced a smile to my face and lifted my chin. He pressed his lips to mine with all the romance of kissing a clam.”

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123. “It wasn’t a good idea, but I seemed to be experiencing a shortage of better alternatives.”

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124. “Then I’ll find you soon. But if I don’t – if I can’t – then be happy and know I loved you.”

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125. “For who are we all, if not the product of who we love, what we know, and every wonderful word that we have read?”

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126. “There were good and bad people everywhere. The more I embraced those who were good, the more I hoped to dispel the evil from my life.”

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127. “It takes great courage to relive one’s past,” Loelle said. “But you are the sum of all your memories. To withhold the bad would be to deprive yourself of all that those difficult times taught you. You can do this, Kestra.”

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128. “I want my final words before death to simply be that I lived.”

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129. “When the other side only wants your destruction, what is left to negotiate?”

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130. “There will come a time when everyone must account for their actions during this war. Some will be judged as evil, others as complacent. But I suspect the greatest number of us will fall to our knees and weep when we discover the full extent of the crimes being committed here.”

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131. “I smiled. “It has rubies on it. I could sell those for.”

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132. “And my stature never sank when I joined you. You may be a thief, but there is far more good in you than bad. I’m better off for knowing you.”

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133. “The Nazis murder us many times over. They take our ability to worship properly – a spiritual death. They separate our families – another death there. They kill our dignity, our will to live, and finally they take our lives. The question isn’t whether my family is gone. It’s only a matter of how many deaths they’ve suffered so far.”

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134. “The words wouldn’t lead to our independence – words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence.”

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135. “I made jokes because the alternative was to scream as loudly on the outside as I was on the inside. Because I needed to laugh so that I wouldn’t burn with anger at the injustices around me.”

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136. “Sal could have killed me for trying to escape the mines, but he didn’t. I’d certainly given him plenty of reasons to do it before then as well. I had to help him now. The.”

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137. “I’d never attempted roast thievery before, and I was already regretting it. It happens to be very difficult to hold a chunk of raw meat while running. More slippery than I’d anticipated. If the butcher didn’t catch me with his cleaver first, and literally cut of my future plans, I vowed to remember to get the meat wrapped next time. Then steal it.”

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138. “Duka baru menguar di dada, berbeda dari yang kurasakan sebelumnya. Jika pada suatu saat ada seorang yang dapat kuberikan hatiku. Aku Baru saja mengusirnya dari hidupku selamanya.”

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139. “Lezione importante’ erano parole in codice per ‘dolore provocato da qualcuno senza chiedere scusa’.”

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140. “There was no commotion, only me doing a literal somersault across the meeting table and frightening Mistress Kitcher so much that she leapt away and lost her wig. Hence all the screaming. Mine, not hers.”

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141. “They had not just taken pieces of his beard. They had robbed my father of his dignity, which was far worse.”

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142. “Or in his case, he’d go to Tartarus, where evil men were sent deep into the darkest pit guarded by a monster with fifty sharp-toothed jaws. I liked the idea of him spending some time there, though it was hardly fair to the monster to have to deal with a venomous man like Brutus.”

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143. “I’ve got to go.” “Go where?” “To go. I’d have just taken care of it myself, but it looks like you want to come along.” Mott cursed. “Wait for morning.” “Wish I could. I’ve been cursed with my mother’s pea-size bladder.”

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144. “I wished he hadn’t, even if I had asked him to.”

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145. “We’ve given our lives to God. Whatever happens to us now is all right.”

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146. “For us the dark night had only begun.”

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