Top 150 Maria V. Snyder Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Valek: You know a death sentence hasn’t kept us apart before. Yelena: Is that an order Valek? Valek: No, it’s a promise!”

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52. “Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don’t have the ability to connect with the power source.”

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53. “I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.”

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54. “Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.”

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55. “I didn’t want to share you, love. We have a lot of catching up to do.”

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56. “Valek coalesced from the shadows and wrapped me in his long lean arms. I soaked in his musky smell, listening to his heart beat. Strong and steady. No indication that he had been sneaking around.”

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57. “Your soul fits the void in my soul perfectly.”

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58. “My mind’s screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.”

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59. “Trust, Kiki said, Trust is peppermints.”

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60. “I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else thought, or to bother attempting to change their perceptions. My time at the Keep was just a stopover. Let them wonder.”

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61. “Life is like molten glass. It flows, it’s flexible, it can be molded and shaped and... what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential. You have a number of uncertainties in your melt right now. But they will always be there in one form or another. Always. Unlike molten glass, life can’t be fixed or frozen into a pretty vase and placed on a shelf to gather dust.”

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62. “What happened in the past can’t be changed, but it can be a guide for what happens in your future.”

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63. “As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else wanted, but I had treated each task as if it had been essential to do well – a trick I had learned from my father.”

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64. “In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was ‘The horses know where to go.’ It’s certainly not a military strategy I would use, but I’ve learned that the south uses its own strategy. And, strangely enough, it works.”

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65. “If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.”

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66. “I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.”

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67. “Nothing like having a warrant for your execution to get a girl motivated.”

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68. “Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot.”

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69. “Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies.”

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70. “Yalena: Could you always open your door? Kiki: Yes. Fence, too. Yalena Why don’t you? Kiki: Hay sweet. Fresh water. Peppermints.”

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71. “I took three steps and was wrapped in his arms, where I belonged. No confusion here. No worries here. No troubles here.”

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72. “Resting, recuperating, moping, it’s all the same.”

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73. “But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat.”

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74. “Out of nowhere, Valek appeared before me, yelling in my ear, shaking my shoulders. Stupidly, belatedly, I realized he was the drunk. Who else but Valek could win a fight against four large men when armed only with a beer mug?”

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75. “Dark shadows of grief haunted his expression. More than any one person should be asked to bear. But that was the problem with grief. No one ever asked for it. It arrived with its bags packed for an extended stay. It settled into your best guest room and demanded to be waited on all day long, and which it finally shuffled out the door, it left behind permanent scratches on your furniture.”

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76. “My cape caught fire. I dived to the sand and rolled on the ground to snuff the flames. So much for my grand entrance.”

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77. “And clay-caked clothes are so last year.”

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78. “Kerrick the weed.”

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79. “Valek would get more from me than a smile.”

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80. “I reached 1400 weeks, the age of maturity. The age when you were no longer considered a child. It was when you became a scrub and the reality of what the rest of your life would be like became suddenly and brutally apparent. The old-timers called it sweet sixteen, but there wasn’t anything sweet about it. I.”

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81. “The benefit of appearing so young is I’m constantly underestimated.”

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82. “I never laugh at a beautiful woman. I’d much rather laugh and dance with her.”

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83. “I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn’t make verbal threats were the most dangerous.”

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84. “Some Queen of the Pipes, I thought. I’d believed I was better than a mindless drone. But I was the mindless one, hiding away. Even now I referred to them as if I didn’t belong.”

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85. “When I carved this, my thoughts were on you, love. Your life is like this snake’s coils. No matter how many turns it makes, you’ll end up back where you belong. With me.”

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86. “You keep things interesting, love. It would be boring without you.”

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87. “It’s a good thing you’re not my Story Weaver. You’re easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can’t see the quality of the threads.” “Well.”

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88. “Should haves lead to death.”

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89. “Dead air surrounded me. My magic was gone.”

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90. “I’m your mother. I see all. Hear all. Know all.”

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91. “When the effort fails, is it worth the cost?”

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92. “I couldn’t let my fear stop me from doing what I needed to do.”

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93. “Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”

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94. “I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can’t believe we named a major life changing event after livestock – or actually a stuffed animal – but it made sense at the time.”

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95. “Your soul is drenched black with the blood of your victims, my dear, and that is why you can’t see it. When you die, that heavy blood filled essence will sink to the bottom of the earth where you will burn in eternity for your crimes.”

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96. “It’s a good thing you can’t read my mind, love.”

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97. “It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.”

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98. “Two men. I had just killed two men. A killing machine, I hadn’t even hesitated. Fear and rage settled deep in my chest, forming a layer of ice around my heart.”

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99. “Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.”

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100. “I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything’s superior neck.”

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