Top 350 Mary E. Pearson Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I’d find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. it was a conscious effort.”

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102. “I look out the window, a jammed-up feeling growing inside. Am I going to cry? Or is it something else? My eyes are dry, but I feel like something wants to burst out of me. I focus on the empty road outside. Hold back. Hold it in. Keep your mouth shut, Jenna. Keep it shut. Shut. Shut.”

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103. “When your life has had few events to occupy it, it’s amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.”

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104. “My mother’s abscence hit me in a new, bitter way, because sometimes you can’t begin to know everything you’ve lost until someone shows you what you might have had.”

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105. “But I would always see her. Until I drew my last breath, it would always be her face I saw when I closed my eyes at night, and her face again when I woke each morning. I would force myself to forget the last words I heard from her lips. I would remember others. I love you, Jafir de Aldrid. Words that, now, I was sure I had never deserved. I.”

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106. “He looks at me and I know he is going to say no but I don’t turn away and I don’t stop looking because ever since Mira said I noticed him I have made a point not to notice him and for the first time I am noticing that his eyes have a dark ring of brown around a golden iris and I find that infinitely interesting because my eyes are the same color and I think he notices this too at the exact same moment and a chill shivers over me, and like a miracle, he says, “Let’s go.”

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107. “Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can’t breathe.”

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108. “One day he gave me a handful of sky when he saw me gazing up at the clouds, just to see me smile. I put it in my pocket.”

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109. “We were Rahtan, we could chisel what made us uncomfortable and awkward into an ice sculpture in hell if we had to.”

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110. “I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence. I would not truly feed your face to the hogs. It might make them sick.”

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111. “Now I understood why Sven preferred soldiering to love. It was easier to understand and far less likely to get you killed. I.”

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112. “The truths of the world wish to be known, but they won’t force themselves upon you the way lies will. They’ll court you, whisper to you, play behind your eyelids, slip inside and warm your blood, dance along your spine and caress your neck until your flesh rises in bumps.”

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113. “I left and went to the roof, where it was only me, a thousand blinking stars, and the beauty of darkness stretched to the ends of the universe, snuffing out the endless games of courts and kingdoms.”

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114. “Everything had changed between us the day she held my slingshot and I placed my arms around her. It frightened me, this change, the way it made me feel and even think differently, but every day since then, as I rode to the valley, all I could think of was holding her again, kissing her, listening to her, watching her laugh. Just.”

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115. “Darkness was my ally. It made me forget the world I was in and invited me to dream of another.”

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116. “Duty. That was a word I hated as much as tradition.”

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117. “Now he was the one who was incredulous. He drew his knife from its sheath, but he was too weak to step forward, and it spilled from his hand. His sword remained useless at his side. He looked back at me in disbelief and slid to the ground, his face twisted in pain. I walked closer and stood over him, kicking his knife away. “You were wrong, Komizar. It’s much easier to kill a man than a horse.”

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118. “It wasn’t good to dwell on maybes. Maybes could be twisted into things that never really existed.”

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119. “He fell back against the door, his eyes closed, and he slid to the floor, still sitting upright. All I had to do was open the door and he’d tumble out backward, but with my luck, he’d break his neck going down the steps, and I’d be left with Malich to deal with. I.”

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120. “There are always choices. Some choices are just not easy to make.”

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121. “I didn’t need to fall in love with him again. I had never fallen out.”

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122. “Stop cutting me off!” he yelled. The steel of his eyes sparkled with warning. “The least you can do is give me a chance to speak! We’re gonna talk!”

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123. “Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?”

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124. “He believes me. But that is nothing new. He always did because I was a rule follower. I played by the rules he understood. But there are new rules now, ones he doesn’t know yet. He’ll learn. Just as I’m learning.”

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125. “There was only one thing that someone with great power wanted. More of it.”

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126. “Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased? I wanted to know. As.”

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127. “When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?”

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128. “Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.”

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129. “How many hours can one person spend locked in a bathroom, looking at skin, hair, eyes. Feeling fingers, toes. And the absurdity of a belly button?”

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130. “Then we come from opposite but similar worlds, don’t we?”

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131. “Love didn’t end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn’t command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.”

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132. “Because if I could believe in tomorrow or the next day, maybe that would give the magic time to come true. Or better, maybe by then I wouldn’t need the magic at all.”

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133. “Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man.”

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134. “His eyes narrowed as if contemplating the gravity of the unforgivable. That was what I both hated and loved about Rafe. He challenged me on everything I said, but he also listened intently. He listened as if every word I said mattered.”

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135. “I’m not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We’ve had a terrible start – it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”

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136. “My body molded to his, and the seconds ticked by. All I wanted was more time with him. His lips traveled to my neck. “It was worth it, Lia,” he said. “Every mile, every day. I’d do it all again. I’d chase you across three continents if that’s what it took to be with you.”

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137. “Kiss me,” I said. “Before you say anything else, just kiss me and hold me and tell me it was worth it, no matter what happens.”

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138. “It was worth it, Lia,” He said. “Every mile, every day. I’d do it all again. I’d chase you across three continents if that’s what it took to be with you.”

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139. “I went back to my thoughts of Lia. How could I tell her that I knew in my gut from almost the beginning that we were meant to be together? That I had seen myself growing old with her. That a gift I wasn’t even sure she really possessed had told me her name long before I ever laid eyes on her.”

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140. “Crown Prince Walther of Morrighan was dead... Silence choked the crowd for a moment and then mother after mother, sister, father, wife, brother, fell to their knees.”

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141. “It’s not an easy thing to tell the girl that you love more than life itself that you’re going to marry someone else.”

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142. “I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold.”

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143. “If I’d feel like a cloud before, now in was like a planet winking from the heavens. A burden shared wasn’t so heavy to bear anymore.”

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144. “Some last words should never be said.”

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145. “The immensity of the death was numbing. But I knew at some point tears would come again. The pain would take hold of me unexpectedly and throw me to my knees. There were no rules to grief, but there were rules to life, and in those first few days, the requirements of the living demanded I keep going. – The Beauty of Darkness.”

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146. “I suppose if we’re going to fall in love all over again, kissing will be part of it.”

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147. “There were two ways to approach the inevitable – being dragged to meet your fate or taking the offensive.”

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148. “The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we’ve never accomplished before. What we’ve done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way.”

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149. “Sometimes we are pushed to do things we thought we could never do.”

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150. “These were the places that Ama described in her stories, places where all the children of the tribe would be princes and princesses and their stomachs always full. It was a once-upon-a-time world that used to be. In.”

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