Top 350 Mary E. Pearson Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “It wasn’t good to dwell on maybes. Maybes could be twisted into things that never really existed.”

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103. “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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104. “You have not stolen my heart, but I give it freely.”

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105. “Killing in the name of war was one thing. Killing one’s own kin was quite another.”

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106. “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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107. “Every kiss, every touch, was a promise that we both knew, I was his and he was mine, and no conspiracy or scheme of kingdoms had a fraction of the power that surged between us.”

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

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110. “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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111. “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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112. “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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113. “When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?”

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

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “Then we come from opposite but similar worlds, don’t we?”

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “Darkness was my ally. It made me forget the world I was in and invited me to dream of another.”

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121. “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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122. “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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123. “There are always choices. Some choices are just not easy to make.”

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

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125. “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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126. “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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127. “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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128. “Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?”

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

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130. “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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131. “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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132. “I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold.”

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133. “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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134. “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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135. “I don’t care what mistakes I made or what mistakes you made. I’d make every single one again, if that was the only way to be with you.”

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

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137. “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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138. “Yes, I could turn away and ignore everything in my heart. Leave it to someone else! Maybe hundreds have! But maybe I choose to step forward, instead of stepping back.”

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

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “Sometimes we are pushed to do things we thought we could never do.”

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143. “It seemed there was no bottom to whatever abyss we bordered, and with each step, I vowed if I ever did meet the trail’s end and was unmasked and untied, I’d never waste a chance again – if I was going to die, it would be when I could plainly see Kaden as I thrust a knife between his deceitful Vendan ribs.”

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144. “Because too little talk frightens people and prompts questions. They’re afraid of what goes on in a silent mind. As maybe they should be.”

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145. “It was a wild indulgent slope we had cascaded down, and I didn’t care. For once in my life, I didn’t care about tomorrow. I didn’t care if I starved or died. I feasted on the now, and I didn’t let myself think about who he was or who I was, only who we were right now in this moment and how he made me feel on this patch of earth, in this patch of shade. In this strange upside-down world, ignoring tomorrow seemed as natural and expected as breathing.”

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146. “It doesn’t matter how many universes come and go, I will always remember who we were together.”

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147. “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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148. “But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.”

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149. “A choir of pink-cheeked boys lift their voices as a priest seems to pull the music from their throats with the urging of his hands.”

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

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