Top 350 Mary E. Pearson Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “It was as if no one noticed my strengths or interests. I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold... The last few years, I hadn’t measured up in any way, and the more they pushed, molded, and silenced me, the more I wanted to be heard.”

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252. “But last night – I swallowed, remembering how they looked together when I went to check on Lia during the night. I had seen his hand resting on her bed and her hand curled over his. Both of them were asleep, peaceful. I backed out of the room quietly so they wouldn’t see me. Maybe that was what had given me the courage to tell her the truth.”

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253. “Greater stories will have their way.”

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254. “This world, it breathes you in, sniffs, it knows you, and then it breathes you out again, shares you. You’re not contained here in this single place alone. The wind, time, it circles, repeats, teaches, reveals, some swaths cutting deeper than others. The universe knows. The universe has a long memory.”

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255. “The Komizar rages with enough venom to make your general look like a whimpering kitten.”

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256. “We’ve had a terrible start – it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”

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257. “There were many ways a life could be sacrificed, and it wasn’t always through dying.”

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258. “There are no rules when it comes to survival.”

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259. “I wondered at the way we all change, all the outside forces that press and mold and push us into people and things we hadn’t planned to be. Maybe it happened so gradually that by the time we noticed, it was too late to be anything else.”

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260. “I woke up on the floor of Lia’s wagon and thought she had finally planted an ax in my skull.”

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261. “Convince him. I relaxed against his touch and didn’t turn away when his mouth met mine.”

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262. “I want you to stop being afraid,′ she said gently. ‘The good ones don’t run away, Lia.”

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263. “Now is not the time for my attitude to come out of hiding.”

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264. “You are Rahtan, Kazi. You have a promise to keep, and you will betray him eventually.”

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265. “We stood and watched as the clan ran ahead of us into the valley that would become our home. Jafir pressed his hand to the small mound growing in my belly and smiled. Our hope. “We have been blessed by the gods,” he said. “The cruelties of the world are behind us now. Our child will never know them.” I.”

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266. “Even we are guilty of not nurturing gifts, and the gifts that aren’t fed shrivel and die.”

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267. “Lay down your arms, and we will create a hope that lasts.”

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268. “I didn’t have the luxury of living only in a single moment. I had to live in a hundred fractured moments that held our futures in the balance.”

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269. “The world would always know, even if men forgot.”

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270. “Betrayal tends to familiarize one with weapons.”

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271. “Maybe when you’re about to die, secrets don’t seem so important to keep.”

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272. “This life was a dream of my own making, one where my imagination was my only boundary. It was a life that I alone commanded.”

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273. “The magic of the wishes, of course, was simply in making them, fishing deep for a hidden desire, molding it into words to make it real, and tossing it into a mysterious unknown that you believed was maybe, just maybe, listening.”

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274. “She was a natural leader. This was where she needed to be. Letting her go had been the right choice, even if the decision still burned in my gut.”

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275. “Mason said, with admiration, that it made me a stone-cold bastard, but this girl had pushed me to a reckless burning edge I didn’t even recognize, and her calm reply only pushed me further.”

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276. “It made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin.”

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277. “We wove our dreams together like armor.”

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278. “One day hope would have a name.”

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279. “My first encounter with Rafe had been a contentious one, and not by any stretch had I been smitten the way Walther was when he saw Greta. And Rafe certainly hadn’t wooed me with sweet words the way Mikael had Pauline. But maybe that didn’t make it any less true. Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.”

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280. “Ragged clothes?” He grabbed my hand and examined it. “Chipped nails? Those aren’t enough to disguise what’s inside. You’ll always be you, Lia. You can’t run from that.”

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281. “We’re all part of a greater story too... one that transcends wind, time... even our own tears.”

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282. “You two seemed inevitable.”

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283. “Maybe some lies, maybe most of them, were lies we only told ourselves.”

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284. “I picked the Scholar’s or the Chancellor’s doors or – especially fun for me – the Timekeeper’s, resetting his clock and timepieces? That had especially angered my father, but I’d only done it hoping it would create an extra hour in his day for me.”

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285. “Sometimes you need to own one whole day. Maybe that’s what makes you brave enough to face another.”

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286. “There are many ways to feed people.”

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287. “What did they do to you, Kazi?” His voice was low, earnest. Even in the dim light, I was able to see the worry in his eyes. I pretended I didn’t know what he was talking about. “Who did what?” “Who made you afraid of an open world? An open sky? Was it Venda? Your parents?” “No one did anything,” I answered quietly. “Then hold on to me,” he said. “Let me show you the stars.”

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288. “I hated that I found him – appealing. Not just his appearance, but the confidence of his strides, the calculations in his gaze, his cockiness, his damned voice. I hated the ridiculous flip-flop my stomach did just now when I caught him looking at me.”

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289. “All ways belong to the world. What is magic but what we don’t yet understand? Like the sign of the vine and lion you carry?”

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290. “It wasn’t pain I feared, but no longer feeling it-no longer feeling anything.”

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291. “Write it down, he had told me. Write down every word once you get there, Before the truth is forgotten. And now we do, at least the parts we remember. – Greyson Ballenger, 14.”

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292. “She was radiant, her cheeks glowing with heat, her long locks shimmering in the lantern light like golden marmalade, swinging in rhythm with the zitaraes and flutes. I wished I could be her sometimes, jumping into every moment fully, her cheer covering the darkness that still lurked deep inside her.”

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293. “I can’t promise you any tomorrows. And that was all I wanted.”

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294. “Who made you afraid of an open world? An open sky?”

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295. “It doesn’t always take an army to save the world. Sometimes it takes just one person who won’t let evil win.”

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296. “You going to kill the Patrei with a spoon?” I turned my head. It was Wren, her hands planted on her hips. “Not that I don’t think you could.”

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297. “What’s wrong with getting married again? I would marry you a hundred times over. She kissed me, berry juice still on her lips. Only a hundred? she asked. A thousand times.”

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298. “His voice was warm and slow and reminded me of the gentle rumble of a distant summer storm – so inviting at a distance. And those eyes again, the ones that made me feel naked, like he saw beneath my skin. I knew I couldn’t sit down and tell him my worries, but his steadfast gaze made me want to.”

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299. “Jase promised me a lifetime with him. He promised a mountain full of trees and a family that would grow to love me again. He promised we would write our own story. And I made promises too.”

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300. “There is always a way out, Kazi. Blink last. Die tomorrow.”

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