Top 350 Mary E. Pearson Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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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302. “Truly great leaders don’t have to chase love. It finds them.”

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303. “For everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.”

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304. “Hear the language that isn’t spoken, Kazi, the breaths, the pauses, the fisted hands, the vacant stares, the twitches and tears, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them. ” – Pg 207.”

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

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306. “He was a man, not a monster, as you imagine. He died the way all men die, one breath at a time.”

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

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309. “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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310. “She never promised me tomorrows, and now I knew why.”

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311. “We’d had no outside influences to come between us.”

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312. “My own feelings had become a thorny riddle for which I had no answer.”

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313. “Where’s Priya?” I asked. “She’s coming. Unsaddling the horses. She lost the bet.” “Bet?” I said. “Who would take down the first soldier.” “You had time for bets?” my mother snapped.”

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314. “Even justice couldn’t erase scars – it only delivered on a promise to the living that evil would not go unpunished.”

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315. “My mother was beautiful but so very young. Too young to have me, but she did, and she loved me.”

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316. “She whirled and saw her cohorts at the end of the walk. Mason held the one with long red braids by the arm.”

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317. “I felt myself falling deeper into the world that was Jase Ballenger. “Never. Not a thousand tomorrow’s could I ever be sorry. Trouble with you makes me glad for it. I love you with every breath I will ever breathe. I love you Jase.” “More than an orange?” he asked between kisses. “Let’s not get carried away, Patrei.”

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318. “And why would you care if I was breathing?” “I was chained to you.” The hard reality. “Oh, right,” I answered, feeling slightly deflated. “No fun being attached to a corpse. Dead weight and all.” “I also knew you might be useful. I’d seen your quick – ” He paused as if he regretted the admission, so I finished his thought for him. “Takedown? When I nailed you against the wall back in Hell’s Mouth?” “Yes.” At least there was some degree of honesty in him.”

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319. “I love you Jase Ballenger, and I will for all my days.”

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320. “Rahtan, Ten, Shadowmaker, no title you hold is going to make me change my mind on this one,′ he had growled to me under his breath as we got our gear together. ‘And only today does an ambassador trump a Patrei,’ he added, and then kissed me, long and hard. ‘We’ll see about that, pretty boy,’ I whispered back to him.”

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321. “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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322. “We are easily seduced. It’s magic lures us, and we are it’s willing victims.”

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323. “A war raged inside her, one she held back, biting it off like a poisonous snake with disturbing self-control.”

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324. “A family’s not a puzzle with a set number of pieces. It’s more like a well – the fuller, the better.”

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325. “I felt her tongue on mine, the warmth of her lips, breathed in the scent of her skin and hair, and we were in the wilderness again, and nothing else mattered.”

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326. “Weakness made you a target, and I had promised myself, long ago, I would never be a target again.”

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327. “I hated how easily innocence could be robbed – how quickly a child could go from plucking wish stalks at a pond’s edge to clutching stolen bread beneath a coat.”

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328. “I am choosing my own destiny now – not a book, nor a man or a kingdom.”

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329. “It had been odd to envy their grief, but I had. I envied the explosion and finality of it – their sobs and tears... Her passing came slowly, over months and years, in the dull bits, pieces, and mundane hours that I worked to stay alive... The memories of her became disconnected blurred images, warm hands cupping my cheeks, a tuneless hum as she worked, words that floated in the air, her finger pressed to my lips.”

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330. “You are the love I didn’t know I needed.”

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331. “Once upon a time, long long ago, before monsters roamed the earth, all the stars hung quietly in the sky, and great cities of wonder and light reached up to meet them.”

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332. “And as high as the trees stretched, the roots reached to the foundations of the earth.”

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333. “Sometimes the smallest animal inflicts the greatest pain.”

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334. “A simple chain we had both cursed had done the unthinkable – it forced us to see the world through each other’s eyes.”

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335. “Every one of my tomorrows is yours.”

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336. “We are all stardust and memories.”

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337. “We. Everything was we now.”

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338. “Watch and you will find the magic.”

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339. “I can’t promise any tomorrows.”

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340. “I needed her to know with certainty my feelings for her – before I told her that the man who took her mother worked for us.”

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341. “But I had loved and been loved deeply and completely, not once but twice. I would not trade that for all the riches that Montegue had to offer.”

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342. “Dragons eventually wake and crawl from their dark dens.”

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343. “From the weakest will come strength. From the hunted will come freedom.”

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344. “Maybe that’s what makes you brave enough to face another.”

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345. “He could silence the devil with a whisper.”

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346. “I am not a tomato.”

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347. “We. Everything was we now. We wove our dreams together like armor. Nothing could stop us now.”

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348. “I love you, Jase. No matter what happens ahead. I want those to be the last words you hear from me. I love you.”

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349. “Before that kindness, the color of his eyes hadn’t mattered.”

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350. “But everything about us didn’t just feel right, it felt like something rare, something delicate that I was afraid of breaking. Something that only comes along once in a lifetime.”

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