Top 350 Mary E. Pearson Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “It wasn’t pain I feared, but no longer feeling it-no longer feeling anything.”

— Mary E. Pearson

302. “I want to kiss you, Kazi,” he finally said, his voice a whisper. “And I want you to kiss me back. But this time I don’t want it to be because we’re only making the best of it. And I don’t want a kiss that’s for show or has any conditions. I want you to kiss me just because you want to. Because you deeply want to. No one’s watching now. You can walk away, and I won’t say a thing.”

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303. “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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304. “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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305. “Truly great leaders don’t have to chase love. It finds them.”

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

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

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

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

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310. “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.”

— Mary E. Pearson

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

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313. “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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314. “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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315. “Before that kindness, the color of his eyes hadn’t mattered.”

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316. “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.”

— Mary E. Pearson

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

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

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

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321. “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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322. “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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323. “We’d had no outside influences to come between us.”

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

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325. “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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326. “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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327. “My mother was beautiful but so very young. Too young to have me, but she did, and she loved me.”

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

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329. “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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330. “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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331. “Who will write our story Jase? We will Kazi. You and I will write our own story. And side by side, every day, that is what we do.”

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

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333. “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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334. “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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335. “Right now my only plan is to kiss my wife. And I am fairly certain not even the gods can derail that.”

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

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337. “A lifetime of question marks had hooked together in a chain and dragged her to this reality.”

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338. “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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339. “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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340. “Watch and you will find the magic.”

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341. “The world was so much safer when you only had yourself to lose.”

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342. “I can’t promise any tomorrows.”

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343. “Do not pass a rose without stopping to smell it. It is a gift that may not always be there.”

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344. “Maybe hope was mortal magic.”

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345. “Anything good in his life he had fought and scratched for, and his joy came from a deep place of understanding the lack of it.”

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

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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. “Anything else up your sleeve I should know about?” “If I told you, it wouldn’t be fun, would it?” “Should I be concerned?” “Probably.”

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349. “Love is not something you can force, It will happen or it won’t.”

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350. “I am not a tomato.”

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