Top 350 Mary E. Pearson Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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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302. “Or what, Jase? What are you going to do? I am your brother!” My chest heaved. “And Kazi is my wife!”

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303. “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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304. “Know your enemies as well as you know your allies. Know them better. Make their business yours.”

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305. “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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306. “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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307. “I love you Jase Ballenger, and I will for all my days.”

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

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309. “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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310. “From the weakest will come strength. From the hunted will come freedom.”

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

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

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313. “I am not a tomato.”

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

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

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

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

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

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321. “Hold on to each other because that is what will save you. Out of many you are one now. You are family. I look to our put-together family. Non want to be here any more than I do. We are all different. We argue. We wave our fists. But we hold each other too. We grow together, strong like the circle of trees in the valley.”

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322. “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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323. “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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324. “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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325. “Weakness made you a target, and I had promised myself, long ago, I would never be a target again.”

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326. “Memories are short. It is the forgetting that I fear.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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336. “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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337. “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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338. “And as high as the trees stretched, the roots reached to the foundations of the earth.”

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

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340. “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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341. “Every one of my tomorrows is yours.”

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342. “We are all stardust and memories.”

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

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344. “We. Everything was we now.”

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345. “Gold pleases men, but blood serves the gods, because in the end, your life is all you have to give.”

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

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347. “I can’t promise any tomorrows.”

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

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349. “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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350. “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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