Top 70 Natasha Ngan Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “They can take and steal and break all they want, but there is one thing they have no control over. Our emotions. Our feelings. Our thoughts. None of them will ever be able to control the way we feel. Our minds and our hearts are our own. That is our power.”

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2. “But there is one thing that is infinite: greed. The ability of humans and demons to want. To desire. To hunger after things that don’t belong to them.”

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3. “Burn bright, my brave daughter.”

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4. “But time has a way of folding itself, like a map, distances and journeys and hours and minutes tucked neatly away to leave just the realness of the before and the now, as close as hands pressed on the either side of a rice-paper door.”

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5. “I keep my promises, Lei. Whatever they might cost me.”

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6. “Does darkness not follow light, and light follow darkness, neither one truly ahead of the other?”

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7. “She looks so astonishing it’s almost unreal, as though she’d slipped out of a painting perfectly formed, a thing of beauty, of art – of bright, vivid life in this cold, still place.”

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8. “She is my air. My shelter. Wren is my wings.”

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9. “But my love, that isn’t all you are. Your blood and upbringing aren’t everything. You make your own power. You are your own strength.”

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10. “Wren and I might not be Paper Girls anymore, but we are still capable of creating fire. And now we have a whole world to burn.”

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11. “We might be Paper Girls, easily torn and written upon. The very title we’re given suggests that we are blank, waiting to be filled. But what the Demon King and his court do not understand is that paper is flammable.”

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12. “When a place holds power over you, it looms large. And once that power is stripped away, it appears how it really is. Just a room, or a courtyard, or a house, or a palace. Walls and floorboards and gates and archways. Building blocks. Pieces of a place, but not the heart of them.”

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13. “I was a girl with fire in her veins.”

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14. “There is nothing stronger than people who endure the worst hardships in the world and still raise their fists at the start of a new day to fight all over again.”

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15. “It doesn’t matter how beautiful the cage is. It’s still a prison.”

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16. “Fire. So much fire. Fire so hot it burns even ice to ashes. Fire like a wave to swallow the world whole. Fire from within her. Fire that sears skin and all she touches. Fire bright enough to blind those who look at her. Red flames in the palace. Red flames, kindled from within. On the night of fire, more will come to scorch him.”

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17. “I am still that girl of paper and fire – and I’m going to prove it to them.”

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18. “Yet like most lies people tell themselves, it came apart in the shadow and quiet of the night.”

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19. “Why was it truth hurt more than lies? She supposed there was at least comfort in lies. Truth forced you to stare at yourself in the mirror, bare in every sense of the word, and acknowledge the person looking back at you as your own doing. Truth always caught you in the end, and it was merciless.”

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20. “Why help me? I’m... I’m Paper.” The fox-boy turns back to the door. “So?” he answers. “You need the help more than anyone.”

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21. “Storytelling is a wonderful kind of magic, don’t you think? It is how we keep people alive in our hearts long after they are gone.”

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22. “I don’t want an easy life. I want a meaningful one.”

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23. “Hold on to that as tightly as you can, Lei. Because war will do everything it can to take goodness from you. I think sometimes people forget there will be time after all of this-for the lucky ones, at least. And when that time comes, we’ll all have to live with what we have done.”

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24. “It’s easier to be strong when you’re doing it for someone else’s sake.”

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25. “Instead of disappearing, she makes me feel reappeared. Reimagined. Her touch shapes me, draws out the boldness that had been hiding in my core.”

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26. “Fear is good. It means you care. And caring is its own kind of magic. One just as powerful as any dao I can weave.”

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27. “Her kisses heal the parts of me that the King broke. They tell me: You are strong, Lei. You are beautiful. You are mine. And always, most important: You are yours.”

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28. “When has Ikhara ever been safe for girls like us?”

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29. “Over my head, a flock of birds wheel noisily, wingtips kissing the sky. Their freedom pierces me. What would happen if I just took off right now? Chased after them, danced in the midnight shadow of their bodies so high above, and we could be mirrors, echoes, them in the air and me on the ground.”

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30. “We have a new goal now, Wren. One we can share the burden of together.”

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31. “I’m not spending the rest of my life as a prisoner.”

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32. “She looks far more like Ketai’s Moonchosen than I ever could be.”

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33. “Please don’t lie,” Wren says. Her fingers brush mine before she moves away, adding quietly, and low, “Not about that. Not to me.”

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34. “How painful it is to say good-bye to someone who has no idea you are leaving.”

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35. “Our lives here are defined by others, every decision made for us, every turn of fate pushed by the hands of others. But you stood up and said no.”

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36. “Because this is what I am. Not a Paper Girl anymore, just “girl.” Almost, as I told Lady Dunya, a caste of its own. An oppressed caste, yes, but one braver and bolder and capable of more brilliance than any other in this world.”

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37. “Falling in love is the most dangerous thing women like us can do.”

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38. “Light in, darkness out.”

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39. “They can take and steal and break all they want, but there is one thing they have no control over. Our emotions. Our feelings. Our thoughts... Our minds and hearts are our own. That is our power, Nine. Never forget it.”

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40. “The King is Zhokka, swallowing everything. And Wren is Ahla – the moon, the light, the only one who knows how to bring the stars back to my sky.”

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41. “Dreamed of starlit nights of adventures and a world outside the village and a love so bold it sets my heart alight.”

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42. “Where the King’s touch closed me, shut me down, Wren’s opens me up.”

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43. “No matter how bad things got, no matter how hopeless or terrible, Bo’s laughter was there to protect us. To shield us from the darkness, even if just for a moment. That’s what his laughter was – a weapon.”

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44. “I know what it means to dream about the past. To dream about the things you have loved, and lost.”

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45. “It is easy to spot a coward. Shall I teach you how? A coward is the one who uses force when a gentler hand would be more effective. He is the one who lets his nation suffer while he bathes in their blood. The one who hides within walls while sending others to die for him. Who dresses in armor and masks, thinking it will intimidate his enemies when it only proves how fearful he really is.”

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46. “Perhaps being a traitor can be a good thing if you are betraying those who deserve it.”

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47. “You might be human, but you’re a woman, and that gives you far more strength than he’ll ever be capable of. Not to mention perspective. Only women truly understand the cruelties of the world, the depths of people’s greed and desire, what dark things they can motivate someone to do.”

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48. “Imagine as you do that the air you take in is bright and golden, as lovely and light as your eyes.”

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49. “Because if this is to be my fate, I’m going to walk boldly into it on my own two feet.”

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50. “Despite Lei’s size, Kenzo had been struck most by the fierce determination blazing off the girl. It had been electric, charging the air like the moment before a lightning strike. She was a Paper Girl set on fire. He’d never been prouder of her.”

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