Top 70 Natasha Ngan Quotes (2024 Update)

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

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

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4. “Burn bright, my brave daughter.”

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

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6. “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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7. “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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8. “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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9. “I don’t want an easy life. I want a meaningful one.”

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10. “The way they sat side by side many nights on the back porch, in silence but somehow making the air feel full of words.”

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11. “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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12. “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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13. “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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14. “I know what it means to dream about the past. To dream about the things you have loved, and lost.”

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15. “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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16. “A night of smoke and flames, the palace destroyed from the inside out by a girl with fire in her veins.”

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

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

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

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21. “Honor is in family, in hard work and care and love, in a small life well lived.”

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

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

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24. “Being vulnerable isn’t a flaw. It is the most beautiful thing in the world. If you were invincible, being brave would be easy.”

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25. “Everyone’s assumption is for women and men to be together, and yet here we are, human girls, the Demon King’s concubines. Surely love between two women wouldn’t be so strange?”

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26. “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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27. “Like faith or hope, love isn’t a substance we can take in our hands and hold out to someone and say ‘look, I told you it was real.’ It exists, purely within our own hearts. If anything, that makes it all the more powerful. If we could measure it, set it out on a platter for weighing, it make so many things easier.”

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28. “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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29. “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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30. “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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31. “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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32. “We have a new goal now, Wren. One we can share the burden of together.”

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33. “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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34. “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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35. “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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36. “Winning a war is the easy part. All it takes is brawn. Maintaining your rule afterward is the real test.”

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37. “Yes. You were the one to tell me about the two girls being lovers, after all. If you hadn’t, I wouldn’t have been prepared for their second betrayal. Perhaps I would have ended up being even more hurt.”

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

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39. “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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40. “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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41. “I recall how black and white the world seemed at eleven. How clear-cut life was, everything divided into good and bad, right and wrong, like two sides of a coin.”

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42. “You would think seven years would have dulled my wounds. But they still burn inside me, a fire too bright to extinguish.”

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43. “Remember, even that which seems impossible at first can be overcome by strength of mind and heart.”

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44. “Wren, in her sleeping robe, standing close to a tall wolf demon, her head craned back to face him. The wolf: Moon caste, marbled ash-gray fur flowing silkily over angular features, a diamond-shaped patch of white on his long, muzzlelike jaw. He’s dressed in soldier’s clothes. One pawed hand is lifted to cup Wren’s face, like the beginning of a kiss.”

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45. “I like to think that there’s some good behind even the darkest sins. That death can be warranted if it paves the way for hope.”

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46. “But if there’s one thing, palace life has taught me, it’s how to follow orders. Even if you’re raging against them.”

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47. “No matter how brave I might try to seem, really the heart that beats within my rib cage is weak and broken and scared, and I am just a human girl kneeling before a demon king.”

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

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49. “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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50. “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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