Top 80 Rin Chupeco Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The Royal Sun Goddess, Heiress to the Realms of Light, Blessed of the Sun, Second of the Blood, and enemy of my people, was a blithering idiot.”

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2. “The bonds that tie us together are the same bonds preventing us from what we would sacrifice for ourselves.”

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3. “To be perfect without suffering means no change. If you know neither hurt nor hardship, then you will not know the strength they can summon within the person. What is life’s meaning if you cannot distinguish between happiness and sorrow?”

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4. “Everyone is believed to have two faces – one they show to the public and one they wear in private. The first face is their shaxsiat, or their honor. The second face is their ehteram, their dignity.”

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5. “You think in the same way men drink, Tea,” my father once said, “far too much – under the delusion it is too little.”

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6. “It’s not such a bad thing, to feel powerless sometimes. It teaches us that some situations are inevitable and that we should spend what little time we have on the company of the people that matter most. Do you understand me, Tea?”

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7. “Reality’s a lot harder than it looks.”

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8. “There is always something new to discover every day, no matter how skilled you are.”

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9. “That is the nature of grief. But to grieve means you have loved. To love opens up the possibility for grief. There cannot be one without the other.”

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10. “Never give your heartglass away to anyone. Anyone else versed in magic can do you harm with it. People will never be what you make of them, but at least your own heart stays yours and true.”

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11. “When people cut us, we are expected to do only two things: smile and bleed.”

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12. “People need someone to hate. And it’s easier to see that in others than to find it in themselves.”

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13. “The sadness eats you up sometimes, remembering what could have been, what you should have done... he had my heart and with it most of my magic. We can endure any amount of sadness for the people we love.”

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14. “If you participate only in fights where your opponent is either evenly matched of weaker – or where you have been sufficiently warmed up – then you have already lost.”

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15. “Lies are sweet to the palate, but the truth is often spat out, bitter and rancid.”

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16. “We’re chasing a dying sea under an endless sun that kills us with a thousand little cuts every day. There’ll be nothing left soon. Nothing but sand and bone.”

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17. “Sometimes people do things because they want to, and not because they make sense.”

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18. “And yet she feels no pain and watches placidly as the Smiling Man is enveloped in a mass of hair that tears him into pieces.”

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19. “A harmless lie is better than a harmful truth. Better to wield strength in an imperfect land than to be powerless in a perfect one.”

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20. “We can endure any amount of sadness for the people we love.”

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21. “Our value changes depending on how we perceive our worth.”

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22. “I am where dead children go.”

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23. “The best truths are always simple, I think. Life makes them complicated.”

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24. “I am beginning to understand that there are better things than retribution.”

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25. “I promise. And whatever happens, know I will be with you. Until the very end.”

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26. “Dinner that night is a feast of flavor. To celebrate the successful exorcism, Kagura has cooked several more dishes than the shrine’s usual, simple fare- fragrant onigiri, balls of rice soaked in green tea, with umeboshi- salty and pickled plums- as filling. There is eggplant simmered in clear soup, green beans in sesame sause, and burdock in sweet-and-sour dressing. The mood is festive.”

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27. “Lies are sweet to the palate, but the truth is often spat out, bitter and rancid. Politeness and veracity have never walked hand in hand.”

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28. “A demoness is what men call a goddess they cannot control.”

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29. “She wraps both arms around herself and shivers before turning to enter, pulling the large doors closed behind her.”

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30. “Everybody knows a killer,” I say, “even if they don’t know they do.”

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31. “Words are shapeshifters. They take different forms to suit different motivations. The word for blue can be sifted and changed until it spells red. We share similar teachings with the Faceless, but what they take and learn from those teachings are different from the messages we treasure. It is why words are important, and it is why they can be dangerous.”

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32. “Life isn’t fair, dear one. And sometimes, neither is death.”

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33. “Seventeen did not explain why she stood on that strange, graying beach, alone, with monsters’ corpses for company.”

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34. “There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces.”

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35. “The dead hide truths as well as the living.”

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36. “Sometimes it is good to remind ourselves how bitterness tastes.”

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37. “Modesty is well and good, but acknowledging improvements to one’s skill is as necessary as acknowledging improvements to one’s character.”

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38. “Sometimes you can’t help who you love or for how long.”

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39. “My grief won’t allow for comfort.”

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40. “The road to treachery and malice has always been cobbled with the intentions of those who thought to only do what was best.”

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41. “Some days will be better than others. some days you will wake up crying, his name the first to fall from your lips. Some days, you will look up at the stars in the sky from a lonely beach and know none of them look down on him. That is the nature of grief. But to grieve means you have loved. To love opens up the possibility for grief. There cannot be one without the other.”

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42. “Fifteen is an appropriate age to test for seasoning. It is not a complicated ritual, but it is an unusual rite of passage and not for the fastidious. It’s a prick of a finger. It’s five drops of blood. It’s drizzling the blood onto sinigang- a heady soup of tamarind broth, with a savory sourness enhanced by spinach and okra, tomatoes and corms, green peppers for zest. Lola Simeon prefers stewed pork, and so that was chopped into the broth, a perfect medley of lean meat and fat.”

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43. “The dead do not rest,“ she told me, “only the living believe the grave can bring you peace.”

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44. “The only sight I seem to possess nowadays is hindsight.”

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45. “You talk like a recipe exists to accustom one to death,” I said, bitter. “Oh, but there is,” she responded. “Take a girl and remove her heart. Add a touch of tragedy and a thirst for vengeance. Divide her into equal parts of grief and rage, then serve her cold.”

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46. “He is a wise man but often sad – though I have found that both frequently go hand in hand.”

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47. “When you have resigned yourself to an eternity filled with little else but longing, a few seconds is enough.”

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48. “But the world will always look different when you open your eyes to what you previously refused to see.”

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49. “Patience is the long pause between action and its consequences.”

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50. “Let me be clear: I never intended to raise my brother from his grave, though he may claim otherwise.”

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