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“Our first job is always to survive. I won't apologize for it.”
“But if you loved a thing, the work was never done”
“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and stll it will return.”
“Don’t ask me to sacrifice the hope of the living for the comfort of the dead.”
“They would build a new world together. But first they had to burn the old one down.”
“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart.”
“No one wants to look too closely at another person's pain.”
“Everyone mourns the first blossom. Who will grieve the rest who fall?”
“Open the door. Connect your past to your future. You are strong enough to survive the fall.”
“I should have killed him when I had the chance. You showed mercy, Nina. Never regret that.”
“I know how strong you are, Nina. My death will not be the thing that defeats you.”
“Matthias, your country can kiss my fat Grisha ass.”
“Boys and girl who had always seemed nice enough until they developed a taste for others' tears.”
“You are strong enough to survive the fall”
“No mourners," she whispered, and launched herself through the broken glass.”
“If Leoni was sunshine walking, Adrik was a doleful storm cloud too put-upon to actually rain.”
“Do that thing you do where you use too many words to say something simple and confuse the issue.”
“Because you are strong enough to survive the fall.”
“Zoya of the lost city. Zoya of the broken heart. You could be so much more.”