The Priory of the Orange Tree
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“Sea sisters, Susa had called them once. Two pearls formed in the same oyster.”
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“girls, it seemed, were just like magpies.”
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“His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers.”
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“I imagined, too. And so imagination became my nemesis; my mind created monsters out of nothing.”
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“I have a wont for choosing hearts... to which another holds the key.”
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“Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent.”
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“Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.”
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“That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.”
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“Joke are the declaration of fools”
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“The guards came after her. They hunted a ghost, for Ead Duryan was no more.”
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“And I waited for the sun to rise - as it always had, like a song from the night.”
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“A great wave washed at your feet and dark wings lifted you away.”
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“Margret,” he said, “you are my child. I forgave you all your sins on the first day of your life.”
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“Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.”
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“Black doves and white crows flew to her, for she was mother to the outcasts.”
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“You helped set me on this path, don't you ever tell me how to walk it”
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“I have committed myself to developing your gift — but for you, Paige. Not for her.”
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“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”
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“It is not that I do not want you. Only that I might want you too much. And for too long”
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“Bloody, sh*tting f*ck!' 'It sounds as if she is alive' said Warden”
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“Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story.”
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“Jaxon had been right about words. They could grant wings, or they could tear them away”
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“But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.”
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“Let us not think of the future this night. It is not yet dawn. We still have time for airy hopes.”
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“Elder Vara had managed, of course. The world could end and he would find a way to keep on reading.”
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