Caragh M. O'Brien Quotes

#1. You always have a choice, Gaia. You can always say no." His voice was strangely hollow. "They might kill you for it, but you can always say no.

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#2. I guess that blows your theory, Paige. Niceness trumps art.

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#3. She pivoted right, and sensed the vast, open space of the wasteland stretching before her under the opaque sky, a darkness as thin and final as the velvet lining of a shroud (360-361).

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#4. Home was more about people than a place.

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#5. You look like a decent young man."
Leon didn't smile. "I'm not.

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#6. Dream hard. Work harder. Shine.

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#7. There"s nothing left between us at all, is there?" she asked.
For a long moment he said nothing, and the pebbles made a clicking noise in his fingers.
Then, as if it gave him no pleasure at all, he replied.
"Whose fault is that?

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#8. I don't believe in worry. It doesn't change the outcome, but it make the now miserable, so I don't do it.

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#9. Though she could not see his shadowed eyes clearly, she sensed an emptiness in there that matched the controlled composure of his other features. It chilled her.

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#10. Be good, Gaia," Capt. Grey told her, his voice grave. She still refused to look at him, but she could feel the heated flush of anger again in her cheeks. "Cooperate with the guards. For your own sake," he continued.
"Be good yourself, Captain," she said bitterly. "If you know how.

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#11. I'd take Gaia," Leon said

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#12. My homesickness wasn't truly for home, I realized. It was for something more elusive. A silent, low-grade, unnamed yearning persisted inside me. It was always there, a reaching feeling that grew stronger when I was alone and listened for it. The rain understood what it was.

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#13. You make me sound like some kind of moral freak."
The Matrarc's eyebrows lifted slightly. "Isn't that what you are?

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#14. The tinkle of a wind chime stirred from over a window. Purple and white phlox cascaded cheerfully over the top of a nearby stone wall. Sunlight sifted through the weave of her straw hat, casting freckles of light on her nose and cheeks that shifted, out of focus, as she walked.

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#15. Every tiny, happy thing makes me want to share it with you," he went on, leaning forward. "I thought I would get over this, but I can't, and I'm done trying. I understand you like no one else here ever can."
-Leon Grey

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#16. Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable.

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#17. As she walked through the dark, stepping softly through the wet stones, she looked ahead to where the first cautious star managed to blink through the clouds (361).

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#18. Being brave alone does not make us smart.

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#19. Stalking's when you follow the person and won't leave them alone. Waiting is different. It's a form of tribute, like a vigil, and fate rewards it.

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#20. It hurts to love someone this much. I feel each place where our minds meet, and each little place were they don't, until we talk things over and line up again ... I've never had anything like this with anyone else. Now I'm never fully happy anymore unless you're with me.

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#21. She'd heard of love triangles before, but a love square?

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#22. It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's right between us, always.

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#23. And for once, she was happy. Very.

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#24. There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.

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#25. She waited, unwilling to meet his eyes, hoping he would go on. When he didn't, the silence stretched between them like invisible cobwebs. In the dimmest part of her, she realized she might have wishes, too, elusive wishes that belonged more to a girl in a garden than they did to a captive.

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#26. I can be loyal, Leon. I know what that is."
He laughed. "Finally, the girl gives me a crumb

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#27. I don't know what I'd do without you, Leon.
And there it was. That unlocking inside him. That thing only she could do to him. That was why he had come. Why he would always come.
Marry me, he thought.

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#28. When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it.

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#29. There are some things, once they are done, that we can never question, because if we did, we wouldn't be able to go on. And we have to go on, every single day.

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#30. Love is for happy people, not me.

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#31. What boy could resist you?"
"Will's hardly a boy."
"Don't give me that. He's a boy playing a game," Norris said. "The oldest game there is.

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