Celia Mcmahon Quotes

#1. And you shouldn't choose to care about someone. There shouldn't be a time and a place for it. Either you do or you don't. Don't try." He looks off. "There can be falseness in trying to do something that should come naturally to people.

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#2. I can pick a liar from a lineup of thieves and slanderers: the best of the best. I was hoping you would not resist the information we need but I must ask you now to answer my question truthfully and to choose your next words wisely. What does the key open?

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#3. Everyone makes mistakes. If everyone fell into the sand after making a mistake we would never get anywhere. We'd all be washed away in the sea, lost forever. Do you understand?

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#4. I watch the back of Abel's head for a moment before opening the door. Coming to him was the right thing to do, it always was. Abel is my other half. If ever there was someone to release me of a weak heart, it would be him.

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#5. I can't. If I do, I will second guess myself and nothing would get done. I'd stay in one place. I'd let my fear get me.

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#6. I begin to cry as my walls of my resolve break down. I don't know how long I can hold on. The pain is horrid and I curl into myself wrestling with a wish to die and a wish to live. Both have their perks. Only one will release me from this agony.

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#7. Now go. Leaving quickly is the best thing you can do. Don't think about it, don't look back, and don't think that what's behind you is better than what's in front because it's not. Not in the very least, Hannah.

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#8. The road to paradise and damnation both look the same," Lord Yupos says softly. He sniffs in harshly as if trying to clear every bit of sadness from his nostrils. He looks at me now. "They are easily mistaken for the other.

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#9. Renounce," he says again and now it begins to make sense.
"No," I breathe and prop myself up on my elbows. "Never.

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#10. Since the beginning of time there was always stories like this," he replies. "As children we reveled in the dream that there was a place out there that was different from the one we lived in.

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#11. Well, you should turn your lips inside out because you're going to spend the rest of this trip talking to yourself.

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#12. Hannah", the man repeats. "Did you know the name Hannah means hope?

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#13. Don't look back, girl," Gravier yells as we ride off. "You're not going that way!

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#14. Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books.

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#15. A book, child. A book just for you, in a lost language.

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#16. Maybe I don't know him as well as I thought. Maybe I didn't know myself. Maybe my world is turning upside down and I can't find my footing.

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#17. I see my father. I see him gone away. My world is a little bit colder.

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#18. Everyone is good at heart. We all do things with the greatest of intentions and most of the time we do it for selfish reasons. Myself included.

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#19. Abel grabs my shoulders to steady me. "You can do this," he say. "I won't lie. Part of me was hoping you would abandon this but we've come this far. You're special, cousin. You're going to do great things. Just promise me that you won't love it someplace else and leave me here alone.

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#20. Haven't you noticed most of your fairy tales take place in the woods?" a man a few feet from me says. He stutters and lets a belch escape him. "That's why we're out here. We were hoping Jimmi would bring enough damsels for us all, though!

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#21. There it is again. Promises. They used to hold such high value when I was younger. Now they just bore into my heart like a knife just waiting to twist. I brush the sand from my pants.

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#22. The darkness is no place to be in times like this.

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#23. Dead. The words fall from my tongue and linger there like poison. A slow death hanging from my lips. I shake the thought away and swallow but I can still taste the remnants in the back of my throat. It's sour and I gag a little as tears swell behind my eyes.

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#24. You have such faith," he tells me. "Let it be bigger than your fears.

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#25. Fear is making my body heavy and hard to function.

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#26. It's only those who love so strongly that grieve so despairingly.

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#27. My cousin. His name is Abel. He is two years older than I. Next to my father, he is dearest to my heart.

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#28. Nd she a star, to outshine all the suns of mans days.

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#29. I lost my family," he says softly. The tone of his voice justifies my earlier regret. "If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.

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#30. There's a fine line between being truthful and being a complete jerk, I respond and with that I turn my back to the fire. I mutter an obligatory 'goodnight' before falling into sleep.

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#31. Whatever my path, I have faith I will end up where I need to be.

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#32. If you're brave enough to do something you better damn well be brave enough to accept the consequences.

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#33. Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons.

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#34. S'rato, he is my rock. Ever the same and ever lovely. He has seen death yet he remains unchanged by it all. I could take a lesson from this beast. I think we all could.

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#35. I've come to believe that we, as people, only tend to remember only certain of what we hear or read just for that reason. Most of what we retain coincide with our personal beliefs and feelings and the rest, we throw away into the back of our minds where we keep it or forget it entirely.

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#36. When I am brave enough to say goodbye
I'll use the wings you gave me
and away I'll fly

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#37. I have my own. I don't believe in religion, just as you mentioned. I think it does more harm than good. Believers see it as the one truth, non believers see it as trash and king's use it for power. Not one of them is right.

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