E.K. Johnston Quotes

#1. A dragon eating a bear?" Emily said. "Why are there no Internet videos of that?

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#2. My kind do not spend their days at craft or art. Our deepest desire is not for the making of a thing, nor for the thing itself. Rather, we thrive on the skills of those who make. We steal that time and that power, and we turn it to our own souls, and that is how we grow.

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#3. I had tasted power and I had used it up, but now I would get more of another kind. We would share it, and keep each other from the dark.

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#4. If you are clever and you are good, the monster will not have you.
You should not believe everything you hear.
Good men fall to monsters everyday. Clever men are tricked by their own pride or by pretty words.

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#5. Of course, if I were dead, they could just bury me, and move on. Broken is harder to deal with.

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#6. I didn't used to overthink my choices quite so much. Then someone made what I've always been told is a very important choice for me, and now I tend to overthink everything else.

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#7. He was the soul of politeness, my husband.

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#8. There's a moment when I know that I should scream. But screaming would be hard. And blackness would be easy. Black picks me.

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#9. Maybe he is starting to understand. I don't really care, though. I do not want to be anyone's model for becoming a better person.

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#10. But I have faith in you. You seem like the type who eats fear for breakfast.

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#11. I do fear him," I said, which was close to the truth. "I fear him as I fear the desert sun and poisonous snakes. They are all part of the life I live. But the sun gives light, and snakes will feed a caravan if they are caught and cooked.

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#12. The fiery ones do not marry young" he said. "They wait for fire to match their own. I did not see that in your village." "My sister finds the fire in others," I said. "Her husband may be the quietest man at the market until he sees her. Then he will burn with a flame to match her own.

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#13. My sister is no fool and she is not tender-hearted," I said. "My sister fights for her home, and takes what risks she must. That is why I put myself before her today - why I would not let you have her. My sister burns, and she does not burn for you.

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#14. Let me get this straight...You are sending me out in a minivan whose date of manufacture predates the year of my birth, so that I can watch two dragon slayers track down enormous fire-breathing animals, in an effort to prevent me from spending time in the library?

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#15. There were tightly wound strings shivering in the air as the overture began in full.

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#16. Good men fall to monsters every day.

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#17. She chose to fight men everyday, and then fight their sons, who thought they knew better than their fathers.

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#18. If you listen long enough to the whispers, you will hear the truth. Until then, I will tell you this: the world is made safe by a woman. She bound the monster up and cast him out, and the man who was left was saved.

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#19. She gave him a smile. It felt absurdly nice to be taken care of. Maybe that was what she needed, even if she didn't need it very often.

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#20. What are you doing tonight?" he asked, as soon as I was sitting down.

"Nothing," I said. I had what most people would call a boring social life, a classical holdout in a punk rock world.

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#21. I do not want to be anyone's model for becoming a better person. "Can

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#22. Watch your world burn, light of my heart. Tomorrow we will find another one and burn that too.

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#23. If you think I'm going to apologize for being drugged and raped, you have another thing coming.

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#24. There is life, and there is living - and that is what she learned.

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#25. There was, apparently, no honor in driver's ed.

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#26. The sword fighting turned out to be quite a bit of fun, once the agony of muscle development produced actual muscles.

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#27. Our father would return to see his fairest flower gone and only the weed left for him to use as he saw fit

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#28. Most postmodernists blame the decline of the dracono-bardic tradition on the sudden and soaring popularity of the Beatles.

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#29. There is life, and there is living.

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