Emma Raveling Quotes

#1. In a world of prophecy and war, where so much of my life followed a path laid out by duty and destiny,Tristan had enough strength to give me what no one else could. The one precious thing I needed the most. A choice.

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#2. To be ready does not mean it will be easy. It doesn't mean it will be smooth. It means that even when it's difficult, you have what it takes to survive.

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#3. The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.

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#4. Mortals search for what they are unable to give, what they lack within themselves.

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#5. I could stand alone because I knew I was not alone.

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#6. Fast food, fast money, shallow thinking, shallow interpretations. This is now what I deal with everyday. Art was meant to be about freedom, about having the courage to explore what it means to be human.

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#7. Finding what's true means letting go of the lies that control.

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#8. Some deaths were long, the decay so gradual the rotted end was nothing more than a sigh disappearing in the wind.
Others were quick, the abrupt cut of a life in mid-phrase leaving unanswered questions lingering like an unresolved harmony.

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#9. In music, she'd found a perfect language, a way of expressing the inexpressible.

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#10. The flower drifted, light and open, gliding a path through still water like the faint stirrings of a dream.

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#11. The ground shifted again into an ocean of unknowns, a dark current yanking at a fundamental law she'd forgotten: there was no truth without a lie.

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#12. Endings do not exist. There are only choices leading to other paths.

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#13. What happened to your face?"
"Dentist."
"They're all con artists.

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#14. Emotions are powerful sources of energy. They are what makes us alive. They provide proof of our souls.

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#15. He can't give you a future."
"I know. Because I make my own future.

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#16. We all choose, Kendra. In the end, we can only hope we've chosen wisely. Regret is a horrible monster to flee from.

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#17. Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were.
To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.
Because in that journey was where truth resided.
Love wasn't about being held. It was about being freed.

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#18. Not where. When." The Elemental brand on my chest pulses, his rumbling voice tugging at the thread of old magic. "It is the start of another day.

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#19. An artist's domain was private, a haven for practicing and experimenting, the one place where failure was still allowed.

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#20. I walked forward simply because there was no going back.

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#21. I resented the reference to my super ninja moves as "sneaking around." "Displaying superior stealth" or "using viper-like reflexes" would have been much better

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#22. Perfect beauty could be so ugly.

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#23. I want you to find what you seek, live the way you choose," he whispered. "Even if it means I can never touch you again. I will never abandon you because I love you.

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#24. Our dreams are fluid, just as we are. They change as we change.

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#25. Sometimes we think we're losing something when we're really finding something else.

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#26. He looked at me, dark, silky locks falling forward, naked and beautiful and so much more than anything I could've ever dreamed.

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#27. I'd spent my life searching for something I couldn't name.
And as I drowned in the torrential flow of conflicting desires, caught in the relentless roar of water, earth, blood, and war, I reached out - wildly, desperately - and found it with him.

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