Heather Anastasiu Quotes

#1. I think it's contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It's quieter than excitement, but, [ ... ] maybe it's better.

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#2. We're fighting for a dream, for a life unlike anything we've ever known.

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#3. Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

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#4. Having something to fight for will make us stronger than anything they can throw at us.

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#5. Sacrifice for a worthy cause means something. It's the best of what makes us human.

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#6. There was something else I couldn't quite define
something that made me uneasy. We were a wrong fit, like unmatching puzzle pieces.

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#7. You've felt it, haven't you? Those feelings that seem to get so big in your chest, like something is so beautiful it aches?

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#8. She is not the princess locked away in the fortress and you are not some hero who's going to save her.

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#9. Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.

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#10. I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

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#11. History isn't all fact
it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

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#12. It means that two people start loving each other. I guess because it can feel really sudden and because it's powerful. Like gravity
an unstoppable force.

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#13. That you exist this way, Zoe, you're the ultimate proof that we can be so much more than just the sum of our parts and knee-jerk impulses. Something about you just could not be controlled, just had to be free.

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#14. His lips ever so gently touched mine, and suddenly I felt everything stirring inside me grow wings, let loose, and fly.

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#15. If we don't fight, we've already lost. Without hope, without trying, there's no point.

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#16. I loved you before I even knew the name for it. Everyday I'd sit beside you, inhaling your scent, looking at your beautiful face. Every night, dreaming about you. You eclipsed everything else. It was you. Always you.

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#17. He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath.

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#18. Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.

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#19. We have to believe that forgiveness is still possible even if those we committed crimes against will not forgive us. It means what matters most is how we live now. It's what redemption is all about.

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#20. If we can learn to love one another and lift each other up, then we will not fall, no matter the assault the enemy might bring.

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