Top 42 Heidi Heilig Quotes
#1. Nix," I said, and her name was a poem. She tilted her face up to the dawn; my lips met hers. She pressed close to me, and then there was no past, no future - only now. No her, no me. Only us.
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#2. Jealousy is nothing but a fear of being abandoned
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#3. I should have guessed Kashmir would become a nuisance. And a bad influence. But most importantly, a friend.
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#4. The treasury doesn't belong to the king, it belongs to the people." "I've tried that one before. It didn't work. If you can get arrested for taking something, it's not yours." "That's
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#5. Who would be captain?" he said. "Uh, I would." "Oh, no, no no. Guess again." "You can't mutiny, we don't have a ship yet." "I'm planning ahead." I
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#6. You're no kind of captain if you keep jumping ship.
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#8. But my father told me, and my grandmother told him, whenever you try to change something, you sacrifice something else.
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#11. You know, if I had your morals, I could solve all my problems."
He shrugged one shoulder and slipped the watch back into his pocket. "If I had your problems, I could afford to have better morals.
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#12. The age of exploration is long over, amira. Now it's the age of globalization. And once everyone agrees something is one way, all the other ways it could have been disappear." I
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#13. Every choice has a cost, Miss Song. The real question is whether or not one is willing to pay it."
"No, Blake. The real question is whether it's worth the price.
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#14. Jesus, Dad," I said as people stared. "Someone will rob you."
The captain laughed. "Yeah." He jerked his chin toward Kash. "Him.
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#15. And once everyone agrees something is one way, all the other ways it could have been disappear.
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#16. After all, you can only hold one person tight if you're holding on with both hands.
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#17. This was what I'd always wanted . . . only now I understood the meaning behind the old curse, "May your every wish be granted.
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#18. Sometimes a person has to let go of something to take hold of something else.
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#19. Don't get caught. The last thing we need is for you to go to jail."
"For treason?" he said, running a comb through his tousled hair. "We wouldn't go to jail."
"Really?"
"We'd be shot."
"You always know just what to say."
"I try to look on the bright side.
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#20. There are a lot of things that are illegal but not wrong. And probably more that are wrong, and still legal.
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#22. The moment stretched like a rack and I writhed upon it.
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#23. If wishes were fishes, aquariums would be much more terrifying.
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#24. I've always tried to resemble a brave man.
It didn't used to be so hard - and I've had so much practice pretending. After all, when you're a thief, you're always pretending not to be. The same is true when you're poor. And sometimes also when you're in love.
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#25. She is not philosophy, I am not an ethical question. I will not risk my existence to satisfy your curiosity.
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#26. That's all we can do. Live in the moment. Love in the moment.
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#28. I never knew you had such a fine eye for fabrics," I said as we continued up the street. "You should have been a tailor instead of a thief."
"I have a fine eye for all things, amira, which is why I'm a thief and not a tailor.
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#29. But even if the captain rewrites his own history, how could it affect your reality? I'm from a place you call a fairy tale, and I'm still here."
"But . . . the Vaadi Al-Maas was real once. People believed in it."
"I believe in you. Simple enough, right?" His smile was heartbreaking.
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#30. Why did the stories I knew best never end well?
But why too did I feel at home among them?
I could never give up the myths, the maps, the ship that had shaped me.
Blake's home might be paradise, but my home was the Temptation.
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#31. It was dizzying - cause and effect, round and round, stretching back to the source.
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#32. Love makes fools of us all. He has to believe it will work, because he's in love.
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#33. You might wish many things, but that doesn't mean they'll come true.
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#34. Blake . . . it's inevitable," I said, repeating the words I'd learned. "You've seen it on the horizon. You know what's coming. Paradise is always lost."
"That's a convenient turn of phrase," he said. "But paradise is never lost. Only destroyed.
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#35. Chance favors the prepared mind, and there's no mind more prepared than yours.
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#37. Who said it was thieves who know the price of everything and the value of nothing?"
"Oscar Wilde," I said. "And it's cynics, not thieves."
"Ah! That explains it, then.
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#38. Our lives are before us, not behind."
"That depends on where you're standing on the timeline.
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#39. Love isn't much of a legacy, Mr. Firas."
"I think there's none better."
"It doesn't last."
"It doesn't have to.
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#40. The laws of the jungle remind me of the laws of the street. When I came abroad, I had to learn a different set of laws. Everywhere we go there is a different set of laws. Most of them unwritten.
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#41. Had I been too selfish? I had never known my mother, but I knew my life as it had been without her: the ship, the sea, the myths, the maps . . . and, yes, Kashmir. The pain I felt at the thought of losing him - the same pain that kept me at arm's length - gave me a hint of my father's own struggle.
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#42. I glared at him. "I wish you'd stay out of my room."
"That's a funny joke, princess, when you're talking to a thief.
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