Top 91 Jennifer A. Nielsen Quotes
#1. No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be."
"Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?"
"No."
"Then you didn't even get a taste.
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#2. With a grin, I told her, I'll have more than ten minutes' notice that this battle is coming. In that way, this might be the most prepared I've ever been.
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#3. A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
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#4. The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home."
"It's better that way," I said. "It'll be easier for me, knowing my death doesn't add to anyone's pain."
"If you can't give anyone pain, then you can't give them joy either.
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#5. Sage: "Conner's held you down for so long, you've forgotten what it's like to breathe free air."
Imogen: "And you've given your life to his control forever. You'll never breathe free air again.
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#6. I can't follow behind Terrowic's horse," I protested. "The smell will be unbearable." "All horses smell the same," Kippenger replied. But I eyed Terrowic. "I wasn't talking about the horse.
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#7. Carthya's not my country," I said, reaching for the doors to leave. "Frankly, I hope Avenia Destroys it
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#8. I've got to go."
"Go where?"
"To go. I'd have just taken care of it myself, but it looks like you want to come along."
Mott cursed. "Wait for morning."
"Wish I could. I've been cursed with my mother's pea-size bladder.
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#10. Let the winds blow, lad
Let fall the deep snow.
Let the stars fall, lad
We'll answer the call.
Let the dark come, lad
Ask not where it's from.
After the fight, lad
We'll see morning's light
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#12. I can't remember a minute since we met when I haven't been in love with you.
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#13. Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.
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#14. She placed a hand on my cheek and softly kissed the other one, then whispered, Remember this moment, then, Sage, when someone of my status offered a kindness to someone of yours. Because next time we meet, if Darius is dead, I will no longer be anyone of importance.
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#15. It's better that your queen pretends to love you, because if she truly did, she would only love a lie.
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#17. You made the right choice," Roden whispered. "Though you did choose his name rather quickly.
"He has a skinny neck. He'd have died faster." (Jaron)
"That's why you chose me? Because it'll take me longer to die?"
"Yes, Roden, that's exactly why."
"Enough bickering!" (Vargan)
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#18. Yeah, you're a regular Sherlock Holmes," Riq said.
"If you mean that I'm good at gathering clues for my brilliant deductions, then I take that as a compliment!
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#19. I'm sorry, Sera. I never understood before. Not really."
"I wish you didn't have to understand now.
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#20. I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.
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#21. I realized that I couldn't expect them to think better of me that I thought of myself. So if I believed I was too young or stupid or inexperienced to be a captain, then that's all I would ever be.
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#22. Above all else, I think that you are a compulsive liar."
My laughter was tense, but sincere. "Hardly. In fact, I consider myself a compulsive truth teller. It's only that everyone else seems compelled to misunderstand me.
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#23. Avenia thinks they're battling a king. I doubt they're prepared to fight a boy who thinks childish pranks are practical strategies for war."
"Aren't they?
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#24. He's no king," I said. "Rulers aren't made just because they sit on the throne. A true king serves his people, protects them, and sees to their happiness if he can.
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#25. Darius was dead, and very soon she and I would meet as equals. But i had the feeling it wouldn't be a day she ended up celebrating
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#27. If I had to do it over again, I would not have chosen this life. Then again, I'm not sure I ever had a choice.
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#28. Our country is Germany
one country that should be reunited. We don't belong to Moscow or to the west. We belong to ourselves and I have never betrayed that. This tunnel has taken every ounce of courage we have. We're not cowards.
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#29. I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.
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#31. Her eyes scanned the dark skies. "Did it rain? Why are you all wet?"
"A nighttime bath."
"Fully dressed?"
"I'm modest.
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#32. Sal could have killed me for trying to escape the mines, but he didn't. I'd certainly given him plenty of reasons to do it before then as well. I had to help him now. The
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#33. Once Conner was dragged out of the room, I directed the musicians to play. Then, exhausted, I fell into my father's throne. No, my throne. I was king now. The reality of that was incomprehensible.
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#35. Wh-wh-what's hap-pening t-t-to me?" Dak said.
"Oh," Sera said softly. "You've just had a Remnant.
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#36. I risked my life for you. So don't you ever again disrespect the risks I took by claiming you weren't worth it!
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#37. In a crowd of a thousand boys claiming to be the prince, there would be only one with the same look of trouble in his eye.
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#38. One of the greatest kings?" My smile widened. "That's it? Why not the greatest?"
"This will only make your arrogance worse, I'm sure."
"Really? Do you think that's possible?
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#39. I'm still a king. My title isn't determined by my crown; it's in my blood.
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#40. The pirates wanted my life, Vargen wanted my country, and my regents wanted to paint rainbows over reality and claim all was well.
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#42. Any chance we can bypass the cruelest method of death and settle this over a game of cards?
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#43. How is it that you can see your enemies so clearly and never your friends?
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#44. And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them around here.
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#45. Afraid of a wooden sword?"
"Just demonstrating my skills in evading an attack. Impressed?
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#48. Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.
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#49. It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women.
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#50. Any number of hours later, Mott came with a rock that he said was as shiny as the one I'd had before. He pointed out that it was a little bigger than the other one and looked more valuable. I could have this rock. I only had to return the other one to Conner.
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#51. Fink had a full bowl and grinned at me as he sat back on the bench. "It would help if you used words like 'please' and 'thank you.'"
"Then I'll thank you to please stay out of my business.
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#52. You're such a young king. I barely remember being your age."
"Then clearly we're talking about how old you are, not how young I am.
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#53. Your pants are filthy, as if you rolled in the dirt before coming here. I would expect nothing less from the boy I remember
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#54. I follow my orders without question, as a good soldier would. You ask the same from your soldiers.'
'No, I ask them to be good people. That way if they follow my orders, I will know I am doing the right thing.
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#55. This is real, then?" Jaron's heart pounded, though he couldn't tell whether it was from sadness or fear for his future. "When you leave, I'm no longer Prince Jaron. I'll be nothing but a commoner. An orphan.
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#57. Conner answered, "Mrs. Turbeldy warned me that you have a history of running away. Where did you go?"
To the church of course. To confess my sins.
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#58. What's the point of gaining peace if it costs us our freedom? I won't trade the one for the other.
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#60. No, my lady. If I cannot look at you as an equal, i will not look at you at all
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#61. When we drew up to the soldiers, Felix told them who he was and about the griffin he was bringing in. A soldier eyed me. You have new slaves too?
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#62. Erick: "I think I may grow to hate you before this is over."
Jaron/Sage: "But you don't already and that's got to be some sort of record.
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#65. Do you laugh at me?"
He was quiet for a moment and finally the tention drained from him. "No, Jaron," he said darkly. "I curse you with every breath I exhale, but I do not laugh.
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#68. You'll address me by my title," I said sharply. "And bow until your pointed chin scrapes the floor.
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#70. There's an old saying in Avenia that goes, Just because it's calmer than a hailstorm doesn't mean it's calm.
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#71. Mincemeat!" Dak said. "Yes, Sera, you're brilliant! So am I, by the way. We're still waiting on Riq.
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#72. You wouldn't want to be king of my country," I said.
"Why is that?"
"Well, you're rather fat. I doubt you'd fit onto my throne.
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#73. How will it look to everyone at dinner if the servant who left with Amarinda fails to return?
How will it look if that servant's bandages bleed through and he drips blood on Conner's dinning table?
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#74. Tomorrow we will rejoin the war. So it's time to decide who you are. Will you be carried off by this wind coming at us, or stand and face it?
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#75. Not friends. Nor did I have any idea of how to fix things with her, if that was even possible. Conner lowered his voice and continued,
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#76. I can't do that," I said. "Who'll make sure Tobias gets back safely? He can hardly cross a road without endangering himself.
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#77. With introductions out of the way, Erick got down to the business of having abducted me.
"Why were you asking Fink about the priest?"
"I have some sins to confess," I said. "For ruining the life of the last man to kidnap me.
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#78. Nobody gives you respect in this life. You must take it, you must earn it, and then you must hold it sacred, because no matter how hard respect is to attain, it can be lost in an instant.
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#79. I will never sign anything over to you, ever, you dog-breath, rotting corpse of a king.
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#80. That brought a faint smile to my face. Then let's hope Conner chooses Roden, so that Carthya has some hope of an honerable king.
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#81. Hail His Majesty, the scourge of my life," Conner said to Roden and Tobias as he stomped up the stairs. "I fear the devils no longer, because I have the worst of them right here in my home!
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#82. You eat with your left hand. That's unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?"
"Can you do it with your left?
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#83. You stole it from the master."
"Who stole it from me. What I did simply set the universe back in order.
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#84. Kippenger suppressed a grin
I could've sworn he did. Without looking at anyone, he said, "Jargon wrote, 'You'll get nothing from me, ever, you dog-breath, rotted corpse of a king.'"
Vargas flowered at me. In return, I smiled and looked around the room, rather proud of myself for that.
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#85. Real spies don't have all the cool gadgets you see in the movies," Dak said, watching Sera struggle with the lock. "Though I sure wish we had a sonic screwdriver right about now.
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#86. As they began to tie me, I wanted to yell out, to release some of my fear that way, but I held it in. Imogen wouldn't be that far from here yet, and I didn't want her to know what was about to happen.
If it was possible to scream on the inside, though, I was, and the sound of it was deafening.
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#87. You were wrong, commander. Whatever chains you try to place on me, I will always, always, rise from them. I'm not buying my freedom, because you never owned it. But I am taking it back, for me, and for my country.
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#88. Wherever our lives lead us, one thing is certain. You and I will always be connected. You might be able to deny that, but I can't. Even I am not that good a liar.
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#89. I couldn't see much, but it somehow seemed brighter across the wall, as if the sun gave more of it's light to the west. Maybe the people there were more selfish, I thought. Because we needed that sunlight far more than they did.
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#90. Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.
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#91. You should thank me for tolerating you. I had hoped that becoming a royal would cure your foul manners."
"That's interesting. My father hoped that stripping me of royalty would do the same thing.
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