Top 100 Jessica Khoury Quotes
#1. I may as well shackle my wrist to a bolt of lightning as attach myself to a mortal.
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#2. But my heart is a treacherous star, refusing to dim when the sun rises
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#4. My imagination is the most powerful muscle I possess.
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#5. Wishes are born in the will of men and women, and it is the true and pure source of power all humans hold.
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#6. I asked her why my father resisted the guards when they always won in the end. Why didn't he just save himself the pain and pay them what they wanted? She told me that sometimes, you can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. That's why my father fought back.
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#8. Mm!" Joey rubbed his stomach. "I love me some root juice in the morning. Enlivens the senses!
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#9. All I wanted was peace between our peoples. But I see now that this is not possible, for my people are ruled by a dreamer, and the jinn are rules by a monster.
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#10. To have thought that, with the right tests and the right lectures, I could be made into a cold-blooded, heartless killer. To have thought that I could ignore the beating of my own heart long enough to stop the beating of another's.
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#11. The universe sings a deep, eternal song, sound in waves, in deep sighs, in whispers, in swirling chords and rising, falling tones. The music of the worlds, weaving in a pattern that is both chaos and order, both beauty and terror, without beginning, without end.
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#12. As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.
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#13. You insist you're a monster because you're afraid of being human.
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#14. Because, well, you're not immortal anymore. At least as far as we know; just because you can bleed doesn't mean you'll grow old and die. Maybe you won't."
"How can we know?"
"There's only one way to find out."
"What?"
He smiles. "You'll just have to live.
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#15. Do not say such things," said the Queen. "We have today and yesterday, and we will seize tomorrow. We will have all the time in the world if we are clever enough to take it.
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#16. I know plenty of dances. My favorite is called Not Getting Your Legs Broken for Stealing Figs from That Baker on Pearl Lane." "That's sure to charm the princess right into a wedding pact.
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#17. Keep your eye on the goal, not the steps you must take to reach it. The goal is everything. The steps are nothing. No matter how difficult the journey is, the goal is always worth it.
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#18. And once I am free to run, not even the shadows of the past will be able to catch me.
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#19. There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.
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#20. I can't let the killing go on. No more death, not because of me. This is the only way. You and I both know it. Eio.
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#21. She sobbed into her hands, tears winding down her arms and dripping onto her knees. We all stared uncomfortably at our shoes, the ground, anything except Avani.
I felt someone should say something, so I said gingerly, You probably shouldn't cry. You need to conserve your water.
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#22. It's too hot out here. Let's go inside. I'll teach you how to properly enter a room based on who is already there, and whether they are sitting, standing, or eating." Aladdin groans. "I'm sick of playing prince. Let's pick pockets.
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#23. You're beautiful and wild and kind, and I can't stop thinking about you." A sunny, foolish smile breaks across his face. "It's wrong and stupid and wonderful, Zahra. I didn't mean for it to happen, but here I am. I love you.
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#24. If it's a monster they want, then a monster they shall have.
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#25. Use your wish," I whisper to Aladdin, opening my eyes. "Please."
"If I do," he replies softly, "I'll lose you.
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#26. Because happiness itself is a mythical construct, a dream you humans tell yourselves to get through each day. It is the moon, and you, like the sun, pursue it relentlessly, chasing it around and around, getting nowhere.
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#27. Remember, Pia," he whispers. "Perfect is as perfect does.
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#28. And what do you know of love?"
"That it must be a choice."
"Oh, my naive thief. " I pause briefly to meet his gaze. "Love is rarely a choice.
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#29. Maybe reason is neater and more orderly, but nonsense is freeing.
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#30. Cruelty, I understand. But kindness frightens me, for my defenses are weak against it. ~Zahra
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#31. You can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. ~Aladdin
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#32. Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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#33. It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.
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#34. Homo ferus: wild human. An unpredictable, nocturnal creature usually found in trees. Caution: may cause bewilderment and disorientation. Also, prone to teasing.
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#35. There is only one thing more numerous than the stars," I say, looking up to the heavens. "And that is the darkness that holds them.
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#36. And what does he want?" I turn and face the serving girl. "The same thing we all want. He just won't admit it." I see longing in her eyes, and also anger, when she looks at Aladdin. "Freedom from the past." I
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#37. Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Everyone always blames the monster
but no one ever blames the one who created it. Isn't that right?" He sneered at Moira's limp form. "Tell me, who is the monster? The creation or the creator? It has to start somewhere.
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#38. A kind of childlike purity to her repose that made the thought of kissing her seem vile.
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#39. You won't tell?"
"I'll add it to the box under my bed labeled 'The Secret Confession of the Immortal Pia'. Good Lord, girl, don't look so mortified. There's not actually a box.
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#40. May you carry the weight of this betrayal to your grave.
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#41. Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze.
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#42. ...there is a somewhere else after this, where everyone drinks elysia and lives forever.
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#43. No! Aguaje is for girls. If a man eats to much of it, he starts to look like a woman.
That is the most unscientific thing I've ever heard.
Then you haven't met my cousin Jacari. Too much aguaje. Now the mothers use him as wet nurse.
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#44. That your eyes are like bits of sky seen through the leaves. And that, like the rain washes the mud from the leaves, you ... how did he say it? Oh yes. That you wash the darkness from the world.
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#45. A chicken doesn't fly like other birds, but it is still a bird.
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#46. If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together?
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#47. We are adrift on a sea of moonlight sand, the silence as infinite as the space between the stars.
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#48. The will of this boy thief flows in golden streams. It is the thread with which I weave, the colors with which I paint, the element with which I create.
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#50. Every glance, every touch, every whisper between us has been a pebble added to the scales, tipping me toward a new direction.
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#51. Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.
Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity.
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#52. Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition, am I right?" ~Darian
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#53. The answer cannot be found. That should be my new life motto.
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#54. "All I wanted," said the Queen, "was peace between our peoples. But I see now that this is not possible, for my people are ruled by a dreamer, and the jinn are ruled by a monster."
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#55. WHERE IS MY SON?" Uncle Antonio bellows, levelling the two AK-47s he's holding at the lot of us. "Get away from him, you bastards!
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#56. It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it.
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#58. Goodbye, Zahra," says the princess, and she pulls her arm back, preparing to throw the lamp.
"Do it, Princess," says a voice, "and I will tear your head from your shoulders.
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#59. The things that were once sweet to me are now bitter. The sun is not half so bright. The stars seem dimmer. All this wealth and luxury feels meaningless. All the world is in your shadow, Zahra. I cannot help but see you when I close my eyes.
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#60. He is the sun, and I am the moon. We must stay apart or the world will be thrown out of balance.
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#61. You're very pretty," he murmurs, his voice thick with sleep, "for a jinni." "Have you met many jinn?" "No." His lips curl into a dazed grin. "But I've met a lot of pretty girls.
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#62. How many have died that I might live?
And who has died that I might live?
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#63. Her mind drew him in, hid his image at its center, folded over him, the world slid into place, the chaos ceased.
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#64. Because you are young and free and one with the jungle. You are mortal, but instead of clinging to the hope of immortality, you embrace each day, one at a time, and never worry about tomorrow.
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#65. Do you know the Ai'oan word for heart? he asks.
I shake my head.
"It's py'a." We're so close, his whisper is right in my ear, and his breath warms the side of my neck. "You are my heart, Pia.
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#66. Even a thief may have honor, and even a jinni may have a heart.
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#67. We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.
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#68. The price of every lie is that the truth will always come out.
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#70. Love is a path lined with roses." I say bitterly. "But it leads to a cliff's edge and all who follow it tumble to their doom. You will not find your happiness there.
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#71. I think of the five generations it will take before [Mr. Perfect]'s born, and I want to scream. I want someone now. I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them.
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#72. This has been the great lesson of my long life: To love is to destroy.
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#73. I am the weed cast out of the rose garden. I am the crow chased out of the dovecote.
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#74. Have I told you I love you?" he whispers.
I smile. "Not since this morning."
"Unforgivable. I will tell you every hour of every day.
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#75. There's just one rule, just one basic law that everyone lives under : take control or be controlled.
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#76. The way he looks at me- steady and silent, bold and bright - makes me feel as if the storm outside were trapped inside me, thunder and rain and light, rolling and crashing.
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#77. He is nothing. I tell myself this, so that I will not hope for him. I am not allowed to hope. I am a forbidden wish of my own.
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#78. I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them.
-Pia
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#79. It slowly dawns on me what it is, the sensation that has bridged the gap between how I saw the world yesterday and how I see it today. It compensates for my lost keenness and even makes everything around me a little brighter.
Hope.
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#80. We ... do things a lot differently, yes, but in many ways we are just the same as you ... We eat, we sleep, we breathe. We smile when we're happy, and we cry when we're sad. When we swim, we must come up for air. When we work all day, our backs get sore. When we get cut, we bleed.
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#81. Nothing is worth betraying someone you love. ~Aladdin
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#83. Some people never changed, could always be depended on to be exactly the way they should.
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#84. He alone can meet my eyes without disgust or fear. He alone still sees the girl inside the monster. But it is not enough.
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#85. Less a point on a map and more a region of the soul, but it is a path I can follow.
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#86. She said, 'People are like stars, but it's stories that turn us into constellations. If we don't tell our stories, we burn alone in the dark.
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#87. I've been chased, shot, cut, beaten, and dragged a hundred leagues in the blink of an eye. I need a drink.
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#88. You're a - you're a - "
Say it, boy. Demon of fire. Monster of smoke. Devil of sand and ash. Servant of Nardukha, Daughter of Ambadya, the Nameless, the Faceless, the Limitless. Slave of the Lamp. Jinni.
". . . a girl!" he finishes.
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#89. I have no form, I have no name. I am the Slave of the Lamp, and your will is my will. Your wishes are my commands." ~Zahra
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#90. She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.
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#91. I should have known better than to open myself to such inevitable pain. When did I forget to stay aloof and unattached? When did I let my armor soften, leaving me vulnerable? This is what I get for playing human. The
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#92. You've ruled before, so tell me, does it get easier?"
"No, but you get stronger.
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#93. Love makes you weak. It distracts you from the important things. It can make you lose sight of the objective.
-Uncle Paolo
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#95. For the last few centuries, these jeweled fruits have been my constant and sole companions. The greatest treasure in all the world, as comfortless as light to the blind.
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#96. Because when you love someone, that's what you do - you get involved.
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#97. Who knows that each day is not a gift but a prize that is to be seized
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#98. A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.
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#99. If you're not free to love, your're not free at all.
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#100. You mean you want me to throw rocks at a bunch of monkeys in a tree in order to compete for food and prove that I, man, am the superior species? Chica," he said, clicking his tongue, "I've been waiting for an opportunity like this my whole life.
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