Top 94 Moira Young Quotes
#1. I'm gonna hafta kiss you, Jack, I says.
I wish you would, he says.
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#2. It's always bin a bloody world, she says. Only nowadays, some people's blood is better than others.
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#3. He looked to the sky for answers. I look at what's in front of me, what's around me, what's inside of me.
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#4. Be careful, Angel, he says. When you stare at a man like that, he's likely to git any number of number of ... innerestin ideas.
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#5. We have a destiny, he says. Together, Saba. We're born to command, not obey.
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#6. Feeling sorrow is fine, he says. It's right. But you need to use those feelings, channel them into action. Just as you did with your brother. You have such strength, such courage, such power within you.
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#7. They call me the Angel of Death.
That's because I ain't never lost a fight.
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#8. You look at me with them eyes of yers, an I look at yer lips ... an all I can think about is what it'ud be like to kiss you.
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#9. Yer in my blood, Saba, he says. Yer in my head. Yer in my breath, yer in my bones ... gawd help me, yer everywhere. You have bin since the first moment I set eyes on you.
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#11. No, I says, He stole it agin. He's a thief an a menace an I'm gonna trade him in fer a umberella.
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#12. How did you find me? The heartstone? he says.
I look into his eyes. His silver moonlight eyes. The still calmwater heart of him.
I don't need no stone to find you. I'd find you anywhere, I says.
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#13. Jack grins. Anyways, Saba likes to look at my bare chest.
Lugh looks at me. Frowns. Is that a fact? he says.
I feel myself go bright red. It is not a fact, I says. You stinker, Jack.
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#14. Like what you see,Angel? he says.
You ain't my type
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#15. Sometimes the strong give birth to the weak. An sometimes the weak grow to be strong
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#16. You got no idea, do you? You got no idea how beautiful you are.
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#17. I ain't never seen a creature like that before, she says. He's so smart, he's-
More, like a person than a bird? I says.
Yeah, she says. That's it.
Whatever you do, I says, don't tell him that. I'll never hear the end of it.
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#19. Maybe I did mean to kill myself. I didn't think it outright but ... maybe the truth is, I didn't
I don't
much care one way or th'other.
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#20. There can be beauty anywhere. Even here. An if it ain't there, you can make it yerself.
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#21. You got three seconds, he says, then they're comin down. He starts to count. One ... two ...
I turn and run.
I can still hear him laughin when I'm halfways back to camp.
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#22. Who am I?
What do I believe?
Never lose sight of what I believe in. Never, no matter what happens.
What one person does affects all of us.
We're all bound together. We're all threads in a single garment of destiny.
I make my destiny myself.
By the choices I make.
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#23. I never knew that missin somebody could hurt, I says. But it does. Deep inside. Like it's in my bones. We ain't never bin apart till now. Never. I dunno how to be without him. It's like ... I ain't nuthin.
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#24. I ain't no soft girl. I don't know no soft words.
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#25. I'm a fever in your blood now, Saba. As you are in mine.
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#26. We ain't got time fer you to yell at me or fer me to tell you everythin that's happened, so I'm jest gonna cover the main points real quick an then I'm gonna kiss you, he says.
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#27. She's packed her topside fundamentals so tight into her low-cut dress that it's only a matter of time before she busts her banks.
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#28. He knows how Molly grieves. Once he's gone, she'll lock the place up. Then she'll cry some and drink some. And she'll do that, over and over again, until the skin over this latest wound has grown tough enough for her to carry on.
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#30. I push him off, sit up an start puttin my clothes to rights. He's made a heroic effort to undress me.
You work fast, I says.
Yer a moving target, I hafts. Here, he says, lemme help.
I button, he unbuttons. I tuck, he untucks.
I slap his hand. I'll do it myself, I says.
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#31. Whatever it is, I sure didn't go lookin fer it.
You don't hafta, she says. If it's meant to be, it'll find you. We like to think we're in charge of our own lives, but we ain't. Not really.
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#32. Friends don't owe ... Friends don't repay.
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#33. Well, we all gotta die. You jest gotta hope you die good.
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#34. The heartstone burns, fierce an true. I bin missin him so deep. It hurts my heart to see him agin. I open my mouth to call his name. I stop myself. His head snaps in my direction. Like he knows I'm here.
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#35. Some things are jest too big to fergive.
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#36. Love makes you weak. Carin fer somebody that much means you can't think straight.
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#37. It towers above us, dark an jagged an dangerous. Behind it, more mountains stretch as far's the eye can see.
Is this th'only way to Freedom Fields? I says.
No, says Jack. I brought you this way because I thought you'd enjoy the scenery.
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#38. I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.
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#39. We don't choose the times we're born in, he says. That's the business of the stars. The only choice we got is what we do while we're here. To make it mean somethin.
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#40. Don't you dare walk away from this, Jack, don't you dare, Molly says fiercely. Most people don't ever feel what yer feeling. Be with her. An if it lasts one hour, one night, a week a month, it don't matter. Be with her, burn with her, shine with her ... fer whatever time's given to you.
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#41. You can trust me, he says.
You would say that. How do I know you ain't lyin?
You don't. But I ain't.
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#42. Lugh's decided to stick with bein mad at me. It's like traveling with a storm cloud. One of them that hangs low an heavy. The kind that builds an broods an keeps on buildin an brood in till everybody's got a sick headache.
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#43. We're bein cut asunder, Lugh an me.
Bit
By bit.
An it makes me think.
It makes me wonder.
Is this how he feels when he sees me with Jack? Do I look at Jack the way Lugh looks at Maev?
Helpess.
Throat bared.
Hopeless.
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#44. The Free Hawks is fighters, I says.
Warriors, she says, like you. An occasional highway robbers.
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#45. All the time I've knowed you, Jack, you kept the door to that heart of yers locked up tight an the key hid away. Looks like she found it.
He says nothing. Molly waits. Then:
Keys ain't her style, he says. She kicked the door down.
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#46. But tears don't bring back the dead. I learned that.
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#47. How can you make light of it? I says.
What should I do? She says. Cry fer the rest of my life? Molly of the Many Sorrows? ... You got battle scars. This is mine, she says. You know what it tells me? I'm a survivor.
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#48. Pa? You never said. What'm I gonna be? Good or bad?
He kisses the top of my head. Whispers in my ear, so's only him and me can hear. You, my darlin daughter, are gonna be somethin else entirely.
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#49. There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.
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#50. Move fast, travel light, an never tell 'em your real name.
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#51. My heart breaks. I hear it break. I feel it.
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#52. I'm alert, full of purpose, free. An few the first time in a long time, I can breathe.
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#53. The night starts to drift in. The crimson fingers of the dyin sun bleed into gray. The first stars blink down at us. Not long to wait now.
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#54. Lugh goes first always first an I follow on behind.
An that's fine.
That's right.
That's how it's meant to be.
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#55. If yer after a husband, forget it, he says. I seen what you did to the last one.
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#56. No, you need to listen, she says. This ain't Silverlake, an you ain't the daddy. Out here in the real world, the person who knows what they're doin is the daddy an right now, that's me. So. Do like daddy says an shift that tasty butt of yers. Unless, of course, you want it shot off.
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#57. Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.
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#59. Don't give in to fear. Be strong, like i know you are. An never give up, d'you unnerstand, never. No matter what happens.
I stare at him.
I won't, I says. I ain't no quitter, Pa.
That's my girl.
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#60. Ike! Jack yells, pointin at the villains at the table. Look! He's takin seconds!
Oh no, he ain't!
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#61. I hold up the heartstone. It's burnin hot now. He's on th'other side. The sound of a heartbeat. In my head, all around me, everywhere. So loud.
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#62. Did you know, he says, every time you make somethin, any time you make anythin, a little bit of yer spirit goes into it?
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#64. Lugh shines like the sun.
That must of made it easy fer them to find him.
All they had to do was follow his light.
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#65. I close my eyes. My bones sob. Throb. I'm so weary with tryin to hold myself together. Tryin to hold back the darkness.
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#66. G'bye, Saba, he says.
You sonofabitch, I says.
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#67. He's seen enough to know that you can't kill all the badness in the world. You cut it down in front of you only to find that it's standing right behind you.
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#68. It'll happen if it's meant to happen, he says. It's all written in the stars. It's all fate.
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#69. Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.
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#70. Oh, don't sit there blushin, he says, git on with it. Life's too short. Take her off in the bushes, my friend, an make her yer own. If you don't, somebody else will. Hell, I might jest make a play fer her myself. That 'ud put a rocket in yer pocket. Ha ha! How's about it, Red? You an me?
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#71. The Sword the burning decieved rising the science fiction the betrayed the spy the souls
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#72. Why'd you come after me? he says. Back at Hopetown. That cellblock was on fire. You'd hafta be crazy to go in there. But you did. You risked yer life to save mine an you didn't even know me.
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#73. Whatever's broke, he says, I can fix it. I'll fix it all. I promise.
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#74. The lies that lurk in the shadows of truth.
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#75. You have a rare fire within you. The power to change things. The courage to act in the service of something greater than yourself.
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#76. We like to think we're in charge of our own lives, but we ain't.
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#77. Anyways, settin so much store in one person ... it's dangerous.
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#78. How could she resist them eyes?
She tries, says Jack. Man, did she try.
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#79. His Chosen Ones. What a lie. They're slaves too. You jest cain't see their chains.
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#80. Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here.
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#81. A buckle an bootlaces don't buy good advice
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#82. I think of what we might say. Him to me. Me to him. I ain't no soft girl. I don't know no soft words. Be with me, Jack. That's what I'll say. Burn with me. Shine with me.
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#83. What does it look like I'm doin? If yer the shy type. I'd advise you to turn around.
Oh! I turn ny back on him quick.
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#84. Jest becuz I'm nine, don't mean I'm a stupid little kid.
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#85. We're on our own. An I feel calm. It seems crazy ... but I'm calm. Because now I see what I gotta do. An what I ain't gotta do, which is waste time thinkin that anybody's gonna help us. That somebody's gonna come along an rescue us. I cain't count on nobody but me.
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#86. The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes.
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#88. Thing is, he says, in my line of work, you spend a lot of time sittin. A dress lets the breeze up ... cool yer dingles down. There's a lot to be said fer a skirt.
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#89. Ever heard of the rule of three? he shouts as we run.
No!
If you save somebody's life three times, their life belongs to you. You saved my life today, that makes once. Save it twice more an I'm all yers.
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#90. Pretty dark in there, says Ash. Did you git lost? I feel a hot flush crawl up my neck. Lucky for me, Hermes trots over an I busy myself strokin his neck. It uh ... took us longer than we thought to put out the fire, says Jack.
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#91. He'll banish the shadows. He'll silence the whispers. An the wounds of my soul will heal.
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#92. I never knew. Didn't know everythin could be fine one moment an then the next moment so bad that it 'ud be like the time before that moment was all a dream.
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#93. There's some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They're the most dangerous.
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#94. Slim throws me a startled look. I aim my bolt shooter at him. Who am I, you sonofabitch?
Helluva time for a identity crisis, he says.
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