Top 66 Karou's Quotes
#1. It was, and then it wasn't. Karou's stomach roiled as she contemplated the possibility of being so suddenly not.
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#2. Karou's smile was pure; she was happy to give happiness.
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#3. Your entire being can become a scream. At the edge of a hurled knife, that fast. Karou's did. She wasn't flesh and blood in that instant but only air rushing in to gather for a scream that might never end.
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#4. It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.
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#5. Walking through, Karou experienced it all in a rush of old and new experience that was like the convergence of two swift rivers: Madrigal's memory and Karou's marvel, merging at every step.
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#6. I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.
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#7. She experienced a queer collision of reactions these days. Karou's were foremost, and the most immediate, but Madrigal's were hers, too: her two selves, coming together with a strange kind of vibration. It's wasn't disharmony, exactly.
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#8. Liraz may have captured Ziri's soul like a butterfly in a bottle, but that was only a formality. It was already hers.
And, clearly, judging by the state of her laugh-sobbing in Karou's arms, hers was his, too.
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#9. Wasn't that what she had always wanted, to be chosen?
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#10. Be that cat! she reminded herself. The one that stayed out of reach, and never - ever purred.
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#11. She didn't need a Taser; she was more than capable of defending herself without electricity. She'd had an unusual education.
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#12. Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.
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#15. Maybe she was losing her mind. or maybe ... maybe she was finding it.
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#16. Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!
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#17. Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?
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#18. And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not - they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.
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#19. Letting you go, Karou, will be like oenin the window for a butterfly. One does not hope for the butterfly's return."
"I'm not a freaking butterfly.
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#20. The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deliver.
Again it bore a single word. But this time the word was Please.
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#21. This new thing between them it was ... Astral. It reshaped the air, and it was in her, too - a warming and softening, a pull - and for that moment, her hands in his, Karou felt as powerless as starlight tugged toward the sun in the huge, strange warp of space.
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#23. Oh, good, Pestilence is free, said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm.
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#24. I came back to find you," Akiva said. "I don't know why. Karou. Karou. I don't know why." His voice was so faint she could barely hear him. "Just to find you and be in the world that you're in ...
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#25. Tomorrow they will start the apocalypse.
Tonight, they let themselves look at each other, just for a little while.
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#26. You can't atone for taking one life by saving another. What good does that do the dead?"
"The dead," she said. "And we have plenty of dead between us, but the way we act, you'd think they were corpses hanging on to our ankles, rather than souls freed to the elements.
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#27. Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.
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#28. There was darkness, and monsters vast as worlds swam in it.
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#29. Follow me, said Karou.
As if he could have done anything else.
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#30. Let's just get this out of the way so I can relax. Karou, your friends aren't going to eat us, are they?"
No, Karou thought. They are not. She whispered back, "I don't think so. But try not to look delicious, okay?
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#31. When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy
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#32. And for the first time in a long, long time, Karou felt the truth of it. Her heart was not wrong.
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#33. Love is a luxury."
"No. Love is an element."
An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.
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#34. Akiva felt the tilt of the world trying to tip him forward: to be nearer to her
nearer and touching
as though that were the only state of rest, and every other action and movement were geared to achieving it.
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#35. You were kinder to yourselves in your legend than we were," Karou continued. "We made ourselves out of grief. You made yourselves in your gods' image, and with a noble purpose: to bring light to the worlds."
"A black job we've done of it," he said.
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#36. Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou
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#37. Karou wasn't a prize to win; that wasn't why he was here. She was a woman and would choose her own life. He was here to do what he could, whatever he could, that she might have a life to choose, one day. Whoever and whatever that included was her own affair.
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#38. That's your evidence? Flimsy. Maybe he secretly fights crime and he's texting infuriating riddles to his nemesis," suggested Karou.
"Yes, I'm sure that's it. Thank you.
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#39. Well, Karou had wanted to retort, with all the gravity and maturity she could muster. Duh.
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#40. I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.
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#41. Can you believe him? Does he think if he just dangle his boy bits at you like a cat toy you'll go scampering after him?"
"Of course he thinks that," said Karou. "This is his idea of a romantic gesture.
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#42. She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.
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#43. A pause came between them, and it was so full of Akiva that Karou imagined she could smell him.
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#44. I love you, crossbar,' whispered Karou and petted it.
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#45. They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.
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#46. Tamaki: Spring, m'man, was made for romantic comedy!! And Haruhi and I make the perfect couple! We're meant for this!
Karou and Hikaru: What about us?
Tamaki: You are sexless!
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#47. Nd when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.
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#48. Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.
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#49. You are a conniving, deceitful hussy. I stand in awe."
"You're sitting."
"I sit in awe.
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#51. From: Zuzana Subject: Miss Radio Silence To: Karou
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#52. Elemental. Love is an element, Karou remembered from a long, long time ago, and she felt like she was floating.
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#53. It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default - like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.
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#54. He watched her with a hopeful, piercing scrutiny that made her tingle, she felt so ... seen.
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#55. It's not free, Karou. Magic has a price. The price is pain.
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#56. Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.
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#57. Karou had things to do. Sometimes they took a few hours; other times, she was gone for days and returned weary and disheveled, maybe pale, maybe sunburned, or with a limp, or possibly a bite mark, and once with an unshakable fever that had turned out to be malaria.
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#58. Karou enjoyed the idea that you could "believe what you want," as though reality were a buffet line. If only. Triple helpings of cake, please.
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#59. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou, and whatever it was, it was as sweet as a patch of sun on a glossy floor and, like a cat, she just wanted to curl up in it.
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#60. Karou loved Zuzana for her willingness to play out such silliness on a long kite string.
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#61. Rushing, like wind through a door, and Karou was the door, and the wind was coming home, and she as also the wind. She was all: wind and home and door. She rushed into herself and was filled. She let herself in and was full.
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#62. In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats.
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#63. He's such a gargantuan asshole.
A giant, stupid orifice.
A walking, talking cranny.
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#64. You are not just going to vanish like this, Karou. This isn't some goddamn Narnia book.
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#65. He said, You don't have to be afraid, Karou. How could it be awful? It's *you.* You can only be beautiful.
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#66. Daughter of my heart,' was the message Brimstone sent just for Karou. She wanted to cry again right here in the court, thinking of it. 'Twice-daughter, my joy. Your dream is my dream, and your name is true. You are all of our hope.
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