Top 83 Michelle Sagara Quotes
#1. Kaylin glanced at the small dragon, who exhaled the sigh of the long-suffering everywhere.
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#2. Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don't let it devour you.
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#3. If she fails to wake, I will kill him. I will not kill him quickly.
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#4. Never anger the idealistic. They feel right is on their side - and right excuses much.
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#5. They feared you, and love can't exist when there's that much fear.
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#6. Hope was cruel. It could be an act of torture far more profound than despair.
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#7. Kaylin's memory was like a kaleidoscope; fractured, but in a way that was arresting, even beautiful, if looked at the right way. As a child, Catti's hair had been bright red, but it had shaded
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#8. There is not a man born among us who dreams - at first - of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.
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#9. I'm sworn to uphold his laws. Saying that you killed someone because they annoyed you isn't codified as acceptable, by those laws, anywhere I'm aware of."
"You are clearly not looking carefully enough.
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#10. It can't be any worse than whatever it is Annarion's doing."
"You are devoid of an active imagination, which is disappointing considering the experience you have now amassed.
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#11. I don't like people much - they irritate and annoy me. But I'm fascinated by them anyway.
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#12. I don't make the laws, I just enforce them."
"Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.
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#13. Kyuthe," he said. "Kaylin. An'Teela. You carry my heart in your arms.
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#14. Need was a funny thing; you were never sure if you had it by the tail or the jaw. Being needed forced her to find strength; being needed too much forced her to confront failure.
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#15. The Swords were the city's peacekeepers, something illsuited to Kaylin; the Wolves were its hunters, and often, its killers. And the Hawks? The city's eyes. Ears. The people who actually solved crimes.
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#16. You are, if I understand correctly, Chosen. It is your responsibility to use the words given you to ... finish things. To resolve stories that have been left hanging; to offer closure to the things abandoned long ago.
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#17. Is this some sort of test?"
"Everything that doesn't kill you is."
"Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.
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#18. Her hair was a flyaway mess, and her cheeks, she knew, would be a little too red for dignity - but she often had to choose between dignity and living another hour.
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#19. It's always easier,' he offered at last, 'when you feel these things yourself; seeing them in other people reveals just how ugly they are.
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#20. I'm never going to understand the Barrani."
"You needn't sound so morose, Lord Kaylin. They are unlikely to understand you either."
"Yes, but I'm unlikely to try to kill them for fun.
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#21. The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn't look too closely at another person's pain.
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#22. At the very least, if I have not - yet- chosen to end your life, I refuse to allow any of my kin to forever deprive me of my prerogative to do so.
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#24. Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.
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#25. Where are you going?" Kaylin stopped. "I'm following you." "Which is usually done from behind.
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#26. Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.
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#27. You'll be with me, won't you?"
"indeed."
"Then what could go wrong?"
Lord Sanabalis visibly grimaced. "You clearly do not believe in angry gods.
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#28. The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
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#29. There were days when boredom - or the possibility that things could get boring - was as much of a gift as life was willing to give.
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#30. She'd learned early that if she couldn't be on time to save her life, she'd better cultivate the unseemly art of groveling.
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#31. Chase stretched. "I'll give you the week." And he held up his pinky.
Eric grimaced. He HATED this part.
"Shake on it, pinky shake, or we don't have a deal."
"You're an asshole," Eric told him.
"Pretty much." He waited until Eric did, in fact, lock pinkies with him.
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#32. History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.
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#34. Kaylin hated politics. Hated them. She hated the stupid decisions, the game playing, the grandstanding. She hated political decisions made by people who never had to do any of the law's actual work. She hated the pervasive sense of superiority and smugness that underlay all of the rules.
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#35. The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.
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#36. They're humanity writ small, and many of them haven't learned how to hide, how to pretend to know things they don't know, how to doubt the things they want to believe in.
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#37. What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.
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#38. She outpaced Severn. Whole years of her life had been narrowly defined by the fact that she couldn't even keep up.
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#39. When you worshipped someone, you placed a burden on them. You expected them to live up to your ideals, expected them to be worthy of your worship. And who could do that? Not
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#40. Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.
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#41. If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.
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#42. There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.
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#43. She could have written a treatise on the danger of dresses in about thirty seconds, but it wouldn't have been printable.
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#44. To try. To live through the horror of failure; to endure the guilt. To try again. To make that choice.
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#45. I don't understand."
The Consort's smile was bitter. "No. No more do I."
"I doubt that."
"Do you imply that I lie, Lord Kaylin?"
"Clumsy of me. I'm not usually that subtle.
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#46. When you have all eternity, the word hurry is relative."
"And the guards, being mortal, have less of it, and their version of slugglish doesn't approach your version of fast?"
"Something very like that.
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#47. Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.
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#48. How much did a Dragon hide, when he walked the streets of the city?
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#50. What did she say?'
'She made her displeasure with his existence clear.'
'That's it?'
'She made some claims about how she was going to alleviate her displeasure.
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#51. Complaining about life's little miseries was one of the few conversational luxuries people were allowed, and at the moment, Kaylin couldn't put herself behind complaint.
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#52. There, in thin blue lines that could be called spidery, was the mark of Lord Nightshade - the
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#53. It made no sense, but nothing did at the moment, and at least this was a good crazy.
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#54. Because not all weakness has to be weakness. Weakness, strength, power, failure - they're just words, and we can define what the words mean if we have the will or the courage.
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#55. The end of the world is easy. We'll survive it, or we won't. But if we do survive, the rest of life is waiting.
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#56. There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.
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#57. You are an ... animal? A talking animal?"
Without missing a beat, Teela said, "Of course not. She's much, much harder to train.
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#58. Kill me now."
"Nonsense. Dead, you will provide no relief from the interminable boredom."
Everyone needed a purpose in life. Kaylin, however, wished fervently for a better one at this moment.
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#60. You never wanted to stand out. You never wanted to attract too much attention, because some of that attention would be bad.
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#61. Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack
even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.
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#62. Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered.
"What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail."
"We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.
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#64. She had managed to go almost three weeks without being late. Admittedly on two of those days she'd perambulated around the office like someone doing a good imitation of the walking dead - but she'd been timely walking dead, damn it.
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#65. Kaylin. The shape of a girl on the edge of the long climb into adulthood.
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#66. Some days, Kaylin fervently wished that she had already passed Adult 101 and could get on with being the person she wanted to be.
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#67. Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.
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#68. Who wouldn't put an entire world on the line for the off chance of getting their hands on a creature that doesn't sleep and won't leave them alone?
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#69. If I need something you can't give, I need to walk away, because sooner or later, all I'll see is what you can't give. I won't be able to see what you can.
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#70. Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.
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#71. She told him she was fine. Except the words she used were No. I'm not.
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#72. Manners,[ ... ] are severly underappreciated in my opinion".
"Oh?"
Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious.
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#73. I'm missing something, aren't I?"
"Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours."
"Tell him I'm dead.
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#74. Angry Leontine Sergeant, angry Aerian Commander in Chief, slightly bored Dragon, and panicked human - you could practically call it a racial congress, with humans in their usual position.
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#75. Leontines were a tad on the possessive side, they didn't share space well, and they responded to an order as if it were a suicide wish and they were magic wands.
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#76. But she only knew one way of conquering fear, and that was to charge into it, blindly.
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#77. Climbing was one of her strengths, but she didn't do it with grace - which, come to think, was an apt description of the way she lived the rest of her life, as well.
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#78. No ... if the world demanded their deaths in return for safety, she would have watched it burn.
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#79. Hope. Such a simple word, to hold so much. I like it," she added. "I think it's appropriate.
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#80. I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.
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#81. If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.
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#83. In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.
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