Top 42 Miyuki Miyabe Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Miyuki Miyabe

#1. Chikako could see Nobue's flowers reflected in Kaori's eyes. They looked like stars. Like love itself.

#2. But do not misunderstand - I turned him to stone from compassion. Stone men have stone hearts, and stone hearts cannot be wounded or broken. I would show you the same compassion, if you wish it.

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#3. Failure doesn't mean anyone did anything bad. Sometimes people fail even when they only do good things. Or they do what they think is good. Only with hindsight can anyone understand the failures they experience.

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#4. Failure and disillusionment are realities, but ideologies are made of dreams. And dreams, it would seem, do not fade easily.

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#5. Ico made to charge her again. The queen raised a clawlike nail, but Yorda stepped between them. Without a word, Yorda stretched out her arms in front of Ico, holding him back. Ico looked into her eyes and she shook her head, pleading with him.

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#6. Don't confuse a kid whining for a treat with the argument of a rigorous, logical mind, he had said, as logical as ever.

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#7. Yorda turned away from the shadow-creature just as its claws were about to close on her shoulders. Her eyes met Ico's, then fell to his outstretched hand.
Finally, fear spurred her to action. She ran and jumped.

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#8. Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with memories of their past?

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#9. What you don't know, boy, is that people have feelings that don't obey logic ... Once you know true love, how could you settle for anything less?

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#10. At last, she made her decision and grabbed Ico's hand tightly.

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#11. Ico stared at Yorda's face. It was beautiful. He didn't dare breathe for fear of breaking the spell. Her eyes were sparkling.
Thank you.

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#12. Only the very top of the arched ceiling remained in shadow, as though some dark creature lurked there, devouring all light that strayed too close.

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#13. No matter how confused, how tired, or how sad, every night has its morning.

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#14. It was all right to be sad. It was all right to lament. It was all right to feel anger. But [is] not all right to run away.

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#15. Your adventure is your own. No one may ever take it from you.

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#16. But, every once in a while, even the most normal of people act in ways that surprise themselves, doing things they might never have imagined themselves doing because they're excited, or they're obsessed, or they're in love.

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#17. She put a hand on his arm and gently pushed.
"What?" Ico asked, his voice hoarse. "You want me to run away by myself, too?"
Yorda nodded.

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#18. But, my son. I knew love here as well.

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#19. Ico ran back to the windmill, growing increasily nervous with each moment Yorda was out of his sight. He didn't want to think what would happen if the shadow-creatures attacked while they were apart.

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#20. For the very young to rail against their own bitter fate, they must draw upon all their strength and spirit. That is why they are so steadfast.

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#21. Ico took the girls hand in his own, the gesture feeling intensely familiar, as the sun shone brightly over the end of their long story.

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#22. We are but an ephemeral bubble drifting on the surface of an endless void. Yet I can think of no bubble more beautiful.

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#23. All stories are the sin of their weaver.

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#24. The memory was so vivid that, like a fresh scab, he was sure he would start to bleed if he picked at it.

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#25. One of the girls saw her, then did a double-take. Her eyes sparkled. Not a bright sparkle, but a dull, dark sparkle, like the twinkling of a lantern at the bottom of a deep well. Here's something fun, her eyes said. Here's something freakish. Let's play with it and see if we can make it cry.

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#26. Yorda...that's your name?

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#27. Look at yourself. Hatred and anger, kindness and bravery. They are all yours, and rightly so. Accept this, face it straight on, then ask yourself what it means to change your destiny.

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#28. There's a point to all the mistakes, the comebacks, the rethinking, the living
the living for all you're worth. There's a point to finding our own path. Please, give the people of Vision a chance to find theirs.

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#29. But the boy was there, and he was looking at her. That was when Yorda understood what was drawing out her memories of the castle into the boy. It was him. He wanted to know its dark past. He wanted to know everything. No one could stop this. Not even the queen.

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#30. What is good, and what is evil? Where do you draw the line between the two?" Now Yuriko was getting a little upset. I'm just in fifth grade, you know. They haven't taught us difficult things like that yet. "There

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#31. Yorda slid down the side of the throne platform and walked again toward Ico. She moved differently now. This was not the Yorda he had led through the castle by the hand, the Yorda who would wander aimlessly if he did not call out to her. This was the queen's double, her puppet.

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#32. Vesna Esta Holicia, until you shine again, into vision, into the real world. Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal.

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#33. Filled with hope, Ico looked into Yorda's eyes. He felt like was looking into an hourglass, trying to pick through the grains of sand for some truth buried there long ago. He hadn't found anything yet, but the warmth of Yorda's hands in his told him that he was getting close.

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#34. She had gone quite a distance. He had to backtrack a significant way, stopping to call out every few paces. When at last he found Yorda, the sight of her slender frame sent a stab of pain through Ico's chest as he remembered the girl he had seen in the water.
He reached out his hand to her.

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#35. No matter where I go, sadness follows. No matter how much time passes it won't go away. You get only one heart when you're born, and you can't turn it in or get it repaired. The only thing that fills it is more sadness. I'm surprised there's any room left in there at all.

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