beyondtheciouds

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"The knighthood came into the courtyard, and I was just as I'd been all those weeks ago. Barefoot in the apple orchard, martyring myself.

"Have a little faith, Six," Benji said, his voice stilted. "Can't you see I've set you free?"

I looked over my shoulder, the ghost of Aisling still on me. Cold, beautiful, and disapproving. "Free, boy-king?"

"You don't need the signs anymore. You've seen this world for what it is. A tale of lurid contradictions—a true story, and also a lie. You've known coin, knowledge, strength, intuition, love, life, and death—and beaten them at their craft. You've known everything, Diviner. And to be all-knowing..."

The king of Traum smiled at me, his future queen. "What is a god, if not that?"

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"My armor lay like a vanquished enemy at our feet. Just like in the Fervent Peaks when I'd moved through the hot spring's feverish water, I felt weightless."

pg. 301

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“The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

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“Every story needs its hero. And it's villain. And it's monster.” ― Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio

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“I was losing my faith in everything. But the two of us meeting… it felt almost divine.” ― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

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“It is easier, swearing ourselves to someone else's cause than to sit with who we are without one.” ― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

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“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ” ― Jane Austen, Emma

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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.” ― Oscar Wilde

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“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” ― Virginia Woolf

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“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerable intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

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"L o v e has ruined my whole damn life."

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche