The Kingdom of Back
Marie Lu
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I am going to tell you a story you already know. But listen carefully, because within it is one you have never heard before.”
“Speak for those less fortunate than yourself, who will need your help. Speak for the ones who will come after you, looking to you for guidance. Stay true, daughter. One day, you will see it all go up in flames.”
“He tells you to play, so you play. He tells you to curtsy, so you curtsy. He tells what you are meant to do and what you are meant not to do, so you do and you dono do. He tells you not to be angry, so you smile, you turn your eyes down, you are quiet and do exactly as he says in the hopes that this is what he wants, and then one night you realize that you have given him so much of yourself that you are nothing but the curtsy and the smile and the quiet. That you are nothing.”
“Wishes have a habit of surprising their makers.”
“Even monsters must dream of fears and wants, and the sadness in his voice drew me closer.”
“Desire is your lifeblood, and talent is the flower it feeds.”
“All men are villains. He was afraid, I realized, and I wonder now if it was because he his proclamation made him a villain too.”
“Music is music. The source of it does not matter so much.”
“The older we were, the less magnificent we seemed.”
“If nobody remembers you after you're gone, it's as if you never lived at all.”
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