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Seraphina

Rachel Hartman

Top 10 Best Quotes

“The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.”

“That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.”

“I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.”

“He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived something true about me that no one else had ever noticed. And in spite of that—or perhaps because of it—he believed me good, believed me worth taking seriously, and his belief, for one vertigi-nous moment, made me want to be better than I was.”

“For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.”

“Who will kiss you? Who will rock you to sleep?" His voice was slow, drowsy. "You never did," I said, trying to tease him. "You were more father to me than my father, but you never did that." "Someone should. Someone should love you. I will bite him if he will not.”

“I mistook you for a metaphor.”

“Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.”

“I’m attracting small children,” Orma muttered, twisting his hat in his hands. “Shoo it away, will you?”

“I became the very air; I was full of stars. I was the soaring spaces between the spires of the cathedral, the solemn breath of chimneys, a whispered prayer upon the winter wind. I was silence,and I was music, one clear transcendent chord rising toward Heaven. I believed, then, that I would have risen bodily into the sky but for the anchor of his hand in my hair and his round soft perfect mouth.”

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