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"I'd learned to avoid mirrors. They never seemed to show me what I wanted to see."
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"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."

"But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness."

"We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception."

"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"

"We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present."

"Why do you want to fall in love when love is inside you?"

"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

"When you give your mind, body, and heart the message that you are worth the effort of being conscious, miraculous things start to happen."
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"I opened my mouth, but the same words came to me again and again.I will not scream. I will not scream. I will not scream."

"You're weak because you're afraid of people seeing your weakness. You're letting shame decide who you are."

"I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?"I'm already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship."i think so."

"Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)"

"Inej placed her hands on Nina's shoulders. "We'll see each other again."Of course we will. You've saved my life. I've saved yours."I think you're ahead on that count."No, I don't mean in the big ways. Nina's eyes took them all in. "I mean the little rescues. Laughing at my jokes. Forgiving me when I was foolish. Never trying to make me feel small. It doesn't matter if it's next month, or next year, or ten years from now, those will be the things I remember when I see you again.Kaz offered his gloved hand to Nina. "Until then, Zenik."Count on it, Brekker. They shook."

"Greed is your god, Kaz."He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever."

"I promise, Matthias. I'll take you home.""Nina," he said, pressing her hand to his heart. "I am already home."
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