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Alexandra Bracken

"Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?"

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"Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?"

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"When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I'm silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination."

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Amber Hurdle

"When gossip starts, be deaf."

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"Silence is so freaking loud."

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"Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!"

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"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."

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"Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don't have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!"

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"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"

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Amber Hurdle

"I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun."

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Amber Hurdle

"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."

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Amber Hurdle

"The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say."

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"How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel? 'Maybe you don't have to move it, Etta said, folding the gown over the lid of the trunk. 'Maybe you have to climb it."
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"Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins."
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"This time should have been no different. But it was."
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"Why are you so weird?'Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch.'At least what I do is considered an art form.'Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch."
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"I do not know what, in the end, makes a person who they are. If we`re all born one way, or if we only arrive there after as series of chioces. The bible claims that the wicked act on their own desires and impulses, because God is good, only good, and He would never compel a soul to wickedness. That I`m supposed to count on justice in the next life, even if I can`t have it in this one."
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"Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder."
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"You wanna go build some shelves with me?"
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"What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?"
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"Are you sure this isn't a nightmare? And that we won't just wake up?Yes.Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind."
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