Michelle Sagara Quotes

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• Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over.

  Michelle Sagara

  Home, Remakes

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• What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

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  Trust, Fear, Expression

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.51, LUNA

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• Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

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  Eye, Beholder, Beauty Inside And

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Shadow”, p.215, MIRA

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• The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

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  Pain, Looks, Sometimes

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• There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.

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  Dragons, Should Have, Pissed Off

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.654, MIRA

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• Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

  Michelle Sagara

  Trying, Lasts, Failing

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• Stop judging your life only by the failures.

  Michelle Sagara

  Judging

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.178, LUNA

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• Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

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  Bitter

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Chaos”, p.165, MIRA

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• It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happen. But if you didn't? You missed this. This intense and prefect moment in which, while the world was almost literally going to hells all around you, hope and reality blended in a single, perfect note.

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  Believe, Reality, Perfect

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• If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.

  Michelle Sagara

  Reacting, Stills, Fairs

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.931, MIRA

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• We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

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  Failing

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.178, LUNA

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• Is there anyone’s life story you don’t want to know?” “Not really.” His expression was unexpectedly serious. “Because people make a story of their lives. Gains, losses, tragedy and triumph—you can tell a lot about someone simply by what they put into each category. You can learn a lot about what you put into each category by your reaction to them. They teach you about yourself without ever intending to do it—and they teach you a lot about life.

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  Loss, Expression, People

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• History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.

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  Shadow, Legends, Stranger

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Shadow”, p.236, MIRA

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• Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

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  Dragons, Cuisine, Annoying

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.89, LUNA

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• Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

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  Two Sides, Forever, Coins

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Courtlight”, p.217, MIRA

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• The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.

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  Weather, Way, Sometimes

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• I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead.

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  Waiting, Missing, Brain

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Chronicles of Elantra bundle: Cast in Shadow\Cast in Courtlight\Cast in Secret”, p.8, LUNA

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• Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.

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  Smart, Stupid, Being Stupid

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Chronicles of Elantra bundle: Cast in Shadow\Cast in Courtlight\Cast in Secret”, p.685, LUNA

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• In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.

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  Distance, Believe, Bears

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• You'll be with me, won't you?" "indeed." "Then what could go wrong?" Lord Sanabalis visibly grimaced. "You clearly do not believe in angry gods.

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  Believe, Lord, Angry

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Secret”, p.96, MIRA

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• Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.

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  Mean, Mind, Tests

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• I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.

  Michelle Sagara

  Law, Common Sense, Levels

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.837, MIRA

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• The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

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  Skins, Fit, Mask

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• Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don’t let it devour you.

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  Trying, Failing, Fine

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Shadow”, p.85, MIRA

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• If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

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  Heart, Rearranging, Internals

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Secret”, p.120, MIRA

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