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• “You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can’t change what’s true.”

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• “All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank.” He paused, looked kindly at her. “Yes, Father. I understand.” “I regret many things I’ve done,” he said, “but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, ‘You are my master.”

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• “What do I always tell you? ‘ Not enough salt is an in-salt,’ and ‘Too much salt is an as-salt!”

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• “I regret many things I’ve done,” he said, “but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, ‘You are my master.”

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• “The Green Ember burns; the seed of the New World smolders. Healing is on the horizon, but a fire comes first. Bear the flame.”

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• “What is it, Father?” Picket asked as Mother tenderly took Jacks from him. “It’s only that, when you’re older, you hand out wisdom to your children like you know everything, but it is sometimes hard to follow your own advice.”

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• “It's better to live as you will want to have lived, rather than spend your time worrying about the end. You are right here in your story. Don't skip ahead”

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• “Growing up is terribly wonderful. But often it’s also wonderfully terrible.”

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• “we have to keep loving what’s on the other side of this fight—the other side of this rescue— and that will have to make us brave.”

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• “If you aren’t angry about the wicked things happening in the world all around, then you don’t have a soul.” There”

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• “I love a happy ending... because I need hope.”

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• “Thank you for loving us, Mother and Father. Thank you for preparing us for the unnumbered dangers we’ve faced. We had no idea that when you gave us all the light you did, you were guiding us to one day strike out at the darkness so fiercely.”

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• “My place beside you. My blood for yours. Till the Green Ember rises, or the end of the world!”

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• “This is a place where people make and are made. You are what you do. Choose wisely, young Picket. Choose wisely, brave Heather. Understand?”

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• “Shuffler, you're going to have to stop doing that....[....]...It's 'my place beside you,' not 'my place blocking your view.”

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• “We don’t have to win the war today, sir,” Heather said. She hoped she looked braver than she felt. “We only have to win the next battle.”

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• “It’s called Starseek,” she said, “and this is the star.” “Is it a real star?” Picket asked, his head cocked sideways and his whiskers twitching. “No, little one,” Heather said, “a real star hangs in the sky at night, along with a million others. This is just a game.” “A game?” Picket said. “Maybe they’re all for games.”

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• “She was seeing the other side of the tragedy, the world that lived, for now, only in the hopeful hearts of those who, though not seeing, saw.”

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• “The sunlight sparkled through the wind-bent boughs of trees, dancing in an ever-shifting pattern”

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• “Growing up is terribly wonderful. But often it’s also wonderfully terrible. Ha, a riddle of words amounting to nothing. A stuttering cleverism that falls as short as my feeble steps. But this is true. A teacher could become rich if he ever perfected the art of helping mature students unlearn many awful things. Enjoy your innocence, my dear. Even if it only lasts the day.”

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• “All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank.”

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• “He longed for a world where safe places for the weak and vulnerable were common, but that was not this world. Not right now.”

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• “I know this is a hard blow... But stay on the job, son. Do the next right thing.”

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• “Our love is a treasure, but it's not the house we keep the treasure in.' Heather smiled through the tears. 'There is a bigger world we fit inside, and we can't say yes to our love right here without saying no to the world. I can't. I know you can't either, or you wouldn't be the one I love so much.”

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• “there is no cost too high for doing what is right and no retribution great enough for doing what is wrong. To believe otherwise is to surrender our liberty to lies.”

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