418 Quotes by Mary E. Pearson

Their voices meld into a cloudy rumble of their own, and I ponder Mira's and Aidan's secrets and imagine the injustice that threads through other lives, injustice that has no face because it is hidden away in a dark, shameful place, hidden for years in hopes of making it untrue.

But even the great can tremble with fear.Even the great can fall.

Duty. That was a word I hated as much as tradition.

As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.

Being like everyone else is highly overrated.

Be brave, be victorious

Words have longer lives than people.

Isn't that what all of life is anyway?Shards. Bits. Moments.Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?Am I just as full as anyone else?Enough?Pieces.I hold them like they are life itself.They nearly are.

It made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin.