17 Quotes by Sangu Mandanna

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    Anna opened the box. Wow. Inside were four beautiful, freshly baked pastries. Anna didn't know what kind they were, but they looked and smelled utterly delicious. Two were in shades of green, the other two in shades of purple, and the warmth of them bled through the box and into her hands and chased some of the cold away."They're pan dulce," said the girl. "I knew someone needed them, so I baked them. I knew as soon as I saw you that it was you.

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    What is this power the dead have over the ones they leave behind? It's strange and beautiful and frightening, this deathless love that human being continue to feel for the ones they've lost.

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    If Sean’s voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma’s is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer’s is the voice of a wild animal. I suddenly think of a movie Ammara and I loved when we were little, and I think of Scar, the lion who murdered his brother to become king. That kind of voice.

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    If you expect the worse, you’re only denying someone a chance to be better.

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    They say the god’s favorites can wreak havoc with their words. I am one of those favorites. ‘Beloved by gods.’ And so I wreak havoc.

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    Your arrow was a spark,” she replies, “A spark of fire so hot and white that no one will be able to put it out. And even a spark of fire can consume an entire forest if it can jump from tree to tree... Watch the forest burn.

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    Come on,” I say, “let’s go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.

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