Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Quotes

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You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly understand what it is to fight for what you believe, and how sometimes you have to fight with words and dreams after all the weapons have been put away. You serve a cold god, surviving on his power for thousands of years without ever living!

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.

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Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.

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I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to."

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My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live." (Page 79.)

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The question then is, how much are you willing to give?" And I answered, "Anything." A breath later, Zane echoed my response with, "Everything.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

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You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for?

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The only way I can protect him now is to make sure he never understands how easy killing can become.

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I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you innocence, my child, my child. I pray you don't grow up too fast. Never know pain, my dear one, my dear one. Nor hunger nor fear nor sorrow. Never know war, my child, my child. Remember your hope for tomorrow.

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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, Aubrey. I will avenge this scar and every scar you have put into my heart.

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Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes