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Immortal Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan
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“If you keep yearning for all beyond your reach, you'll end up wasting a lot of time, blinding yourself to the good that's here.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Being good and being brave are not the same. A compassionate coward can inflict as much damage as any villain.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Life is not fair. We cannot help how the dice fall, but it’s our choice whether to keep playing.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“When your days are dark, you forget the existence of dawn.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Heroes are not born but made through their choices. One could be given the greatest gifts of the world and choose to do nothing with them. Or someone with nothing could forge their way to the pinnacle of power. Whether mortal or immortal, our destiny is in our hands.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Some walls were built by others, while some were of our own making. The hardest to escape were those we chose to remain behind of our own will.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“For that is the real meaning of loneliness, being unable to share your mind and heart freely with another without the fear of being judged or found wanting, or that they might seek to use you.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“It doesn't matter how often you love, but how well.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“There were also quieter moments of simple companionship, the kind when your soul is at peace, when your heart is whole. When you want nothing more from life . . . content to simply exist. This was how I felt when he was with me.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Hope possessed a magic of its own-- rare to manifest, yet wresting miracles within one's reach.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Life was not about right or wrong but finding our own way, learning what made us happy, what filled our lives - instead of looking to others for it.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Welcome back, my beloved.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Those who have enough often forget those in need - not because they're unkind - but because it makes them uneasy, evoking guilt that they have so much while others, nothing. Life is inherently unfair.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Where you go, I go," he whispered into my ear. "Now, and always.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Lies were easier than the truth; they protected us, while the truth reached to where it hurt the most... to where there was more to lose.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
tags: liyen
“Wait for me. Find me,” I had told him. “No matter where I am or who I become, my heart will always be yours.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“You are more than your face, more than your name. With you, I am whole.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Watch your tongue. By offending her, you offend me too—and I am not as tolerant.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Tradition and history should be a guide but not a yoke. If something was wrong, the past was not a reason to keep it so.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Life is often a chain of small events with large consequences," Zhangwei said. "We can never predict any outcome.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“There were also quieter moments of simple companionship, the kind when your soul is at peace, when your heart is whole. When you want nothing more from life... content to simply exist. This was how I felt when he was with me.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“A piece of silver can change a person’s life, while it will do nothing sitting in a miser’s purse.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Failing is an essential part of learning. Each time you're beaten or outmaneuvered, study why, learn the signs - you won't be as easily defeated next time.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Some people go their whole lives looking for these things, never finding them. Nobody's life is perfect, it's just what we choose to see when we look at ours.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Kindness is never a duty.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Violence should never be the first answer.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Knowledge is one of the greatest weapons...Arm yourself well, for there are times words can reach where a sword cannot.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“Ignorance often makes cowards of us.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
“To be in power was to have a constant light shone over you. While it glittered from afar, any flaws or mistakes were magnified tenfold.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
tags: power
“There are lies of necessity and those of malice. Those you choose to tell will define your character.”
Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal
tags: lies

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