Fundo Preto Quotes

There was a difference between friendship and family, between the people you chose to surround yourself with and the people you were stick with, good or bad. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

Maybe fear of fire wasn't the problem, maybe fear of his father was. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

Like an anchor, love will hold fast in a storm, but it can also pull you under. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

Veronyka didn't feel like a boy on the inside - she wasn't like some of the children she'd known growing up who might be born as boys or girls but didn't feel like they fit that category, and so they dressed in a way that felt right to them. That was their truth, no matter what the world saw. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

Nothing of value in life came easy; always there was a price. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

We were night and day, moon and sun- darkness and light.
We were nothing without each other. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

Love no one, let no one love you. Less pain that way. Sev could die tomorrow, and not a soul would miss him. Sometimes it was hard to remember why he'd thought that was a good thing. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

Some families you were born into. Others you mad along the way. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

Magic had always been a part of the empire - for some people it was like breathing. How was it okay to make existing illegal? ~ Nicki Pau Preto

Fear, he'd learned, didn't leave room for logic. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

How Easily a person could convince themselves they were doing the right thing, no matter the damage they did to the person they supposedly cared about, if it was out of love. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

But that was the nature of life and loss: There was never enough time. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

I control you, he said to his fear, you do not control me. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

How did Val know? How did she always know the way to Veronyka's heart - and why did she always do damage when she got there? ~ Nicki Pau Preto

History was a living, breathing, changing thing - even when it was your own. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

She squeezed her eyes shut and stopped resisting. She fell into his arms, where he held her gently for a heartbeat then sighed. She thought of Val again. For all her dragging and pulling and demanding, all their ways their bodies had come into contact - and conflict - with each other over the years, Val had never given herself to Veronyka like this. Never offered herself at all. With Val, everything was take, take, take. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

Life was easier when you didn't care - or so he'd thought. He'd spent so much time afraid of hurting, of losing everything again, that he'd forgotten life wasn't worth living - worth saving - if you had nothing to live for. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee. ~ Bob Brown

Love and politics are like oil and water - they don't mix. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

This was why Veronyka had wanted to be a Phoenix rider in the first place: to protect, to save, to champion the weak and powerless. ~ Nicki Pau Preto

War has a way of making regular people into heroes. ~ Nicki Pau Preto