51 quotes found
“Dont let them see you weak.”
“Don’t let them see you weak.”
“Survival feels like cowardice.”
“...as if prayers ever put out a fire.”
“Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.”
“More than most, I know the pain of surviving.”
“I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.”
“We stand a professional distance apart, as if I cant feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint soundthat of glass breakinguntil they swell to a crescendo that deafens.”
“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”
“What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.”
“So I make no effort to hide my pain. I dont ever put it all on display like thisbut for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will bemagni...”
“. . . and I dont expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. Were not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.”
“Pull yourself together. People among the living still need your help, and I haven't given you permission to quit.”
“You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in.”
“For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.”
“We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.”
“He is not the same person as when wemet, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, were closer than ever.”
“I knew exactly how he felt because I had walked in his shoes, wary and distrustful, unable to believe anybody could care about me without asking for something in return.”
“Lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild I couldn't think of anything that would horrify my parents more. Therefore, the proposition became ex...”
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“You think a man doesn't fall down, son? A real man falls down nine times and gets up ten. You think real men don't get scared? We do, all the time, especially when the people we love can be taken a...”
“His smile is too beautiful for this world, and I am dying of love.”
“Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.”
“I get it. You'd rather have him, broken, than me whole. If that didn't clarify my chances with you, nothing would. But you can't have what you want either, Deuce. I can't be your friend, feeling li...”
