51 quotes found
“For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises dont matter as much aspersonal choice.”
“Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked.”
“It was a thing that could not be articulated or explained. It merely was, like the sunrise or a sheer and sudden drop to the giant water that had stolen my breath, where the land ended in the ruins...”
“Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.”
“...as if prayers ever put out a fire.”
“This guilt is a joke, and its exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.”
“Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in ...”
“Does changing for the better absolve you of all the wicked shit you did b”
“I didn't ask if he meant his rescue or the deal with Stalker that involved kissing. I couldn't resist pushing, just a little. "So it won't bother you if I find someone else?"His jaw clenched, and I...”
“I refused to show my fear, lock it down, Huntress.”
“Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming? He levels angry blue eyes on me. Youre a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?Only to people who try to kidnap me, I tell him sweetly, ...”
“I remember when I was a kid, I could never find anything positive about chubby girls. If a girl was pudgy in books, she wasn't okay. She couldn't be happy or make friends unless she lost weight.”
“Hey, thats why they invented the Internet, hermanita. To talk about weird shit and download porn.”
“But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.”
“Dont let them see you weak.”
“I missed you." I didn't mean to tell him so, even if it was true. Admitting need felt like weakness; it demonstrated dependence and vulnerability.”
“The strong survive.”
“I resolved, then, deep in my soul never to let him go. I'd be the one never to leave him. I'd prove to him that some things could be for always- that we could be.”
“My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.”
“Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.”
