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“People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.”
“You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.”
“Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts as much searing, monumental pain it causes me I have to exist.”
“What kind of people?"The dead kind. The still-walking-around kind. The reeking, stinking, rotting-from-the-inside-out kind. Toothy and grinning, nasty with the dark and the dust of abandoned strip ...”
“Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These...”
“My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.”
“The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.”
“Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that shed rather die than go back to a man she didnt love.”
“From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud s...”
“Do you really want to know where we come from?" she said. "In every century, in every country, they'll call us something different. They'll say we're ghosts, angels, demons, elemental spirits, and ...”
“All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.”
“Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other peoples misery. They lie when it suits them and dont see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without c...”
“You can't keep acting like this," Lillian says, and for the first time in months, it's like she's actually trying to be nice. "Tragedy isn't this evil thing that came from outer space. It's just th...”
“Whatever they said, whatever they told you about yourself, its not true”
“Running is like music. It requires rhythm and focus. It requires dedication. It requires a dogged ability to shut out everything else. The herd is strung out below me, keeping time with the thump a...”
“Why does she always seem to think you drive like we're holding up a bank?"Roswell grinned and rolled his eyes, "Because that's what teenagers do, right? They also carve swastikas into their arms, s...”
“There was so much about our past that I still didn't understand, and I wasn't one to tell the future. I could only tell the way the world worked. History was a tangled thing, people were resilient,...”
“Are you waiting for someone to come and get you?” I whisper. I sound small and thirsty. He doesn’t answer. Instead, he bends his head and kisses me, just once, then let’s me go. When Connor would k...”
“Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.”
“Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without...”
