181 quotes found
“Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye”
“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”
“Her screams spiraled up into the night air”
“So you'll teach me?" Val asked.Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire.""I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand."I know you're very brave," he said."Or st”
“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.”
“No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.”
“She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she ha...”
“Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.'He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?'...”
“If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.”
“Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as...”
“I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled a...”
“You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.”
“I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what...”
“I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.”
“Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”
“Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.”
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”
“... on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she'd cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile of bare feet and dande...”
“The hardest thing about being wanted was the hardest thing about wantingwanting badly enough that it gave you stomachache, wanting in a way that was partly about kissing and partly about swallowing...”
“I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in gene...”
