181 quotes found
“No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.”
“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.”
“The hardest thing about being wanted was the hardest thing about wanting—wanting badly enough that it gave you stomachache, wanting in a way that was partly about kissing and partly about swallowin...”
“I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.”
“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”
“Mutually assured destruction.”
“A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted."No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die."Maybe you can help her a...”
“This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy.”
“She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.”
“He gave her a smile that wasn’t really a smile at all. “Eh, it wouldn’t be so bad. I wouldn’t have to study for the SATs or get a summer job or figure out my major. I can drink Elderflower wine all...”
“Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.”
“She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.”
“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be”
“Remember that I’m still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won’t let you out.”
