27 quotes found
“You fuck - you ate my cat!”
“Using for a noble purpose is still using.”
“You make me want things that I can't have.”
“Arthur without Excalibur was still Arthur.”
“They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.”
“The accusations make me want to be kid again. Why isn't my mommy calling them big fat liars?”
“The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.”
“Anna's eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither of us wa...”
“Girls, on the other hand, have always come easy. I don't know why that is, exactly. Maybe it's the outsider vibe and a well-placed brooding look. Maybe it's something I think I see sometimes in the...”
“Youre sure you didnt leave? Didnt try to explore Thunder Bay again, maybe go down to the park and, I dont know, dismember some poor jogger?”
“The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.”
“It's shitty I guess. They're my friends. But... everything I want to talk about I can't say to them. It feels so separate, like I've touched something that's taken the color out of me.”
“I hate telling people this. I never know exactly how my voice is going to sound saying it, and I hate the stricken looks they get on their faces when they don't know what to say back.”
“We've got our heads pulled low inside of our hooded sweatshirts and our eyes are shifty. We look exactly like you'd expect someone to look if they were minutes away from committing a major crime.”
“What are you going to fill it with?" she asks. "Holy water or something?" "Probably Dasani," Thomas replies.”
“You wouldn't think that people would believe that we all got so incredibly beat upin so many interesting waysfrom a bear attack. Especially not when Carmel is sporting a bite mark that is a spot-on...”
“I can't believe that she's questioning the existence of magic when she's standing before me dead and talking.”
“I wish this knife was good for something besides death, that I could cut through time and walk into that house, into that kitchen where he trapped her, and get her out of there. I would make sure s...”
“I make my way to her table, seeing her eyes growing wider as I do. Ten or so other girls probably just developed instantaneous crushes on me, because they see Carmel likes me. Or so the sociologist...”
“This is my favorite part of the hunting. Getting to know them . Hearing their legends. I want them to be as large in my mind as they can possibly be, and when I see them I don't want to be disappoi...”
“I had a million different dreams but none of them was stronger than the rest. In the end they probably would have paralyzed me.”
“Fucking nightmares.My heart starts to slow down. Glancing down at the floor, I see Tybalt, who is glaring at me with a puffed-up tail. I wonder if he had been sleeping on my chest and I catapulted ...”
