479 quotes found
Author · American · 1982
American author (born 1982)
“The butterflies are working their way up from my stomach into my head, making me feel dizzy, and I try to calm myself by imagining the ocean outside, its ragged breathing, the seagulls turning pinw...”
“Stop your idiocy, Sandra, please. For once in your death.”
“We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.”
“Raven looks at me. What about you, Lena?I can feel Alexs eyes on me. My mouth is so dry; the sun is so blinding. I look away, toward the hundreds and hundreds of people who have been driven out of ...”
“Every choice is limited. That's life.”
“My aunt just stood there, and in that second it was as though the world and the future collapsed down into a single point, and I understood that thisthe kitchen, the spotless cream linoleum floors,...”
“Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.”
“Who the hell calls at two in the morning?""Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsay says."Very funny,”
“So many things become beautiful when you really look”
“Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came fromthis sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.”
“Its for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesnt go away. And ridiculous as it is, I cant shake the persistent, needling feeling that Ive...”
“This is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people habe a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will cl...”
“Power isn't free. Energy isn't free. It has to be earned.”
“An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.”
“Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.”
“Thats when it happens. The moment of death is full of heat and sound and pain bigger than anything, a funnel of burning heat splitting me in two, something searing and scorching and tearing, and if...”
“And suddenly I am blindingly angry at Raven--for her lectures, and her stubbornness, and for thinking that the way that you help people is by driving them against a wall, by beating them down until...”
“Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.”
“You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”
“This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.”
