479 quotes found
Author · American · 1982
American author (born 1982)
“The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped”
“I'm scared all the time," she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't," Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either.”
“It’s kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there’s no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you’re no longer a kid bu...”
“Stop your idiocy, Sandra, please. For once in your death.”
“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,”
“Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.”
“It’s for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn’t go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can’t shake the persistent, needling feeling that ...”
“But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-...”
“So many things become beautiful when you really look”
“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.”
“That’s 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 i...”
“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.”
“Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.”
“Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?''Sometimes.''So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.'But this is my voice. How would you be able ...”
