172 quotes found
“Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does.”
“You can't go around feeling too much.”
“Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.”
“Each day, at the same time, Jude would return and they would be there, led by Webb, whose life could not have been more different than his. Where Webb's memories of childhood were idyllic and earth...”
“Maybe memories should be left the way they are.”
“For reasons he couldnt understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowin...”
“He's my father!" she bellowed, pointing to Trevanion."Vestie!" Beatriss said firmly, stopping to stare up at her. "I'll snip at the tongue if I ever see it in such a way again! Trevanion, speak to ...”
“Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys,' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow.”
“If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.”
“In an instant he forgot Joe's poem about Japan except the part about 'you are the bell, and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,' and a new sound entered his life, like when he was a kid and h...”
“We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.”
“We have a dilemma, then, Finnikin said fiercely. Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whos...”
“I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in."He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.”
“When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord.”
“I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.”
“I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said.Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Q...”
“I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, "Frankie, you're silly, y...”
“Are you calling us pigs? Froi asked, watching as Rafuel winced for the tenth time at the formality of Frois Charyn.Rafuel thought for a moment and then nodded.Actually yes, I am. Pig-like.Froi turn...”
“Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.”
“If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.”
