Alexandra Bracken Quotes
Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.
You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.
He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.
He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.
I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.
Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?
No spinning," I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.
Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.
If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.
I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.
Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.
Dear Dad, When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you’re the one that raised me.
I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.
—I don't want to lose you—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.
Oh my God, Green, ” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socksand put the kid out of his misery.
—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.
Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.
I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around.
You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.
Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged.
I'm not... I'm not without a heart, ' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.
She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.
What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?
You'd be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything.
...what does the future look like?...'A deep blue, fading into golds and reds-like fire on a horizon. Afterlight. It's a sky that wants you to guess if the sun is about to rise or set.
I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be.
I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..
I knew I wasn't making sence, but I couldn't seem to connect my thoughts to my tongue. That feeling... How did you tell someone that?
For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.
It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
None of this is your fault, ' I told him. 'None of it. You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.
If she's not alright, I'm going to rip out his heart and eat it." I nodded. "You really shouldn't eat raw meat, " Chubs said.
Are you driving this slow because you have no idea where we're going, or because you're hoping we jump out of the car & put ourselves out of our misery?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick
I know I'm going to shred the skin off your face and turn it into hair ribbons.
