Jessica Khoury Quotes

We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.

Use your wish, ” I whisper to Aladdin, opening my eyes. “Please.”“If I do, ” he replies softly, “I’ll lose you.

If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together?

Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze.

A kind of childlike purity to her repose that made the thought of kissing her seem vile.

I think of the five generations it will take before [Mr. Perfect]'s born, and I want to scream. I want someone now. I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them.

A body can't live without a heart. And I can't live without you.

Have I told you I love you?" he whispers.I smile. "Not since this morning.""Unforgivable. I will tell you every hour of every day.

That your eyes are like bits of sky seen through the leaves. And that, like the rain washes the mud from the leaves, you... how did he say it? Oh yes. That you wash the darkness from the world.

There's just one rule, just one basic law that everyone lives under : take control or be controlled.

The noblest life is the one laid down for another.

How many have died that I might live?And who has died that I might live?

I can't let the killing go on. No more death, not because of me. This is the only way. You and I both know it. Eio.

She said, 'People are like stars, but it's stories that turn us into constellations. If we don't tell our stories, we burn alone in the dark.

It's time for both of us to be free.

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.

Remember, Pia, " he whispers. "Perfect is as perfect does.

She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.

The will of this boy thief flows in golden streams. It is the thread with which I weave, the colors with which I paint, the element with which I create.

It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.

Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity.

For the last few centuries, these jeweled fruits have been my constant and sole companions. The greatest treasure in all the world, as comfortless as light to the blind.

Find me, my thief.

It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it.

Beauty and death, so closely knit together. This seems to be the central theme of my life.

Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition, am I right?" ~Darian