Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.
I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.
Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.
If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.
People get stupid when they’re in love; people want what they can’t have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.
But do you want this? It’s not much of a life. Don’t you see? It’s the first life I’ve had in four hundred years. With you–in the only way that matters–I’m alive again.
Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.
But just because something’s been damaged doesn’t mean it’s ruined.
The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.
Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day,” Raquel said firmly. “And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.
I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. “You’re in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren’t in love. You know, the sane ones.
Vic knelt by Lucas’s side. ‘You look like crap, by the way.”Thanks for breaking it to me gently.’ Lucas took a deep breath, then groaned.
Suspicion,” he said. “Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He’s a genius.” “Starring Cary Grant.” When Lucas gave me a look, I added, “You have your priorities, I have mine.
All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I’ve got to figure out how that happened.
In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.
The library would’ve cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.
I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. “Thank you,” I whispered. “You’ve done so much for us, and we’ve done nothing for you.””Don’t say that.” Vic’s hands patted my back. “You’re my friends. Nothing else to it.
He deserves better than this. But “deserves” doesn’t have a lot to do with falling in love.
Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
The only thing more compelling than love is power.
We are this world. Its next generation. If you’re not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?
Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could—to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.
We can’t begin to learn until we admit how much we don’t know.
Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.
But grief changes. It softens, adapts its shape to become a part of you. That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on.
My hate is stronger than the dimensions, stronger than memory, stronger than time. My hate is now the truest part of who I am.
You always apologize for things you don’t know. You should stop.
Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you’ll get out again.
Don’t you think you ought to at least think about getting yourself to your ultimate? Because, trust me, nobody else is going to get you there.
That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them.
We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.
…victory that comes from the sacrifice on an innocent isn’t a victory. It’s the end of us.
Also, somehow, there doesn’t seem to be any old-fashioned gender roles in place, or any gender roles at all. The priest who condemned me to the mob was a woman. I’ll cheer for equality later.
I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.”I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.
Even if that were true, it wouldn’t be irony,” Lucas pointed out. “Irony is the contrast between what’s said and what happens.
Sometimes we’re loyal to more than one thing. When there’s a conflict, we have to choose which loyalty to honor.
This could be our greatest nightmare. But maybe, intead this would be our only hope of salvation.
You don’t even know what loyalty means.””The hell I don’t! Ciena, if I weren’t loyal to you, would I be here?
But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.
Silently he traces out a new constellation, one only he knows. One with Noemi at the very heart.
The sun is setting on the New Republic,” Leia said. “It’s time for the Resistance to rise.
This is the last time Abel lets the humans make the plans.
Abel. I can’t let you…sell your body.”“The transaction is closer to a rental.
Please stop sniffing the robot boy, Noemi tells herself, jerking out of the trance.
The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place.” -Charity
I’ve loved Leia and Han since I was seven years old. Getting a chance to tell some of their adventures? Mind-blowing on every level. I wish I could go back in time and high-five my baby self.
I love the romance in Kimberly Derting’s ‘The Body Finder.’ ‘Cold Kiss’ by Amy Garvey is unbelievably touching – and about so much more than just romantic love.