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21 " Chemistry was such a strange thing. I'd be willing to bet even Micah couldn't tell me why hundreds of men could leave me cold, while this one could string me along forever with only a smile. "
― Vicki Pettersson , The Taste of Night (Signs of the Zodiac, #2)
22 " Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else’s words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions. "
― Vicki Pettersson , The Scent of Shadows (Signs of the Zodiac, #1)
23 " Charis sipped, smiling back. "...I saw God everywhere."Grif narrowed his eyes. "Really?"She nodded and leaned close. "We were actually pen pals. I'd write Him letters in Latin and leave them in my closet.""Why the closet?"She shrugged. "Because He didn't appear after I set my front yard's bushes on fire, so I decided He was shy. "
― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)
24 " He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret, and with such power and raw force, I often woke with the taste of salt from my tears clinging to my skin." Joanna about Ben "
― Vicki Pettersson , The Touch of Twilight (Signs of the Zodiac, #3)
25 " That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard." Joanna "
― Vicki Pettersson , The Neon Graveyard (Signs of the Zodiac, #6)
26 " All right," Marcus said, like he was doing me a grave favor. "But take it slow, sister. Any sudden moves and we'll drop you like a used-up ho on the corner of Fifth and Bridger. "
27 " 'It ain't ever over. You can't have no future if you don't have no past, and the past ain't never done with you...At the end of your life, all you have is what you know.' "
28 " 'Sex drives us, love or no love. Power or no power. Money or no money. It's the most powerful drug in the world. Some pay for it. Some die for it.' "
29 " And that was is. Life sometimes flips on you like that. One minute you're looking at your reflection in the water, not entirely sure you like what you see, and the next minute you are upside down, submerged in a world where even familiar things look new. "
30 " Do I seem like the white-picket-fence sort of girl to you, Carl?" "No, you seem like the blood-soaked-walls kind of girl to me. "
31 " I think you look like the spawn of Satan.""Yeah, and you still look like my brother's favorite blow-up doll.""Speaking of, what's the deal with the size of my breasts in last month's manual?" He'd drawn me so top heavy a stiff wind could have knocked me off balance."Creative license," he said with a shrug."A little too creative. "
32 " Next time," I said wryly, swinging open the door, "just give me a knife and ask for a vein. "
33 " Miss me?" he whispered, giving me the once-over, eyes lingering on my chest. My heart skipped a beat. My glyph pulsed painfully."Like a urinary tract infection," I said, through gritted teeth. "
34 " ...Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place. "
35 " This was not a loss that could be shared. Grief was a place every person had to go alone, a lonely country populated by mistakes and a futile desire to turn back time for an impossible “do-over. "
36 " I snorted. "I could write a doctoral dissertation on his 'charitable spirit. "
37 " Success, she [Evie] claimed, made people want to trust you. "
38 " Most had faded to a light jade by now...all except Chandra, I noted, with more than a little satisfaction. She was still a dazzling Day-Glo emerald, and I gave a little finger wave from across the room. She merely returned the finger. "
39 " Even now...she [Kit] still had a need to believe that most people, that most of life, was good. That belief was a sort of strength, too. "
40 " 'I scrape under a nail and I pull out dirt. I pull off an overlay and I smell urine. It's the rot of their lives seeping into their nailbeds, you see? They can fix their hair and paint their nails and run on a treadmill until they're anorexia's poster child, but they can't fix their lives...lives of rotting perfection.' "