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41 " 'Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.' "
― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)
42 " But they weren't in an ideal world. And it was too bad, Kit thought, exiting the shop. Bridget might have talked to her if they were. Kit might have been able to trust her. And neither of them would have to fear a man with a whole different sort of thrust-corrupted, soured, rotting...and seemingly unstoppable. "
43 " Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too to find that while people were being ripped from her life like paper dolls from a chain, she longed to be the one who'd be gone first. "
44 " Even with tortured minds and broken spirits, even bound to the Surface, they ached for God's presence. It would be like being drawn back into the womb. It would be rest. It was the only real redemption there was. "
45 " 'Even pain is impossibly exquisite.' "
46 " What about Cher and Suzanne?" I called after him."I don't know, but if you end up kissing them, call me. I wanna watch. "
― Vicki Pettersson , The Taste of Night (Signs of the Zodiac, #2)
47 " Most people were oblivious to the luck already bestowed upon them. I’d certainly been guilty of it. "
― Vicki Pettersson , The Neon Graveyard (Signs of the Zodiac, #6)
48 " I wasn’t heading toward a future I wanted as much as I was running away from one I didn’t. "
49 " Are angels supposed to call humans Commies? "
― Vicki Pettersson
50 " I saw you, looking like Hayworth, making me want to pin you up, pin you down, take you for a different kind of ride altogether. "
51 " People created chaos, not places, and they were damned good at it no matter where they lived. And when this glittering gem of a city teamed up with the world's oldest profession, fantasy piled atop fantasy; it could convince anyone that impulse was a virtue, not a vice. "
52 " I saw you, looking like Hayworth, making me want to pin you up, pin you down, take you for a different kind of ride altogether "
53 " ...you've been rooked. You know,you got the dust off. Killed. Murdered. Clipped. It's a rough deal, but you've had some good times, right? "
54 " Why the hell was she smiling like that?...Her mouth was blown so wide that the soft insides showed at the corners, like another grin was building in there. As if her laughter tumbled. Like joy was a living thing. "
55 " ...a companion had seemed unnecessary fuel when her body still burned at the core, waiting to ignite. But now, with the wind blowing icicles through her [Kit] veins, it felt like she, too, was in the grave. All her nuclear energy had been snuffed like a match between the night's icy fingers. "
56 " But many details were considered too small and mundane for the Centurions' purposes. They tapped the mud too briefly for things like new-fangled coffee-makers to matter. Instant coffee that tasted like a wet dream was apparently one of them. "
57 " She needed facts. Facts were bricks. Maybe she could build herself a wall with them, too, one tall and wide and strong enough to keep her alive when he was gone. "
58 " 'We've all had judgement lapses that had us tiptoeing toward our own personal apocalypse.' "
59 " 'You call this a catastrophe, but take it from me, the line between a catastrophe and a miracle is a fine one.' "
60 " 'It's much easier to destroy a life than it is to live one.' "