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1 " I love that books allow us to experience other lives without us ever having to change where we live or who we are. "
― Cat Winters , The Cure for Dreaming
2 " Cripes, just listen to that desperation mixed with a wild joie de vivre. That doesn't come out of nothing. They'll be able to hear that a massive eruption once rocked the world and scattered pain and passion in it's wake. "
― Cat Winters , The Uninvited
3 " Why can't a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon? "
― Cat Winters , In the Shadow of Blackbirds
4 " And all the while Stephen started at me as if I were something magical. Not the ugly way other people sometimes stare at me, like he was meeting someone in a foreign country who spoke his language when no one else could. That's how it's been between us ever since. We understand each other, even when we astound each other. "
5 " I believe that 'love' and 'wrong' are two deeply unrelated words that should never be thrown into the same sentence together. Like 'dessert' and 'broccoli. "
― Cat Winters , The Steep & Thorny Way
6 " Come along. Let’s get out of here and go toast to youth and vampires and rebellion. "
7 " We were all survivors—every last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Death’s cold face. "
8 " Don’t ever worry what the boys who don’t appreciate originality think of you. They’re fools. "
9 " Endings are beginnings in disguise, dear Tru. They signify one door closing and another one opening. They mark the point where the heroine transforms from a person who's been beaten and badgered and bolstered by life into someone who's about to shed her past and metamorphose into an entirely new creature. "
― Cat Winters , Odd & True
10 " He can give everyone what they so desperately crave: hope for a life beyond death... Love poems fall out of fashion over time, often turning maudlin in the ears of future listeners. Humans' enjoyment of satire and humor is equally fickle, and epic adventures stop seeming so epic when new heroes accomplish new feats. Yet mortals' fear and bewilderment of death will never die - not as long as people keep dying. "
― Cat Winters , The Raven's Tale
11 " I’d rather be able to dream and fail than to never feel the pull of another way of life. "
12 " And do you know the oddest thing about murder and war and violence?''Oh, Mary Shelley, please stop talking about those types of things.''The oddest thing is that they all go against the lessons that grown-ups teach children. Don't hurt anyone. Solve your problems with language instead of fists. Share your things. Don't take something that belongs to someone else without asking. Use your manners. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Why do mothers and fathers bother spending so much time teaching children these lessons when grown-ups don't pay any attention to the words themselves? "
13 " What type of world are we living in, if we're destroying books? "
14 " . . . his mouth tasted of the divine sweetness of icing on a cake when the sugar isn't overdone. The taste of love before any pain gets in the way. "
15 " Snobs are only fun in Jane Austen Novels. "
16 " We live in a world so horrifying, it frightens even the dead "
17 " The road ahead may be rather upsetting for a sixteen-year-old girl. I'm afraid your delicate female eyes and ears will experience some ugliness." "Oh, you silly, naive men." I shook my weary head and genuinely pitied their ignorance. "You've clearly never been a sixteen-year-old girl in the fall of 1918. "
18 " We wouldn't even have wars, if adults followed the rules they learned as children. A four-year old would be able to see how foolish grown men are behaving if you explained the war in child's terms. A boy named Germany started causing problems all over the playground that included beating up a girl named Belgium on his way to hurt a kid named France. Then England tried to beat up Germany to help France and Belgium, and when that didn't work, they called over a kid named America, and people started pounding on him, too. "
19 " We live in a world so horrifying, it frightens even the dead. "
20 " He said the only real monsters in this world are human beings. "
