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Lucy Christopher QUOTES

1 " You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

2 " I mean, that star over there is blinking at me madly now, but for how long? An hour or two, or for the next million years? And how long will we sit here like this? Just another moment, or the rest of our lives? You know which one I'd prefer... "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

3 " You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found.
I'll take you there, you'd said.
And I could say that I agreed. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

4 " And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

5 " There is no need to put your heart in a bottle, then you will die.
- Ty from Stolen "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

6 " I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tears looked so odd on you. It was like the strength of you just seemed to sap away. The surprise of it stopped me from being so scared. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

7 " You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you. "

― Lucy Christopher

8 " You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted something from me, as though you’d wanted it for a long time. No one had ever looked at me like that before, with that kind of intensity. It unsettled me, surprised me, I guess. Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

9 " I didn’t look back, but I knew you were still watching. It probably sounds weird, but I could just feel it. The hairs on my neck bristled when you blinked. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

10 " Ty?” I said, trying out your name, liking the way it sounded. “So what’s it like anyway? Australia?”
You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.
“You’ll find out,” you said. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

11 " I didn’t want the person standing there, beside the bed, to have the same face I’d found so attractive at the airport. But you were there all right: the blue eyes, blondish hair, and tiny scar. Only you didn’t look beautiful this time. Just evil. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

12 " Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

13 " I remember the lights turning into blurs of blazing fire. I remember the air-conditioning chilling my arms. The smell of coffee smudging into the smell of eucalyptus. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

14 " I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But all things ripple out, cause shrapnel. "

― Lucy Christopher , The Killing Woods

15 " Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. “I can’t go back. Not yet. I can’t leave.” And she held my head tight to her chest and wrapped her arms around me. “You don’t have to,” she said, rocking me. “You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, not anymore.” And I cried. "

― Lucy Christopher

16 " If there'd been an astronaut on the moon right then, I'm sure I could have seen him. Perhaps he could have looked down and seen me too... the only one who could. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

17 " I remember that feeling of skin. It's
strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers
still tingle with it. "

― Lucy Christopher

18 " Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound corny; it just honestly did. The only sounds were the droning crickets and chip-chips of the bats, the farawy wind against the sand, and the occasional distant yowl of a dingo. There were no car horns.No trains. No jack-hammers. No lawnmowers No planes. No sirens. No alarms. No anything human. If you'd told me that you'd saved me from a nuclear holocaust, I might have believed you. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

19 " Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)

20 " How long will you keep me?" I asked.
You shrugged. "Forever, of course. "

― Lucy Christopher , Stolen (Stolen, #1)