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81 " You can't escape your fate. "
― Donna Augustine , Karma (Karma, #1)
82 " It was hard to be pleasant when you were in mid-fight with someone, even if they didn’t know it. "
― Donna Augustine , Wild One (Born Wild, #1)
83 " All the fighting and near-death experiences didn’t come close to the intensity of life I felt exploding within me in at this moment. This was what I’d been looking for, the thing that would blast the taste of death from my mind until all I could do was feel. "
― Donna Augustine , The Dead (The Wilds, #3)
84 " It’s good for body. We do this once a month—sometimes more. You’re a guy, so of course you haven’t heard about mud.” “That’s garbage.” Zink’s upper lip rose, like he smelled bullshit. Tuesday’s eyes flared. That was her I’m going crack under pressure look. Mine shot to Koz and then back to her. You want that man, hold it together! "
85 " I’d die here if need be. That was the craziest part of knowing you were dying. It trimmed off all the should-haves and cut you right down to your essence. It was a gift of freedom, cursed with a lack of time. It made you think back to everything you’d done, every decision, every word, and see it in that harsh light. Some actions shone and some cast a dark shadow on your timeline. "
― Donna Augustine , Wyrd Blood (Wyrd Blood, #1)
86 " Everyone judged whether we admitted to it or not, usually saving the harshest criticisms for ourselves. "
― Donna Augustine , Fated (Karma, #3)
87 " What’s worse than dead? Is there a new ranking system in the Wilds I’m unaware of? "
― Donna Augustine , The Wilds (The Wilds, #1)
88 " Then I saw her—Lars’s guest—the one they called Faith. I wouldn’t have missed her. She still had patches of her human karma clinging to her new form. It was as if the brightest sunlight I’d ever seen was filtering through the leaves of a tree while she sat under it on a spring day. I’d never seen anything like it. "
89 " Time was funny like that. If you didn’t keep track of it, make the most of every moment, it could run away from you. "
― Donna Augustine , The Hunt (The Wilds, #2)
90 " That was the problem with burying your emotions for most of your life. When you had strong ones, it was hard to determine where they were coming from. "
― Donna Augustine , Savage One (Born Wild, #2)
91 " I've never been good at following directions. All you have to do is look at my Ikea bureau with the crooked drawers to figure that one out. "
― Donna Augustine , The Keepers Box Set (Alchemy, #1-4)
92 " took the slip from his hand and looked at the strangle symbols. "
― Donna Augustine , Keepers & Killers (Alchemy, #2)
93 " I wanted to tell her to stuff it. I was done with that crap. Hope wasn’t worth a damn. I didn’t say it, though, because the bed upstairs might’ve been the most comfortable thing I’d ever lain on. I’d tell her tomorrow as we were leaving where she could stick her hope, right after I ate some more of her roast for breakfast. Or maybe I’d say nothing. She seemed nice. I just wish she’d stop with all the good thoughts. I didn’t have time for that nonsense. "
94 " These days, I was holding myself together with whiskey and denial. I didn't have my whiskey and denial was having a bad day. I "
95 " Could you even kill a dead girl? "
― Donna Augustine , Dead Ink (Karma, #4)
96 " The biggest question she had was how do you rebuild a life when you aren't a person anymore? "
97 " She didn't like to brag about being homeless. She was humble like that. "
98 " For someone who had died not long ago, she felt more alive with him than ever. "
99 " He leaned forward, his lips grazing her ear before he spoke. "I know you want this too. I've seen the way you look at me. "
100 " We visited the unlucky in the hospital and went to funerals, always remarking on the tragedy. But every time we stepped too close to it, we saw our own demises. We went with the full knowledge that we would one day die as well. "