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81 " I don't believe there's a person ever been born on this planet who can't do something better than average. "
― Amy Cross , Days 9 to 16 (Mass Extinction Event #3)
82 " Most people can't handle the truth, even if their own minds are in their own brains, and even if their own brains are in their own bodies. "
― Amy Cross , The Madness of Annie Radford (The Asylum Trilogy Book 3)
83 " It's not enough, is it?" asks Isabella, who has come over to join me. "What?" I ask, immediately on edge. "Love". She smiles. "And sex. They're not enough. Sometimes, you just want affection, and that's the hardest thing to get from a man. True, honest affection. "
― Amy Cross , Broken White: The Complete Series (The Broken Trilogy, #2)
84 " there are people in this town who work very hard to sanitize the history of the place. "
― Amy Cross , The Farm
85 " Books are so much more reliable than people. "
― Amy Cross , The Spider
86 " Alcohol is the only way to keep from dying of boredom. "
87 " He might have kept himself together in life, and affected a certain degree of class, but in death he wears the same gormless idiocy that I saw many times during my time in the city's rougher parts. As it turns out, a dead gentleman looks very much like a dead thief. Perhaps all men, having suffered a violent death, ultimately look more or less like this. Perhaps death levels us all. "
― Amy Cross , Doctor Charles Grazier (The House of Jack the Ripper, #6)
88 " I can hear the world outside, but I know the world can't hear me. "
― Amy Cross , The Raven Watcher (The House of Jack the Ripper, #7)
89 " A baby can do such wretched things to one's body, but that doesn't mean one must just sit back and become an unsightly blob, does it? There is such a thing as personal pride! "
― Amy Cross , A House in London
90 " natural world is so powerful, it could easily scrub us from the map if it wanted. "
91 " I spot something glinting in Josh's right hand and I realize that somehow he's managed to get hold of a pen lid. It's small and made of plastic, but the tip looks sharp enough to tear through human flesh. "
― Amy Cross , The Printer From Hell
92 " You're already soaking wet. "
― Amy Cross , Meds (The Asylum Trilogy, #2)
93 " Sometimes, I feel as if everyone in this family has managed to come up with a great reason why they shouldn't have to lift a finger. I guess, at the end of the day, they all know that I'll pick up the slack and make sure that nothing awful happens. "
― Amy Cross , The House We Haunted
94 " I kept hoping I'd wake up and find that Jon had returned, but each time I opened my eyes I simply found that I was still in the car, with Julie still driving. And "
― Amy Cross , The Dog
95 " realize that my leg is shaking again. I stop it, but still, "
― Amy Cross , The Art of Dying (Detective Laura Foster Book 2)
96 " I hope I didn't hurt you". "
― Amy Cross , Days 1 to 4 (Mass Extinction Event #1)
97 " So he just sits up here?" I ask. "This old fucking Nazi just sits up here and waits for what? Death?" "Don't be so insolent," Nurse Winter replies. "This man deserves a certain degree of respect. Don't dismiss him, just because he dared to do the dirty work that the rest of us preferred to ignore. "
― Amy Cross , Asylum (The Asylum Trilogy, #1)
98 " Once upon a time, there was a girl who was the bravest girl who ever lived. "
― Amy Cross , The Girl Who Never Came Back
99 " The part of him that gave him his unique scent is gone, which means that he's gone. "
100 " People who doubt me,” Kirsten said firmly, “have a habit of dying. "