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Come Alive (The Cityscape, #2) QUOTES

Come Alive (The Cityscape, #2) QUOTES

1 " What are you thinking?” he asked in a disarmingly gentle tone.
“That the city looks different depending on whom I’m seeing it with.”
He nodded easily, as if this same thought had occurred to him.
“I notice different things,” I continued. “Like with you, I pay more attention to the details of the buildings – the textures, the colors, the people standing in front of them. The reflections are different.”
“Reflections?” he asked quietly.
“They are.” I watched our bodies morph and distort in the window of an empty bank. “You’re there,” I said. “That’s how they’re different. "

― Jessica Hawkins , Come Alive (The Cityscape, #2)

2 " Of all the men, and ashamedly, that included Bill, David was the one who I felt in my core, as though I only existed as an extension of him. I wanted to fall just so he could catch me. "

― Jessica Hawkins , Come Alive (The Cityscape, #2)

3 " I’m not a religious or spiritual man. I am guided solely by my instincts, my gut. And they have led me to you. Without you, I have nothing to believe in. "

― Jessica Hawkins , Come Alive (The Cityscape, #2)

4 " You make this decision, and we're in it together. I will be your shield. "

― Jessica Hawkins , Come Alive (The Cityscape, #2)

5 " Seeing David was a full-body experience. I felt heavy and light at the same time. He gives me butterflies, but they aren’t butterflies. They’re bigger and darker and scarier, like crows. They’re dangerous. "

― Jessica Hawkins , Come Alive (The Cityscape, #2)

6 " After what felt like an eternity, he turned slowly. Pain etched his face. For a heartbreaking moment, I thought I was too late. But then he stepped forward, and suddenly I was running. He opened his arms, and I jumped, and I was home. "

― Jessica Hawkins , Come Alive (The Cityscape, #2)