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Outpost (Razorland, #2) QUOTES

Outpost (Razorland, #2) QUOTES

1 " Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

2 " It was a thing that could not be articulated or explained. It merely was, like the sunrise or a sheer and sudden drop to the giant water that had stolen my breath, where the land ended in the ruins. My love for Fade strengthened me, made me determined never to give up. I would follow him until the world stopped or until I found him. I believed love hadn’t weakened me or left me soft; instead it made me powerful, determined beyond all belief. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

3 " Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best.

-Deuce, (183) "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

4 " I resolved, then, deep in my soul never to let him go. I'd be the one never to leave him. I'd prove to him that some things could be for always- that we could be. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

5 " I want to drag you off and hide you away,” he whispered.
“Why?”
“I always knew you were beautiful, but now everyone else will too. I won’t be able to keep other boys away from you, and it’ll make me crazy. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

6 " Su aire de superioridad me irritó, pero aquella era su fiesta y yo era su invitada. Tenía educación suficiente para saber que no debía inmovilizarle el brazo a la espalda y aplastarle la cara contra el suelo. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

7 " Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

8 " If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

9 " Finally, I understood what else was going on. I might be slow, but given time, I put the pieces together. "You have no reason to be jealous, I promise. We talked... and trained. You're the only boy who gets close like this."
"Oh." A long, slow breath escaped him. "I feel so stupid."
I put my lips to his cheek and whispered, "Don't. I love you, Fade. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

10 " If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

11 " Did he die well?"
No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

12 " I swept down the stairs to find Fade waiting for me at the bottom. His dark eyes widened, and for the first time since I'd known him, he was speechless. He stared up at me like I was everything he ever wanted. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

13 " Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

14 " You can lick your wounds and miss me until you come searching for me... because you’re mine and I’m yours. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

15 " My common sense had already packed a bag, prepared to abandon me for the evening. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

16 " Stalker put his hands on my shoulders - and for a moment, his pale eyes blazed with the power of what he felt for me. The reflected head warmed me where I hadn't even know I was cold. Then his golden, spiky lashes swept down, veiling his thoughts. I shouldn't let this boy comfort me when I'd rejected him. Weakness made me selfish, but I didn't resist when he pulled me against him. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

17 " Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing."
"No," I said softly. "It just hurts because you wish it was you. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

18 " Edmund cleared his throat. "Pretty as a picture, isn't she?"
Fade only nodded. His hungry stare brought color to my cheeks, and I was conscious of the warmth of his fingers when he touched me. Just on the arm, but my skin was bare, and it felt shocking, intimate, too darking in front of my foster parents. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

19 " He was beautiful in a way that hurt me, but it was the sweetest pain I ever knew, better even than the scars I took on my naming day. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)

20 " People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up, because for some, a wrong answer is better than none. "

― Ann Aguirre , Outpost (Razorland, #2)