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41 " You look like a pretty, soft, breakable Barbie. You fuck like a monster. "
― Karen Marie Moning , Feverborn (Fever, #8)
42 " Immortals. Pains in the asses, every one of them. "
43 " Maybe it was silent because it was gone. Maybe my lake had swallowed it and neutralized it. I was inundated with maybes lately. Limp noodley things you could do nothing with. "
44 " he fucks with the single-minded devotion of a dying man hunting God. "
45 " Said he had more immediate problems than the fate of the world and he was sure we’d figure it out, considering how controlling and micromanaging Ryodan was about everything he owned—and as he believed he owned the entire world and everything in it, and could play with it all like his personal chess set—the bastard would surely find a way to patch things up to his liking. He "
46 " Ah, the painful truth: Fate was a cosmic toilet. It was the nature of the universe to flush sluggish things that failed to exercise free will. Stasis was stagnancy. Change was velocity. Fate—a sniper that preferred a motionless target to a dancing one. "
47 " Rioting begets violence begets rioting. I sometimes think the entire human race is comprised of barely restrained animals, avid for any excuse to tear off their masks of civility. And here I am, always trying desperately to keep mine on. "
48 " linear. "
49 " You can fall in love again; most people do—but you can never replace a sister. "
50 " Nothing was easy. Every move, each decision, a matter of life and death. It made for interesting times. Small human lives were so limited. And for that very reason, so fascinating. Shadowed by death, life became immediate. Intense. "
51 " Was he that diabolical? "
52 " I am stretched on your grave and will lie there forever… "
53 " Loci. Latin for ‘places.’ Mnemonic device for managing memory. Simonides, Cicero, Quintilian all "
54 " Life isn’t a bloody comic strip, kid,” Ryodan said coolly. “Yes it is,” he said, “and we get to write our own script, so be epic or vacate the page. You’re all taking this way too seriously. "
55 " A phone? "
56 " How dare anything tamper with our innate structure? Who the hell was it to decide what was right and wrong with us? "
57 " Some people—who haven’t lost someone they love unconditionally and more than themselves—think a year is plenty of time to get over the trauma of their death and you should have fully moved on. Fuck you, it’s not. "
58 " The unlead are always fickle. "