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Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1) QUOTES

Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1) QUOTES

1 " Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

2 " A young body, a young heart, and endless courage. That last part is the most important. Don’t let anyone tell you any differently. Why do you think we used to send so many kids your age off to war? "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

3 " You can learn a lot about a person through their dreams. It’s your subconscious, split open and bare for all to see. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

4 " When you wake up from a nightmare, the reality comforts you. When you wake up from the best dream ever, reality is a burden, a slap-in-the-face reminder that you could feel this, you could have this, but you don’t and you won’t. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

5 " ...seeing ghosts and demons just lends itself to listening to White Zombie and Slayer and Fantomas on repeat. One Direction and Selena Gomez are for the girls who don’t see dead people every fucking day. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

6 " I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

7 " Hell isn’t fire and brimstone. It’s New York City. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

8 " People say things are going to be Hell without even the slightest notion of what Hell is. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

9 " They say you’re only as old as you feel but try telling that to a ninety-year-old on their deathbed, just wishing he could do all the bloody things he wants to do. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

10 " I’ve seen him before you know. In real life.” “What? When?” I catch a twinge of hurt in her voice for not filling her in on it earlier. “When I was at Sephora,” I tell her. “So he’s a metrosexual ghost as well?” Dex asks. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

11 " I never realized how much I loved life until I knew it was being taken away. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

12 " I should have known what I was getting into with you.”
“Oh please,” I tell him. “I am a motherfucking delight. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

13 " Dex has always had an aura of cool about him but right now he could be just about any dork drooling over his idol. What a twatwaffle. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

14 " It’s impossible to not believe in God when you see all the good in the world. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

15 " You have a fight ahead of you, one that goes far beyond what you’ve seen in your dreams.”
Well fucking hell. “Please tell me some good news,” I whisper to him, my nails digging into my palm. “Your bedside manner sucks.”
“I’m your good news. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

16 " The normal I’ve always wanted to be will now never be reached. It was always in my grasp…but it’s just smoke in my hand. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

17 " The first rule of Hell is: don’t talk about Hell. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

18 " It’s funny how your mind can be open, expansive, to almost anything but when there’s a hard limit, something your brain can’t make that extra leap for, it all shuts down. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

19 " But the more time I spend with you . . . the more like you I become.” He pulls back and I’m left with that heavy, yet strangely flattering, confession. I’m not sure what I should say. So I awkwardly mumble, “Well, be prepared to become totally awesome. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)

20 " I tried to take a selfie or ten. Lame, maybe, but I hadn’t posted to IG in a few days now and since I actually make money from my account for posting things like my outfits, then it’s something I can’t really neglect, demons or not. “What are you doing?” Jay asks, leaning across the roof of the car and watching me curiously. I chuck the duffel bag a few feet from me to get it out of the shot and try another angle, holding the iPhone far above my head. A lone scraggly-haired man in his pajamas exits his room, heading to the vending machine. He looks at me like I have a screw loose. Whatever. He probably takes dick pics so he should know all about getting the right angle. "

― Karina Halle , Veiled (Ada Palomino, #1)