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Ferocious (Vicarious, #2) QUOTES

Ferocious (Vicarious, #2) QUOTES

1 " Monsters don’t get happy endings. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

2 " I laugh as an unfamiliar feeling envelops me. I think it might be happiness. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

3 " We’re like magnets, you know. Only I’m spinning, so I keep pulling you in and then pushing you away. I like you, but then you hurt me, so I run. I like you, but then something makes things feel impossible, so I turn away. And you. You’re so constant. Your orientation never wavers. You feel what you feel and you want what you want without hesitation or doubt. God, I envy that. I feel like if someone stripped away my hesitation and doubt that there’d be nothing left. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

4 " I think about the way Baz teased me earlier, how he wanted to know what it felt like to have someone who would do anything for me. Maybe it sounds comforting to know there is a person out there who would risk his life to protect you—a person who would back off when you asked and then come to you when you changed your mind. Especially when that person is as kind and decent as Jesse. The truth is, it’s terrifying. It’s just one more opportunity for me to be a monster. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

5 " Jesse stirs again. This time his fingers twitch. As much as I want to see him open his eyes, I can’t be here for that. It’ll make leaving him too hard. I turn toward the doorway and I’m outside in the main room of the ICU when I hear his weakened voice say, “Winter?”

I hurry back to the waiting area. Hopefully he’ll think he dreamed me. Maybe he did. Sometimes I feel like I’m not even real anymore "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

6 " I remember a time when all I wanted was a gun and to learn how to use it. I thought a gun would make me feel safe. I thought a gun would make me feel powerful. But right now I just feel . . . heavy. Like I live in this world of death and destruction and I’ll never escape alive. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

7 " How do you make me smile when it seems like there’s nothing in the whole world to smile about? "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

8 " Killing someone is different in practice than it is in theory. There are factors you can’t prepare for, feelings in the moment where you’ll question everything you thought you knew about yourself, other feelings that might follow you long after the deed is done. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

9 " My name is Winter Kim. Today I killed a man. Soon I hope to kill another. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

10 " Jesse and I might as well be caught in a snow globe. Tonight is just a single perfect moment trapped in glass. Tomorrow our protective bubble will be shattered. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

11 " There are so many different ways for someone to say your name. I’m not sure I ever realized that before I met Jesse. Prior to him, it was just Rose calling out to me with love and affection or Gideon relaying his quiet approval or disapproval. Crisp, clear notes. When Jesse says my name, it’s a chord, a mash-up of several intense emotions all reflected in two syllables. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

12 " Beyond the snowy trees, the endless high-rises of Seoul have faded to a blurry gray shadow, but their presence hasn’t dwindled. Even in the poor visibility, there’s no denying that the city feels like the walls of a fortress, a fortress that is both protecting us and trapping us. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

13 " Seoul is a city of layers and Jesse peels them back with his penetrating gaze, taking in the glitzy Western bars, the alleys sloping upward into cramped housing developments, the doorways leading to dark hallways that lead to offices and noodle shops the casual observer would never even know existed. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

14 " It’s no small thing—ending someone else’s life. There should be some sort of gravity to that, shouldn’t there? My insides are heavy, but it has nothing to do with what I did. It is only about what I have lost. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

15 " Love is the kind of thing you have to nurture and care for. You can’t just lock it up in some faraway place if you want it to last. "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)

16 " There is something intoxicating about ending a life, about wiping bad people off the face of the earth. But it’s also a dark and deadly pull. After all, who am I to decide who lives or dies? "

― Paula Stokes , Ferocious (Vicarious, #2)