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1 " I want you to want me because you want me, not because of grief, not because he is not here. I want you to love me for me. I want you to kiss me first and not because you need me to help you, but because you need to kiss me. "
― Carrie Jones , Entice (Need, #3)
2 " You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger. "
3 " What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger. "
4 " You will be a great queen when you come back, you know. And someday you'll love me the way you love your wolf. "
5 " You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger. "
6 " Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it? "
7 " What we do,our choices, that's what defines us. "
8 " I told them he hit on me and that I was showing him my wrestling moves. I think they maybe believed it." I pull on my seat belt and roll down the window even though it's cold. I need to be able to smell for pixies. "We can't leave until everyone's out. I want to be sure nothing happens." "Did they really believe you Devyn asks.My breath whooshes out with the reality of it and I adjust my previous statement. "I don't think so.""Well there's another lovely complication." Devyn groans. "
9 " In Norwegian that would be 'hun ma dra. Kanskje er hun gravid.'" Astley sttempts to smile.i can't help teasing him. "Which? Asking to go to the bathroom or dissing me because I'm pregnant.""you are with child?" his eyes open wid, all mock terrified."No! Shut up. You know I'm not." I punch him in the arm and then lead him into the stairwell, shutting the door behind us. "Okay. Seriously, Astley, what happened to you? Why is your head bleeding? "
10 " Astley comes to my side. "Are you well?" "No," I tell him, voice hoarse. "I am not well. I am broken inside. I am broken almost all-the-way deep, and I don't know...I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again”. "
11 " Maybe,” he says slowly, as if each word is an effort, “she took advantage of me. "
12 " I am not 'most' and I am not 'people'. "
13 " Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it. "
14 " There are so many layers inside of people, so much soul pain and angsty depth and heart hurt, and some ... hide all this so well that when it comes out in an action as simple as a nod, your entire world shifts a little bit on its axis. "
15 " We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do , our choices, that's what defines us. "
16 " I stomp toward her and point. I've SO had it with her. "That is SO not nice."You don't even talk like a queen." She glares at me.Nick raises an eyebrow at me. "You're a QUEEN?"I walk to the edge of the bed, stand just a few inches away from her. Power rolls off of her. "Okay, please refrain from your insidious comments, which are obviously geared to inflict harm upon my psyche. I do not appreciate it."Nick cracks up. "Well, you ARE the same Zara. "
17 " I am not a good fighter," I try to explain again, fingering the edge of my shirt. "I mean, I am really bad at fighting, not as bad as my friend Issie, who is possibly the least fightery person in the world. I mean, I'm getting better, but still... I mean-- oh I'm sorry. I'm babbling. "
18 " It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering. "
19 " Know that I love you, that I always will love you no matter what choices you make, what paths you have chosen, and what paths you choose in the future. "
20 " If you don't believe something, then don't say it. Saying it only gives it power. ~Betty White "