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Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3) QUOTES

Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3) QUOTES

1 " I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

2 " Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

3 " There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn’t notice that the heart is gone. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

4 " People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

5 " Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

6 " My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

7 " I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

8 " He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

9 " Love can make us do dreadful things. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

10 " Don't worry he tells me tenderly. It doesn't matter who you've been, who you are, or who you become. I'm with you every step of the way. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

11 " I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

12 " Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

13 " This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and sacrifice. Don’t lose hope. We’ve faced the darkness before—it has nothing new to teach us. As we go about our lives, let us remember the example Dr. Navarro set for us. At the right time, anyone can be a hero. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

14 " Mother Mary," he breathes. "How you shine."
I shake my head. "The light is yours. Right now you can't see it because you sit in shadow, but all I do is reflect you. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

15 " The ship shudders as we make the leap, passing into grimspace. Pleasure spikes through me, as if I'm taking a hit of my favorite chem. It sings through my veins, echoing the mad whorl of colors outside the view screen. If I had to describe it, I'd say it's like entering the heart of a dying star. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

16 " I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don’t always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don’t with a fair amount of specificity. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

17 " These are not my people.” The neutrality of the vocalizer makes his words more poignant for their lack of vehemence. “This is my race, but these are not my people.” I don’t know what to say to that, but he goes on, so I don’t need to deal with my inadequacy. “I left here because I did not fit. I traveled, but never did I . . .” He pauses, as the translator seeks a word—or perhaps he is thinking. “Belong. In more turns than you can imagine, the closest I have ever come to a home is with you, Sirantha. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

18 " The dark breaks wide in fragile rays. Dawn on Ithiss-Tor is more subtle than other sunrises. I have lost count of the worlds where I have stood and watched the light rise, peeling away the sky, sometimes in quiet colors, and sometimes in raw, violent slashes, as if the goddess I don't believe in has cut her veins. And sometimes, as on Gehenna, the sky changes not at all, just endless night, or endless brilliance--and after a time, the constant uniformity makes you feel as if you are the thing that must give way. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

19 " I’ll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)

20 " You can love somebody without loving what they do. I wish that hadn’t been necessary, and I wish you weren’t so fucked up over it, but seeing what happened on Lachion didn’t change anything for me. Not really. "

― Ann Aguirre , Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, #3)