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The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1) QUOTES

The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1) QUOTES

1 " So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms.
"I'm not fallen," he said roughly.
"Then what are you?"
He shrugged. "Busted. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

2 " The only bone in my body he ever loved was his. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

3 " 'Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.' "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

4 " 'Being single...is about hope. It's about the future...the person you might meet at Starbucks or online or in the next aisle at the grocery store.' "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

5 " 'You love her without willing it or wanting it, and that is the most exquisite pain of all.' "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

6 " Charis sipped, smiling back. "...I saw God everywhere."
Grif narrowed his eyes. "Really?"
She nodded and leaned close. "We were actually pen pals. I'd write Him letters in Latin and leave them in my closet."
"Why the closet?"
She shrugged. "Because He didn't appear after I set my front yard's bushes on fire, so I decided He was shy. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

7 " 'It ain't ever over. You can't have no future if you don't have no past, and the past ain't never done with you...At the end of your life, all you have is what you know.' "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

8 " 'Sex drives us, love or no love. Power or no power. Money or no money. It's the most powerful drug in the world. Some pay for it. Some die for it.' "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

9 " ...Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

10 " Success, she [Evie] claimed, made people want to trust you. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

11 " Even now...she [Kit] still had a need to believe that most people, that most of life, was good. That belief was a sort of strength, too. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

12 " 'I scrape under a nail and I pull out dirt. I pull off an overlay and I smell urine. It's the rot of their lives seeping into their nailbeds, you see? They can fix their hair and paint their nails and run on a treadmill until they're anorexia's poster child, but they can't fix their lives...lives of rotting perfection.' "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

13 " 'Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.' "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

14 " But they weren't in an ideal world. And it was too bad, Kit thought, exiting the shop. Bridget might have talked to her if they were. Kit might have been able to trust her. And neither of them would have to fear a man with a whole different sort of thrust-corrupted, soured, rotting...and seemingly unstoppable. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

15 " Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too to find that while people were being ripped from her life like paper dolls from a chain, she longed to be the one who'd be gone first. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

16 " Even with tortured minds and broken spirits, even bound to the Surface, they ached for God's presence. It would be like being drawn back into the womb. It would be rest. It was the only real redemption there was. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

17 " 'Even pain is impossibly exquisite.' "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

18 " People created chaos, not places, and they were damned good at it no matter where they lived. And when this glittering gem of a city teamed up with the world's oldest profession, fantasy piled atop fantasy; it could convince anyone that impulse was a virtue, not a vice. "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

19 " I saw you, looking like Hayworth, making me want to pin you up, pin you down, take you for a different kind of ride altogether "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)

20 " ...you've been rooked. You know,you got the dust off. Killed. Murdered. Clipped. It's a rough deal, but you've had some good times, right? "

― Vicki Pettersson , The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1)