“No. In my eyes, she was most beautiful because at a time when she had every right to be terrified, she managed to show comfort to another person who needed it.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“I know an excuse when I hear one. Don't you dare deceive yourself into believing that you're the victim, Derek Novak.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“Because I don’t believe that you are a slave to what you’ve become. I don’t believe that you simply can’t.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“What's on your mind, Derek? she whispered.
"You..." I saw no reason to lie "...how I can't imagine life without you.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“What is it with these people and shoving me up against hard surfaces?”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“I realized that the whole time I was holding this beautiful stranger in my arms, feeding on her, it felt like I was betraying Sofia.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“I’ve always found myself completely attuned to all five of my senses, but that night, I was to all but one. My sight was blurred by the tears I was fighting to hold back. I couldn’t appreciate the exotic scene around me. All I could think about was the disappointed expression on my best friend’s handsome face.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“I had only myself to rely on. And that, I thought, was the most frightening aspect of my predicament. After all, how could I rely on someone I couldn’t trust?”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“The younger will rule above father and brother and his reign alone can provide his kind true sanctuary.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“If my goal in life was to not go insane, this sure was not helping me meet my objective.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“I’d expected to wake up to a pitch-black night… Instead I woke up to her.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“From the moment I got here, all I’ve wanted to do is escape and go back home, but Derek…” She leaned toward me and placed a gentle kiss on my cheek. “You’ve begun to feel like home.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“In the middle of his performance, it dawned on me that this was exactly the effect Derek Novak had on me; one way or another, he always took my breath away.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“I know an excuse when I hear one, Sofia. Don’t you dare dupe yourself into believing that you’re the victim.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“Most people who have LLI do end up going crazy, Sofia … unless they have a high enough IQ to handle it. You’re one of those lucky few.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“With Sofia, it felt like I’d finally found my compass. I knew that as long as I had her, I had someone to keep me grounded, someone to direct my way. If only for Sofia, I had a reason to stay awake.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“I know an excuse when I hear one. Don’t you dare deceive yourself into believing that you’re the victim, Derek Novak.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“She was beautiful because, at a time when she had every right to be terrified, she managed to show comfort to another person who needed it.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“he saw me the way nobody else did. I”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“With Sofia, it felt like I’d finally found my compass. As long as I had her, I had someone to keep me grounded, someone to direct my way.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“Wherever this place called “The Shade” was, I had no allies. No”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“I knew he was going to kiss me and if I were to be honest with myself, I wanted it to happen. But I pulled away.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“That night, just before I drifted off, I realized why. It was because I was certain that if I ever gave in to him in that way, if I surrendered to that kiss, I wouldn’t be able to keep myself from falling for him.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“I was going to drive that stake through his heart to protect the woman I loved.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“I love you too much to leave everything hanging like this.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“there was something different about Derek Novak. Even”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
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“It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.”
― quote from The Story of the Lost Child
“Humor is the most faithful supporting actor in a tragedy. So”
― Herbjørg Wassmo, quote from Dina's Book
“These are among the people I've tried to know twice, the second time in memory and language. Through them, myself. They are what I've become, in ways I don't understand but which I believe will accrue to a rounded truth, a second life for me as well as them.
Cracking jokes in the mandatory American manner of people self-concious about death. This is the humor of violent surprise.
How do you connect things? Learn their names.
It was a strange conversation, full of hedged remarks and obscure undercurrents, perfect in its way.
I was not a happy runner. I did it to stay interested in my body, to stay informed, and to set up clear lines of endeavor, a standard to meet, a limit to stay within. I was just enough of a puritan to think there must be some virtue in rigorous things, although I was careful not to overdo it.
I never wore the clothes. the shorts, tank top, high socks. Just running shoes and a lightweight shirt and jeans. I ran disguised as an ordinary person.
-When are you two going to have children?
-We're our own children.
In novels lately the only real love, the unconditional love I ever come across is what people feel for animals. Dolphins, bears, wolves, canaries.
I would avoid people, stop drinking.
There was a beggar with a Panasonic.
This is what love comes down to, things that happen and what we say about them.
But nothing mattered so much on this second reading as a number of spirited misspellings. I found these mangled words exhilarating. He'd made them new again, made me see how they worked, what they really were. They were ancient things, secret, reshapable.The only safety is in details.
Hardship makes the world obscure.
How else could men love themselves but in memory, knowing what they know?
The world has become self-referring. You know this. This thing has seeped into the texture of the world. The world for thousands of years was our escape, was our refuge. Men hid from themselves in the world. We hid from God or death. The world was where we lived, the self was where we went mad and died. But now the world has made a self of its own.”
― Don DeLillo, quote from The Names
“What a glorious boy
he had meant to be to her. Ah, Peter, we who have made the great
mistake, how differently we should all act at the second chance. But
Solomon was right; there is no second chance, not for most of us.
When we reach the window it is Lock-out Time. The iron bars are up
for life.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy
“I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.”
― Aleister Crowley, quote from The Book of Lies
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