“You are about to meet your first vampire, Aurora. I’ll warn you, he’s no Edward Cullen.”
― Nikki Jefford, quote from Aurora Sky
“when my lips flew open I could only think of one thing. “You injected me with a virus!”
― Nikki Jefford, quote from Aurora Sky
“Peter, as in Peter Pan. Pretty fitting, really. Dante was like a boy who never grew up. At least he wasn’t calling himself Van Helsing and me Buffy. Might not go over too well with the undead crowd.”
― Nikki Jefford, quote from Aurora Sky
“since departed. I did a quick book and binder grab, then sprinted to math. The warning bell rang as I hurried in and took my seat beside my”
― Nikki Jefford, quote from Aurora Sky
“Yeah, I find it interesting that there’s a boy in the girls’ locker room. So you had that sex operation, did you?”
― Nikki Jefford, quote from Aurora Sky
“But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused to believe -- that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children. . . .”
― Thomas Pynchon, quote from Gravity's Rainbow
“He loves so wholly. It is his nature. He blinks, then tries to find the right response. "I-" he stumbles. "I'm so afraid, June. So afraid of what might happen to-" I put two fingers against his lips to hush him. "Fear makes you stronger," I whisper. Before I can stop myself, I put my hands on his face and press my mouth to his.”
― Marie Lu, quote from Champion
“There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but every one of us. Shukhov squeezes everything he can out of a mouthful of soup or a bite of bread…So frozen that he can’t even feel his feet, he trowels cement and lays a cinder block wall with care and patience…Shukhov takes pride in his work. In fact, even though he is starving, he can barely tear himself away at the end of the long day to go eat. He cares about his work and in that way he remains a man. Isn’t this kind of pride and gratitude and ironic detachment valuable for all people?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quote from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
“Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.”
― Tom Robbins, quote from Jitterbug Perfume
“A bird in the hand loses its mystery in no time flat.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, quote from Prodigal Summer
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