“The heart is a weapon—a self-inflicting weapon—that if not trained properly, can destroy a person.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“But maybe people like me aren't supposed to be saved. Maybe I'm just destined to bear the weight of the demons that lurk among the good.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“And that's the moment when you realize that hopes and dreams are as fucked up as fairytales.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“They say when you take revenge against another you lose your innocence.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“I’ve never come across anyone like him. His intensity is entirely consuming, and when I’m not with him, all I can think about are ways I can sneak around to get to him. It’s like he’s the oxygen I need to survive, and when he’s gone I’m suffocating. I don’t know if love is supposed to feel this way, but it’s all I know, and it’s all with him.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“Whether or not you’re in politics, everything is political. We all save face for others to perceive us in the best light. Nothing is real until you break down the walls and reveal the ugliness.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“How you feel is how you allow yourself to feel.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“Because life is not a fairytale, but we all need that one person who keeps the dream alive. You are that person for me.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“That's the moment I realized hopes and dreams are as fucked up as fairytales”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“Weakness derives from the soul. Most everyone has one, which gives a woman like me leverage. Leverage to play people to my liking, and so I do.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“There’s something about a beautiful, nearly flawless flower, emerging from muddled water.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“His eyes are sharp as he says this, the intensity prevalent,”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“Soon the happiness will be enough to weaken the control the past has on you, and it won’t hurt as badly as it does right now.” “But”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“not to lose it. My thoughts rake at my heart, pricking tears that begin to puddle in my eyes.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
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“why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid.
Why try to make me like you?
Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle?
Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle?
Why do you scream when I do what I did?
Im a kid.”
― Shel Silverstein, quote from Falling Up
“It is cold in my cell. Outside, the harsh winds of February are blowing and I am told it has once again begun to snow. I sit on my cot, a blanket draped over my shoulders, and remember how the delicious heat had enveloped us like a cloak on the day we walked the streets of Livadia. To the north of that Greek town, there are two springs which were known in ancient times as Lethe and Mnemosyne. Forgetfulness and Memory. We drank from both springs, you and I, and then we fell asleep in the dappled shade of an olive grove.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.”
― Julian Barnes, quote from The Sense of an Ending
“No era sólo su aspecto lo que la hacía hermosa. La belleza no era una representación estética: era la esencia, el espíritu que la animaba. Se expresaba mejor a través del movimiento, de la conducta y del talento. Una mujer hermosa era una mujer dinámica y completa.”
― Jean M. Auel, quote from The Mammoth Hunters
“Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Reptile Room
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