“You can overcome anything...short of death.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“I love you... I don't want you to ever question it. I'd give up my life for yours. That's how much I love you. Don't you dare ever doubt that.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“I never planned on falling for you. You were just an assignment. But it just sort of happened and now... There's not a single thing I would change about you. When you smile, my entire world stops. All I see is you. I need you.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Shhh..." He grips me closer to his body and then softly whispers in my ear, "I'm about to kiss you, and once I start I won't be able to stop. Just thought I should warn you.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“I wasn’t actually sleeping, more like daydreaming with my eyes closed.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“He takes my face into his hand, and reassures me. "So outside of these walls, we can't stand each other.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“The last thing I want is for you to be afraid of me. But I want you to trust me. I need you to trust me." He sighs and I hear the pain and confusion in his voice.
"Why?"
"I don't know why and it scares the hell out of me." He swallows hard...
Part of me screams for him to run for his own safety, but I don't want him to move. My heart begs... Please stay with me. Forever.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“I don't want to die, but at the same time, I wish I were dead.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Treat everyone equal. We are all born the same and die the same.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Just leave me," I whisper in his ear.
"Never.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“All I want is to help you heal. To hold you when you cry. To glue you back together when you break apart. I want to reach out my hand and help you back up.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“You’re amazing just the way you are. There’s not a single thing I would change about you. When you smile… my entire world stops. And all I see is you. I need you, Lexi.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“what point do they believe what’s been branded on their skin instead of just knowing who they are inside?”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Most of all, I wish for peace. If I survive this, all I want is to live with Cole and to live in peace for the rest of my life, knowing I made the right choice.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“It doesn't matter now. What's done is done. It's in the past, so let's leave it there. Plus, if we could rewind time and fix our mistakes, we'd never learn from them. Right?”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“No matter how this world changes, you can survive.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“To the outside, I'm filth now. I'll never be allowed to return to the life I knew. No one ever does.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Why the hell are you wearing it on your left hand? I swear to God, if you're married I'm going to kick your ass. I'm not joking.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Why the hell are you wearing it on your left hand? I swear to God, if you're married I'm going to kick your ass. I'm not joking.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“You’re all I think about. My mind is constantly consumed by you, and it scares the hell out of me.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: LUST — BLUE GLUTTONY — ORANGE GREED — YELLOW SLOTH — BLACK WRATH — RED ENVY — GREEN PRIDE — PURPLE”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“So we’ll take one day at a time, because each day is one day we didn’t have before.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“You can overcome anything short of death”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“At times, I want to explode like a bomb or give in to my animalistic instincts like the others. But my father raised me better. He’d”
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“I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.”
― Caitlin Moran, quote from How to Be a Woman
“And no matter how much the gray people in power despise knowledge, they can’t do anything about historical objectivity; they can slow it down, but they can’t stop it. Despising and fearing knowledge, they will nonetheless inevitably decide to promote it in order to survive. Sooner or later they will be forced to allow universities and scientific societies, to create research centers, observatories, and laboratories, and thus to create a cadre of people of thought and knowledge: people who are completely beyond their control, people with a completely different psychology and with completely different needs. And these people cannot exist and certainly cannot function in the former atmosphere of low self-interest, banal preoccupations, dull self-satisfaction, and purely carnal needs. They need a new atmosphere— an atmosphere of comprehensive and inclusive learning, permeated with creative tension; they need writers, artists, composers— and the gray people in power are forced to make this concession too. The obstinate ones will be swept aside by their more cunning opponents in the struggle for power, but those who make this concession are, inevitably and paradoxically, digging their own graves against their will. For fatal to the ignorant egoists and fanatics is the growth of a full range of culture in the people— from research in the natural sciences to the ability to marvel at great music. And then comes the associated process of the broad intellectualization of society: an era in which grayness fights its last battles with a brutality that takes humanity back to the middle ages, loses these battles, and forever disappears as an actual force.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, quote from Hard to Be a God
“You’re my world, babe. Mine. Not theirs. They can have me, but they can’t have you, too…. I meant it when I said forever… You are it for me… The me that is standing in front of you right now is not the same me that’s out there in the spotlight… They only get the outside, not the inside. That’s for you.”
― Tina Reber, quote from Love Unrehearsed
“We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.”
― Kelley Armstrong, quote from The Rising
“History is natural selection. Mutant versions of the past struggle for dominance; new species of fact arise,and old, saurian truths go to the wall, blindfolded and smoking last cigarettes. Only the mutations of the strong survive. The weak, the anonymous, the defeated leave few marks: field-patterns, axe-heads, folk-tales, broken pitchers, burial mounds, the fading memory of their youthful beauty. History loves only those who dominate her: it is a relationship of mutual enslavement.”
― Salman Rushdie, quote from Shame
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