“I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“Goodbye, Ash. You were the best-and worst-thing that ever happened to me.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“This is hard...
Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“Every day. I have to show you every day what you'll mean to me. That's on me. And we'll get there. This-- you-- are important to me. I'm going to make sure you know that at all times.' -- Ash”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“He also knew that this woman was different from all the women who'd come before her. That part scared the shit out of him and excited him all at the same time. What if she was the one? That woman who, when a man saw her, he was instantly struck with the knowledge that he was done for. Like Mia was for Gabe. Like Bethany was for Jace. The one.' -- Ash”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“Wait just a goddamn minute, Josie. We're not finished. No way in fuck I'm giving up that easy. You're worth fighting for.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“His heart was in the right place even if he went about it all wrong.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“I don't want you to ever be touched by the gray areas I'm immersed in, baby. I want you clean. I want you to shine, just like you always do.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“Falling in love is the easy part. It's everything else that happens afterward that's hard and takes work.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“Then it's too bad I don't belong to you.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“I think you know I want you, Josie. I certainly haven't made it a secret. But you also need to think about all I would take. I take a lot. I give more, but I take everything.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“You're not going to lose me. Never that. I'm always going to be here.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“I'm too much of a 'do it my own way and fuck the rest of the world' kind of guy.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“Yeah, it's you. It suits you. I wanted something to match your eyes, but I also wanted something that reflected your personality. Your vibrancy.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“And that makes Mia sad. But it's okay. She'll have Bethany. And me.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“If you're asking me if I have blood on my hands then yeah, no doubt.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“He wanted to tie her to him in ways she'd never escape. But they'd be the most loving, silken ties in the world.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“You don't want me. How could you? You know nothing about me.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“I'm more concerned with what you think.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“She's not just any woman. I don't know, man. She hits buttons that a woman have never pushed for me.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“Pink is you. Definitely your color.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
“I won't lie to you, Josie. So becareful what you ask.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Burn
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“So, the fire giant. Fifty feet tall. On fire. Completely on fire, from head to foot. Carrying two swords. Flaming, of course. Matt barely had time to think before the Jotunn turned his way. He would say it looked at him, but for that, he'd need to see actual eyes. It had a mouth apparently, though, which opened and breathed ... yep, fire.”
― K.L. Armstrong, quote from Thor's Serpents
“So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, to feel no compunction, with your own hand to throttle down whatever ghostly life remains in you.”
― Franz Kafka, quote from The Complete Short Stories
“In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. I would think a former employee of the federal government could grasp that concept.”
― Blake Crouch, quote from Wayward
“The key point is that these patterns, while mostly stable, are not permanent: certain environmental experiences can add or subtract methyls and acetyls, changing those patterns. In effect this etches a memory of what the organism was doing or experiencing into its cells—a crucial first step for any Lamarck-like inheritance. Unfortunately, bad experiences can be etched into cells as easily as good experiences. Intense emotional pain can sometimes flood the mammal brain with neurochemicals that tack methyl groups where they shouldn’t be. Mice that are (however contradictory this sounds) bullied by other mice when they’re pups often have these funny methyl patterns in their brains. As do baby mice (both foster and biological) raised by neglectful mothers, mothers who refuse to lick and cuddle and nurse. These neglected mice fall apart in stressful situations as adults, and their meltdowns can’t be the result of poor genes, since biological and foster children end up equally histrionic. Instead the aberrant methyl patterns were imprinted early on, and as neurons kept dividing and the brain kept growing, these patterns perpetuated themselves. The events of September 11, 2001, might have scarred the brains of unborn humans in similar ways. Some pregnant women in Manhattan developed post-traumatic stress disorder, which can epigenetically activate and deactivate at least a dozen genes, including brain genes. These women, especially the ones affected during the third trimester, ended up having children who felt more anxiety and acute distress than other children when confronted with strange stimuli. Notice that these DNA changes aren’t genetic, because the A-C-G-T string remains the same throughout. But epigenetic changes are de facto mutations; genes might as well not function. And just like mutations, epigenetic changes live on in cells and their descendants. Indeed, each of us accumulates more and more unique epigenetic changes as we age. This explains why the personalities and even physiognomies of identical twins, despite identical DNA, grow more distinct each year. It also means that that detective-story trope of one twin committing a murder and both getting away with it—because DNA tests can’t tell them apart—might not hold up forever. Their epigenomes could condemn them. Of course, all this evidence proves only that body cells can record environmental cues and pass them on to other body cells, a limited form of inheritance. Normally when sperm and egg unite, embryos erase this epigenetic information—allowing you to become you, unencumbered by what your parents did. But other evidence suggests that some epigenetic changes, through mistakes or subterfuge, sometimes get smuggled along to new generations of pups, cubs, chicks, or children—close enough to bona fide Lamarckism to make Cuvier and Darwin grind their molars.”
― Sam Kean, quote from The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
“Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?”
― Stephen Hawking, quote from A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
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