“What can I say? Payback’s a bitch. But here’s the thing: So am I.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“Ridley Duchannes. Is there even one stupid tiny little part of you that loves one stupid tiny little part of me?”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“There are only two kinds of Mortals in the backwater town of Gatlin, South Carolina—the stupid and the stuck. At least, that’s what they say.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“But when you’re in love, you’re not in control of what you think or say or do. And there is nothing I love more than control, and nothing I love less than not having it. So you tell me —what is a person like me supposed to do with a feeling like that?”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“Link held up a spoon. “Bend this fork with your mind.” “It’s a spoon.” “Trick question.” Sampson grabbed it and crushed it in his hand. Link swallowed. “So you think with your fists? Good to know.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“I hate and I love. You ask why I do this? I do not know, but I feel and I am tormented. —CATULLUS”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“No,” she said suddenly. “It’s not a cage, Nox.” She put her hand on his shoulder. “Love is an open door.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“Sure, Lena gets the credit for being the most powerful Caster of all time. Whatever. It doesn’t make me any less excellent. Neither does her too-good-to-be-true Mortal boyfriend, Ethan “the Wayward” Wate, who defeats Darkness in the name of true love every day of the week.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“It’s all a matter of perspective. Here’s mine: I’ve been called a lot of things, but what I really am is a survivor—and while there are more than a few stupid Sirens, there are zero stupid survivors.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“Let’s get something straight: I’m supposed to be the bad guy. I will always disappoint you. Your parents will hate me. You should not root for me. I am not your role model.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“There was a special place in Hell for guys like Lennox. It was called life.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“But you could control her.” “Of course. I’ve got the oldest power of all—an obscene amount of money.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“No, she certainly is not. She would burst into flames if she set one foot on a good Christian campus, and don’t you forget it.” “Jesus loves everyone, Mom.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“When I kissed you, I tasted fire. I don’t know what it means. I thought you should know.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“He looks like ambition, she thought. He looks like danger.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“Not even the most powerful Natural in a millennium had seen him coming.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“You must be really proud of yourself for pulling that one off.” His eyes didn’t waver from her face. “I’m almost never proud. They say it goes before a fall, and I’m not planning on falling.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“This wasn’t how they talked. They threw things at each other. Insults, jokes, sometimes even remotes. They made war and made peace and made up and made out. They didn’t do things like set ground rules. They didn’t do feelings talk. They didn’t get it out in the open.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“Just for a minute,” she said. He’s not half bad, she thought, as far as princes go. “Just to watch the sunset,” he agreed. He’s not half bad, she thought, as far as enemies go. “Just to see the stars,” she conceded. This isn’t half bad, she thought, as far as wars go. “Just one day,” he said. “You promised.” And just to take another look at one small photograph hanging on the wall, she thought. Lennox Gates, what is your Siren story?”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“A troubled Necromancer. An Illusionist with a secret. An Incubus marked for death. A Darkborn in hiding. A Siren with a past.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“When it came to relationships, the truth never set anyone free. The truth only set things on fire.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
“If Link and Ridley openly admitted that they were still fighting, it would mean openly admitting that they still cared. If they openly admitted that they still cared, it would mean openly admitting to things like feelings. Feelings implied all sorts of gushy, messy, fuzzy complications.
Feelings were how they'd gotten into this fight in the first place.
Disgusting.
Ridley would rather have Link stab her through the heart with a pair of gardening shears than admit to any of those things.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Dangerous Creatures
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“إن قدر العبقري في منظومة المعرفة الإنسانية هو مذهل حقا. هؤلاء المعذبون الذين اصطفاهم الله، والذين قُدّر لهم أن يهدموا باسم الحركة وإعادة البناء، يجدون أنفسهم في حالة متناقضة ظاهريا من التوازن غير المستقر، المتقلب بين التوق الى السعادة والإيمان الراسخ بأن السعادة، بوصفها واقعا أو حالة محتملة، هي غير موجودة. فالسعادة مفهوم تجريدي، معنوي. السعادة الحقيقية، السعادة السعيدة، تكمن كما نعلم في التوق إلى تلك السعادة التي لا بد وأن تكون مطلقة: ذلك المطلق الذي نتعطش اليه.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, quote from Sculpting in Time
“Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“The love of a good man, for a good woman. The love of good friend for each other. The love of parents for children, and children for parents. The love of brothers and sisters. The memory of joy and grief, which all becomes joy when enough time has passed. This is the treasure that I have won through all the years of my journey through this life.... And every bit of it I'll take with me beyond the grave. I'll meet God then... and I will take all these treasures and lay them out before his feet, for God can see them easily even if mortal man cannot. And I'll kneel before the treasures and say, "O God, I thank thee for giving these to me during my life on Earth. No daughter has been better loved than I, nor any wife, nor any mother. I never deserved them. They were not mine by right. But I hope that, having been given such gifts so undeservingly, I used them well, and gave back to thee a life that was worthy.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Sarah
“The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel; of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a prince among them.” —Numbers 13:1-2”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Kill Artist
“Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, quote from 2010: Odyssey Two
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