“Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.”
“I'd be a monster fighter who rode the bus. It didn't get any more bad-ass than that.”
“You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.”
“Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.”
“They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.”
“If there is no trust, there is nothing. Trust is all.”
“All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.”
“And he had it all over Octavian, let me tell you. Hung like a Pegasus, he was.”
“How can you interpret the behavior of others when you're a mystery to yourself?”
“a bright sun darkens, a full moon wanes, a full cup overflows, and decay follows prosperity”
“To get someone to follow them, a Siren would most likely appear as that person's deepest desire. The thing they wanted most. Cole's had become me, only it wasn't me as the queen, which I assumed would've been what Cole wanted most. It wasn't even me as an Everliving.
It was me, simply as me.”
“Humanity is evil -- civilization is the scum that forms on the surface, but beneath, humanity consists of brutes and animals.”
“No one told me you can love someone and still be miserable. How is that possible?”
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