“There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“I never belonged anywhere until I met you.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“... Where did you go?”
“Down below.”
“Ugh,” she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.”
Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw.
...
I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. “I’m Deuce, animal from the underground.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination.
That would have to do.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“I admired Stalkers style. He was incredibly fast using two small blades strapped to the backs of his hands. Slash slash slash. Fighting him you wouldn’t die of one great wound but instead bleed out slowly surprised to find yourself weak and dying after a thousand cuts.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“Don’t let them see you weak.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“And maybe what I meant when I said that about Deuce is I don't want to do without her.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn’t always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted the smallest tasks. Some whispered it would be a kindness to kill him, but they meant they didn't want to see their futures written in his skin.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“He bent his head and brushed my lips with his. His hair spilled against my forehead, sleek and startling. Shock held me immobile, shock—and something else. Part of me wanted to lean into him.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“Nobody would ever be like Fade. That much, I knew.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“I never felt beautiful unless I was fighting, and even then it was something that went beyond skin and bone into the kinetic joy of successive movements. Kick, thrust, slash. I never doubted Fade at my back. I never faltered.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“I refused to show my fear. Lock it down, Huntress.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“I think it says, 'Color will not fade.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
“A shiver ran through me. Freaks looked almost human -- and weren't. They had lesions on their skin, razor-sharp teeth, and claws instead of fingernails. I'd heard you could detect them by smell, though in the tunnels, that could be hard.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
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“It was in this situation that she penetrated as a vague shape into the existence of Thomas. Everything there appeared desolate and mournful. Deserted shores where deeper and deeper absences, abandoned by the eternally departed sea after a magnificent shipwreck, gradually decomposed. She passed through strange dead cities where, rather than petrified shapes, mummified circumstances, she found a necropolis of movements, silences, voids; she hurled herself against the extraordinary sonority of nothingness which is made of the reverse of sound, and before her spread forth wondrous falls, dreamless sleep, the fading away which buries the dead in a life of dream, the death by which every man, even the weakest spirit, becomes spirit itself.”
― Maurice Blanchot, quote from Thomas the Obscure
“To help wake up every day, I try to tell myself that I’ll get over Violet eventually, because time is supposed to heal all wounds or some stupid shit like that, but it seems like time is having the opposite effect on me. The wounds have become infected and their seeping through my body and rotting me from the inside out.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Probability of Violet & Luke
“The feeling of pain never leaves. With every beat of my heart, I am reminded that it remains. It festers within me like an infection. Life’s antibiotic for pain associated with how we feel is communication.”
― Scott Hildreth, quote from Broken People
“Sal pushed down on the knife, forcing it in to the hilt, making himself stone for her sake. He held it until Maggie’s heart ceased to beat, until the vibrations in the knife’s handle stopped.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It's so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? Those are important questions, I guess. But they're not that important. You know what's important? Who would you die for? Who do you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you? Whose drunken nose would you pick?!”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
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