“The last thing I wanted was to fall in love
because, deep down, I remembered that love hurt.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Sky, you can't ignore this!" He stood under the street lamp, sleet settling in his hair, hands fisted at his side. "You're mine - you have to be.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“You lit me up like Vegas”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Victor patted my hand. 'I like you, Sky. You're a fighter.'
'I am, aren't I? Hear that, Zed? No more bambi comparisons. I'm a Rottweiler -with a temper.'
'A very small Rottweiler,' said Zed, still not convinced.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it.
'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“What were we talking before I was so rudely interrupted by a flying citrus ?”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“like Belgian chocolate—absolutely sinful and completely irresistible’.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Yeah, well, not many boys take their girls out on a duck shoot with them as target for a first date. You have to give me points for style.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Excuse me, Mr Tall-and-Good-looking Wolfman, but can you help the English midget reach the sauce?’ I think not.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Did you know that chocolate had special chemicals in it to make you feel happy?"
"I don't need an excuse for chocolate.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“I...I'm sorry to come like this,' I murmured.
'Stop being so damn British about it-you don't need to apologize. Ssh, it's fine.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“I really, really like you, Sky. But if I don't stop now, your dad will kill me and that will be the end of a beautiful friendship.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“If I'm a tuning fork, you're the perfect A, making me hum.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“I'm a big boy. I can take it.
You got into a fight.
I'm also stupid.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“What’s nefarious?’
‘I don’t know, but my grandma accuses me of having them when she thinks I done something bad and it sounds good.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“You’re a bright girl, aren’t you? No pun intended.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“She looked fragile. Alone. Prisoner in the room through the mirror; an Alice who never made it back through the looking-glass.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“I'm not afraid of the dark.
I am. Humor me.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Get out of here. Yoda so does not have an English accent!'
'Other than that you're saying I'm a dead ringer?'
'If the shoe fits.'
'Sheesh, I hate tall girls.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Yeah, really scary," agreed Zoe, struggling not to laugh. "Like Bambi with an Uzi.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Think about it: the chances of meeting your other half are tiny. Most of us are doomed to knowing there's something better out there but we can't discover it.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“They grabbed me and up I went. My shriek probably could've been heard in England. It certainly brought the basketball coach and the rest of the boys running in the belief that someone was being brutally murdered.
I don't think Mrs. Green will be picking me for the squad.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Fine, I'll teach you,'
'Besides, there's only so many times a girl wants to fall on her butt in front of the boy she's out to impress.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Wisdom you speak, Obi Tina.'
'None of that - I'm the one who gets to speak backwards - no, we're both wrong - that's the little green guy, Yoda.'
'You're right. So I just get to pout and act badly when you try and teach me anything.'
'Try channelling Luke rather than Annakin - the outcome is better.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“Zed : Penguins, such fascinating creatures, but I didn’t know you were studying them. What class is that you’re taking?
Sky: The ‘we-stupid-looking-creature-should-stick-together’ class.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“I shuffled to the back. ‘You there—new girl. I can’t see you.’ Precisely: that had been the idea.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“-Nosotros,querrás decir -me corrigió mientras reía
-.Si tu don estuviera en libertad, brillarías como yo lo hago cuando estás conmigo.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
“-Nosotros,querrás decir -me corrigió mientras reía-.Si tu don estuviera en libertad, brillarías como yo lo hago cuando estás contigo.”
― Joss Stirling, quote from Finding Sky
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“When I listened to her play I felt I should not be in the same room with her. There were hundreds of people but nobody left. It was a private pain. By private I mean to say unknowable. Only the music knew and it held secrets so that her playing was a puzzle, a whisper, and people afterward stood in the bar and drank and said nothing because they were complicit. There were no words.”
― Miriam Toews, quote from All My Puny Sorrows
“I laid the side of my face on his back, hugging him close. “Nothing feels right without you. Not school or home,” I cried. “Everything is just giving me enough air to get to the next day without you. I never stopped being yours.”
He dropped his head back, letting out a sigh.
I swallowed, taking my chance. “I love you, Jared. I’ve always loved you, and I will always love you.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Aflame
“In actual fact, creatures like Sabine and myself were the guilty ones: rather than approaching their kin and comforting one another, they loved beyond their means - they needed individuals a thousand miles from their own complexes, they needed Christas, radiant and seductive personalities. And then they were astonished that their friendships turned out badly, as though anything like that could possibly work, a panther with a mouse, a shark with a sardine.”
― Amélie Nothomb, quote from Antichrista
“If you were a fanciful person, you might have said that it was almost as if that box was looking for Hiccup.
But we are not fanciful people, and that would be ridiculous.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Be a Pirate
“There is serenity and calm under the water's surface. You move easily and glimpse a world you have never seen before. You think of running out of oxygen and the idea of sharks dart out at you. You sense that there is something treacherous hiding behind every reef; no matter how much you explore you won't ever know what it is.”
― Jerzy Kosiński, quote from The Devil Tree
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