“His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. But you can put your arms around me anyway.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“A hunter in love with his prey.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“You want to go out?" he asks suddenly.
I blink. "As in a date?"
"Yes. That's what a guy usually means when he asks that question.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“Why do you care? I've ignored you for days."
His smile fades. He looks serious, mockingly so. "Yeah. You got to stop that.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“What good is safety if you're dead inside?”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“I stare into his eyes, I shake my head, sorry for the chance we lost. The chance we maybe never had. But not for saving him. I would do that again, no matter the cost.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“After running for my life from hunters, a girl with too much lip gloss doesn't register on my fear radar.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“I remember you. You were like burning firelight in that cave, all shimmery, dancing color." I lean closer over the island, mesmerized by his words, his hand on my face. If he keeps talking this way, he's going to see me like that again. "Tell me you thought about me. That you think about me now."
"I thought about you," I whisper, "I've never stopped thinking about you." Somehow I doubt I ever will.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“I'll find you. I will. We'll be together again.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“I will never see him again. Never know why he let me go. Never learn if he really whispered what I think he did. Beautiful.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We're long overdue.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“I won't leave you! Do you know how unbearable it's been without you? You're not like the rest of them." His hand swipes through air almost savagely. I stare at him, my eyes wide and aching. "You're not some well-trained puppy content to go along with what you're told. You have fire." He laughs brokenly. "I don't mean literally, although there is that. There's something in you, Jacinda. You're the only thing real for me there, the only thing remotely interesting.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“He turns slightly... and smiles. Just a small smile, but lovely. Sexy.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“I like your sister. A lot."
I look at him dumbly.
He looks at me, lowers his voice to say, "I like you.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“What question?" I ask, breathless.
"Whether you're as beautiful in the morning as you are during the rest of the day.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“In this, with him... I'm as close to the sky as I've ever been.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“He feels it, too. His eyes widen. A lovely hazel. Green with flecks of brown and gold. The colors I love. The colors of the earth.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“I wont let him have you.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“See you soon (but not soon enough).”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“In my mind, I see Will. Think how he has become the mist, the sky, everything, to me. I do more than survive here. I love.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“I have Will. Here, he's my way back to the sky.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“He steps onto the sidewalk and rocks on the balls of his feet. He looks beautiful standing there, and a familiar ache starts in my chest as I wonder how I can love and fear the sight of someone with the same intensity.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
“He couldn't live without being a draki, and I couldn't live without him.”
― Sophie Jordan, quote from Firelight
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“At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuse to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Man in the Dark
“Although a few legends tell of Callisto welcoming Zeus with open arms, most of the versions have Zeus resorting to trickery. In these versions, knowing that Callisto was completely devoted to both Artemis and her vow of chastity, Zeus appeared to the nymph as the goddess Artemis herself while Callisto lay resting under a tree. Once Callisto’s guard was down, Zeus abandoned his disguise and used force against her. To make matters worse, Callisto ended up pregnant from the encounter. Fearing Artemis’ legendary wrath, Callisto tried to conceal her condition but finally was no longer able to one morning when all the nymphs bathed together in a forest glade. Furious that Callisto betrayed her vow (even though by most accounts Callisto hadn’t done so willingly), Artemis turned her into a bear, which she then hunted down and killed. In other versions, Callisto was still allowed to give birth to her son, Arcas, who in turn encountered his mother in her bear form and killed her. In yet other versions, Artemis was on the verge of killing Callisto when Zeus interfered and placed her in the sky where she can be seen as Ursa Major. (Interestingly enough, Riordan’s Artemis takes credit for placing Callisto in the sky herself.)”
― Rick Riordan, quote from Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
“There are just as many bitches out there as bastards. Equal opportunity asshole-ism.”
― Kelley Armstrong, quote from Waking the Witch
“Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.”
― Eric Wilson, quote from Fireproof
“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully until the very minute that she'd written about it, as if each story was one she told herself and her readers, at the same time.”
― Lisa Scottoline, quote from Look Again
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