“Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“You can live without me."
"I don't want to."
I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“If this is the last time, let me say it so you never forget. I will always love you, Deuce. No matter where souls go, mine will be looking for you, solnyshko moyo."
"No. I want a promise instead. Promise you'll fight like you never have, so when the dying stops, you'll be on your feet looking for me here."
"I swear.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don't understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“When people stop writing down their stories, the soul of the world is lost.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid."
"Not that, just very focused on killing.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“I knew exactly how he felt because I had walked in his shoes, wary and distrustful, unable to believe anybody could care about me without asking for something in return.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“That looked like love to me, when you put a brave face on your heart breaking because it was what the other person needed.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“Do you miss him?” he asked. “Every day.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“...but I wished I could convince her that she didn't have to be anything in particular to be worth saving.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“If this is the last time, let me say it so you never forget. I will always love you, Deuce. No matter where souls go, mine will be looking for you, solnyshko moyo.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“I feared a love like this—that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“the world's all razors, that cut you no matter what you do.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“...as if prayers ever put out a fire.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
“At least you're taking action. Every big thing starts small.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Horde
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“the killer question: “If I didn’t already own this, how much would I spend to buy it?”
― Greg McKeown, quote from Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“Here in the hills the rain washing down my face feels good. I lift up my head and open my mouth and let the water in, it is sweet, pure and sweet. I shield my eyes and look in the direction of the town, invisible behind the torrent of water. Let it run, I think, through the streets, down the gutters, into drains until it is carried away by the river. Let it wash away the shit and the pus and the blood, the things that can be washed away. But let it also wash away the fear and the malice and the spite, the things that are harder to erase.”
― Aminatta Forna, quote from The Hired Man
“Never take what's offered, always ask for more.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from A Gathering Light
“But I had begun to sense a truth inside myself: if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then what's it all for?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quote from The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
“Here." Sam came over, stripped down to his boxers. "Hunch forward and put your head down."
Robin looked at him. "My safe word is monkey.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, quote from All Through the Night
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