“This is how I think of time: the past is Before, and the present is the After. Before was reality; the After, a nightmare.”
― Demitria Lunetta, quote from In the After
“All of Them are monsters, but not all monsters are Them.”
― Demitria Lunetta, quote from In the After
“I’d always escaped into books, but now reading had become something more. It allowed me to be somewhere else, to feel something else, not just the numbness that overtook my body and made me wonder if I was still alive.”
― Demitria Lunetta, quote from In the After
“Gareth once told me that ignorance was bliss and I’d responded that ignorance was dangerous. We were both right. But which is better?”
― Demitria Lunetta, quote from In the After
“You don't mind giving up your freedom?"
Vivian tilted her head. "You always have to give up some freedom to live in any society.”
― Demitria Lunetta, quote from In the After
“Doesn’t he know there will always be someone out there who wants to destroy good?”
― Demitria Lunetta, quote from In the After
“People don’t expect a small Japanese girl to be able to break a man’s arm.
“They didn’t assume you were a ninja?”
― Demitria Lunetta, quote from In the After
“Everyone works because everyone is important.” To me this sounded like a great way to spin forced labor.”
― Demitria Lunetta, quote from In the After
“People don’t expect a small Japanese girl to be able to break a man’s arm. “They didn’t assume you were a ninja?”
― Demitria Lunetta, quote from In the After
“You were in the city," Rice explained, "High concentraition of Floraes, hardly any post-aps. In other areas, where there was less population density, children were the ones more likely to survive. Adults probably kept them concealed, took extra measures to protect them. And of course children are good at hiding. Once their instinctual survival skills kick in, they know how to be quiet."
"They believed in monsters before the monsters showed up," I wispered.”
― Demitria Lunetta, quote from In the After
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“It was more as if they recognize they were two halves of a whole who'd found their missing.
Matt and Rachel”
― Leila Meacham, quote from Roses
“But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.”
― Marcel Proust, quote from In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
“There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air means that there's probably at least one other horse standing behind the horse you're looking at; and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from I Shall Wear Midnight
“However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.”
― Johnny Cash, quote from Cash
“She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
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