“One day, Reed,” I begin dabbing at his cheek again, “you and I will get in the car and just drive. We’ll wander from silver cities to golden coasts.” I use an alcohol swab to clean the blood from his cheek. “We’ll sleep when we’re tired. When we wake, I’ll find a way to make you laugh and I’ll live in the sound of it.” My throat gets tight because I long for that day to be now. “We’ll find somewhere you’ve never been and we’ll make it ours—fill it with memories of us. That’s what I want.” I finish with the alcohol swab. Leaning close, I gently blow on his healing wound to ease the sting. Reed takes my hand and brings it to his lips, kissing it tenderly. “And when we get that sleep, there will never be a your side or a my side of the bed—we’ll always meet in the middle. And when I hold you there, in our bed, you’ll let me rest my lips here.” Reed lets go of my hand to move his”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Iniquity
“I could no more leave you than the earth could leave the sun. You’ll always draw me back to you,”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Iniquity
“I raise Reed’s crushed, gray feather into the air. With my dying breath, I utter a single word in Angel, “Champion.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Iniquity
“I’m the light to his darkness. There’s no escape; he’s a part of me.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Iniquity
“You’re my air, Evie. Without you, I drown in breathless sky.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Iniquity
“Brennus grins as well. “Och, ye have ta luv me brudder; he’s so cheeky. He was always da favourite.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Iniquity
“Reed doesn’t back down. “She’s my mission. That couldn’t be more plain to me if it were written in the stars.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Iniquity
“I recognize Brennus’ Faerie armor; it holds the long battle-axe that he gave to me. I walk to the armor and touch it. It feels cold and lonely—the most extraordinary things usually are. It’s the consequence of being timeless.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Iniquity
“The debt to iniquity—to wickedness?” I murmur aloud.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Iniquity
“What does he need?”
“We don’t know. What we do know is he couldn’t kill you. The magic wouldn’t touch you. We believe it’s because of the ring you wear.”
“Can this ring protect Evie if I give it to her?” I try to tug the ring from my finger. It won’t move; it’s as if it is bonded to my flesh and bone.
“We attempted to cut it from you while you were unconscious. The Power who touched it ascended. Do you know why?”
“Heaven wants my help.”
“Yes. You’re not just Evie’s champion; you’re Heaven’s champion as well.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Iniquity
Amy A. Bartol
Born place: in The United States
Born date November 16, 2018
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“Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope.”
― Victoria Hislop, quote from The Island
“James grabbed one of the curtains and used it to wipe the dog crap off his leg.”
― Robert Muchamore, quote from The Recruit
“What do you seek--God? you ask with a smile.
I hesitate to answer, since all other Americans have settled the matter for themselves and to give such an answer would amount to setting myself a goal which everyone else has reached--and therefore raising a question in which no one has the slightest interest. Who wants to be dead last among one hundred and eighty million Americans? For, as everyone knows, the polls report that 98% of Americans believe in God and the remaining 2% are atheists and agnostics--which leaves not a single percentage point for a seeker. For myself, I enjoy answering polls as much as anyone and take pleasure in giving intelligent replies to all questions.
Truthfully, it is the fear of exposing my own ignorance which constrains me from mentioning the object of my search. For, to begin with, I cannot even answer this, the simplest and most basic of all questions: Am I, in my search, a hundred miles ahead of my fellow Americans or a hundred miles behind them? That is to say: Have 98% of Americans already found what I seek or are they so sunk in everydayness that not even the possibility of a search has occurred to them?
On my honor, I do not know the answer.”
― Walker Percy, quote from The Moviegoer
“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”
― Adam Smith, quote from The Wealth of Nations
“When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!'
Christ what an image.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
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