“How do you win when you're up against yourself?”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“They tell you you'll forget how it used to be. You'll get used to it, that it's better to move on. They don't realize you can't. You're not the same person anymore.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“My heart was glass--easy to see through, simple to break.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“Hana yori dango. Dumplings over flowers. It basically means that someone should value needs over wants, substance over appearance. As in, make sure you have food and shelter before you burn money on something extravagant. And, you know, choose genuine friends who will be there for you over pretty, shallow ones. Don't get carried away by beauty if it leaves you empty.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“He was fireworks and radiance, glare and tingling frostbite.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“Itterasshai.
Go and come back safely.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“I hope he draws for you.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“It doesn't matter what they do to me,' he said. 'It might even be better if they—stop me. But I need to know you're safe.'
'Oh, and so what you need is so important?' I spat, but really I was shaking at what he'd said. More like what he hadn't quite said. 'How can I know you're safe if I'm not here to save your pretty ass?”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“Just like in our kendo matches, where we only felt briefly safe with our shinai thrust between us, keeping each other at arm's distance was the only way to trust each other. That way, no one would lunge, and either of us could retreat.
We lived in parallel worlds, somehow held together by the axis of each other.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“Power is an ugly thing. Run from it while you can.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“Be angry, Katie Greene. Don’t forget how it was. Because there’ll always be a hole in your heart. You don’t have to fill it.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“Katie, I know it's your life. But please ... live it. Please live.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“There would always be a void. And my shoulders shook with relief that I didn’t have to fill it.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“There's a saying in Japan, and it has to do with cherry-blossom viewing: hana yori dango (Dumplings over flowers). It basically means that someone should value needs over wants, substance over appearance. As in, make sure you have food and shelter before you burn money on something extravagant. And, you know, choose genuine friends who will be there for you over pretty, shallow ones. Don't get carried away by beauty if it leaves you empty.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“una persona debería anteponer sus necesidades a los caprichos, la esencia a la apariencia.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“I'd had my suspicions, but they couldn't have prepared me for the truth.”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
“Which was safer, going forward or going back? I didn't know”
― Amanda Sun, quote from Ink
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“Okay," Crick said, rolling his eyes. "I give. Which part of my body is more interesting than my ass?"
Deacon rewarded his obtuseness with a smack to the head. "Your heart, you fuckin' moron...”
― Amy Lane, quote from Keeping Promise Rock
“P.S. I will give you a clue about the person I'm interested in. She gets a very cute dimple in her right cheek when she's trying not to smile. She has a very cute way of pronouncing th, and she wears a cute hat on cold days, which is like a French beret. I once had an appointment with her to Gaze into the Girl's Eyes, which she went and cancelled on me, and I've been waiting all term for a chance to Kiss the Girl.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, quote from The Year of Secret Assignments
“Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever.”
― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran
“Impossible. I merely brought the essentials. Clothes, my favorite boots, face cream, makeup, a few books to read, a couple cans of caviar, lingerie, and my coffeepot.
Plus a few other things a girl like me just can’t live without but can’t mention in mixed company because it would be indelicate. You know, because they’re sexual.”
- at “lingerie,” Hector and Dallas had stood a little straighter. At “sexual,” they’d moaned. Jaxon punched them both in the back of the head.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Dark Taste of Rapture
“Opening the door, he nearly did a double take into the mirror behind
him.
Hooch. Hooch, pushing his shades back up onto his head, and re-shouldering the bergan. Hooch, standing in the doorway.
“Been thinking.”
Two words, more than usual.
“Been around a bit.”
Six, speech worthy of a national holiday.
“Looking for a station now.”
Eleven, whole fucking fireworks.
"Central station.”
Thirteen, and the heavens came down for Matt.
“You still offering?”
Sixteen, and the world stopped spinning.
Matt stood thinking for a while, not a muscle in his face twitched. Then
stepped aside, gestured the other man to follow him. Closed the door.
“One condition.”
Hooch’s brows rose for a split second.
Matt broke into a grin at last, which threatened to split his face. “Promise
not to talk too much.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, quote from Special Forces
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