“If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?"
"Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Intertwined
“Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Intertwined
“I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Intertwined
“If he had to have strange powers, Aden wished they could have been more like hers. That voodoo voice would have made his life a lot easier; he could have sent certain people (cough Ozzie cough) away with no memory of him.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Intertwined
“anymore time in that black hole and ill go insane.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Intertwined
“Tucker palideció.
—Vas a morir por eso.
—Oh. Qué listo —dijo Aden, y aplaudió—. Una amenaza de muerte. ¿Y sabes lo más gracioso? Que ni siquiera es la primera que recibo hoy.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Intertwined
“Ella negó con la cabeza.
—No podemos gustarnos el uno al otro. No podemos ser amigos.
—Me alegro, porque no quiero ser tu amigo. Quiero ser algo más.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Intertwined
“My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Iron Queen
“She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Runaway Jury
“Babe, nice lingerie is for seducing a man. I’m already fucking seduced.”
― Samantha Young, quote from On Dublin Street
“Look...Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. And the Scenes Gone By and the Scenes to Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface. So don't sweat it. For focus simply move a few inches back or forward. And once more...look.”
― Ken Kesey, quote from Sometimes a Great Notion
“Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?”
― James Fenimore Cooper, quote from The Last of the Mohicans
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