“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
“Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Anne's House of Dreams
“Jerome shrugged. “We’re back to the part where I don’t give a fuck.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Succubus Revealed
“We must be polite, Syen,” he says. He’s still smiling, but he’s furious; she can tell because he’s flashing too many teeth. “We’re only orogenes, after all. And this is a member of the Stillness’s most esteemed use-caste. We are merely here to wield powers greater than she can comprehend in order to save her region’s economy, while she—” He waggles a finger at the woman, not even trying to hide his sarcasm. “She is a pedantic minor bureaucrat. But I’m sure she’s a very important pedantic minor bureaucrat.”
― N.K. Jemisin, quote from The Fifth Season
“I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“Do you think it's funny that both of our favourite memories are about the people we like the least now?" I ask.
"Maybe that's why we dislike them," she says. "The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.”
― Nicola Yoon, quote from The Sun Is Also a Star
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