“Their smiles are lies.
Most smiles are.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“Planning is not my friend. Impulse is.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry - There is a lot, oh, there is a lot - and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I am the ocean we lived on for two months. I am empty. I am nothing.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I could have kisses like that for the rest of my life. Kisses that don't know who I am. Kisses that make me feel more and less than what I am. But my finger tap tap taps on my leg and reminds me that I am not who Adam thinks I am, and it makes me want to cry. It's not that I don't deserve his kiss. It's that the person I am can never really share a life, a soul, with the person he is.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does anyone give a crap?" I mutter.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertson’s ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I turn and walk out, knowing exactly how many steps will take me away from that monster. Once again wishing I were Fia, Fia who could have killed him with her bare hands.
Fia who is impossible broken because she can do just that.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“- "Control what an interesting word for you to be dwelling on"
- "I have other words" I scream the F-Word in my head, over and over again.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I am so filled with wrong I don’t remember what right is.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I am the predator in any situation. I am not worried.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I push through to where it is the thickest, where it is the loudest, where you can feel the music in your teeth, where it overpowers your heartbeat, where it takes over. I don't want my own heartbeat tonight. I want it to pulse and pump outside of me.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“And that he knows what I did and he still sat next to me and laughed and told me I had the prettiest eyes he'd ever seen but that I was far too young for him to kiss until he had had at least three more drinks.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“Still, I will protect Annie. She is the only person in the world who loves me. She is the only person in the world who would never use me. She is my anchor, the chain around my ankle, the thing that means it doesn't matter what James does or who he is - I will still be his because I will always be Annie's.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“He is never more beautiful to me than when he is livid.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“To burning my father to the ground.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I’m nobody. I’m collateral damage with a lot of training.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I don’t want to think about things like normal and safe, things I can’t have.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“Silly. Dark isn’t scary. Dark is safe.”
“Why?”
“I live in the dark all the time. But when it’s dark outside everyone has to be there, too. And if you can’t see someone, they can’t see you, either.”
She sniffles a few times. “So, it’s like I’m hiding in the dark?”
“Yes. You’re the secret when it’s dark. Dark is safe.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“Give my love to the kids," I shout as the door closes, and I've never seen that shade of red on a face. It's quite lovely, actually, I should aim for it more often.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“Everyone here is insane. I am the insanest of the insane.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“She's a monster." Ms. Robertson
Clarice, small laugh: "But she's out monster.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“They know I have no choice, but if I did, they’d all be dead.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I am James's but he is not mine.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I’ll take care of her.”
“She’s not yours to take care of.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“After a song or three or seven, James pull me closer.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“My bed is massive (I drown in it, and it doesn’t matter how big the bed is, my nightmares more than fill it)”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
“I’m your big sister. I don’t have to see anything to know James is always something bad.”
Fia snorts. “You wouldn’t think so if you could look at him.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Mind Games
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“I’m learning that “myth” doesn’t mean what I thought it did. It really means, “based on truth” and the truth is terrifying.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Indebted
“As it moves closer, Galen can make out smaller bodies within the mass. Whales. Sharks. Sea turtles. Stingrays. And he knows exactly what’s happening.
The darkening horizon engages the full attention of the Aerna; the murmurs grow louder the closer it gets. The darkness approaches like a mist, eclipsing the natural snlight from the surface.
An eclipse of fish.
With each of his rapid heartbeats, Galen thinks he can feel the actual years disappear from his life span. A wall of every predator imaginable, and every kind of prey swimming in between, fold themselves around the edges of the hot ridges. The food chain hovers toward, over them, around them as a unified force.
And Emma is leading it.
Nalia gasps, and Galen guesses she recognizes the white dot in the middle of the wall. Syrena on the outskirts of the Arena frantically rush to the center, the tribunal all but forgotten in favor of self-preservation. The legion of sea life circles the stadium, effectively barricading the exits and any chance of escaping.
Galen can’t decide if he’s proud or angry when Emma leaves the safety of her troops to enter the Arena, hitching a ride on the fin of a killer whale. When she’s but three fin-lengths away from Galen, she dismisses her escort. “Go back with the others,” she tells it. “I’ll be fine.”
Galen decides on proud. Oh, and completely besotted. She gives him a curt nod to which he grins. Turning to the crowd of ogling Syrena, she says, “I am Emma, daughter of Nalia, true princess of Poseidon.”
He hears murmurs of “Half-Breed” but it sounds more like awe than hatred or disgust. And why shouldn’t it? They’ve seen Paca’s display of the Gift. Emma’s has just put it to shame.”
― Anna Banks, quote from Of Triton
“He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.”
― Scott Lynch, quote from The Republic of Thieves
“If one man or woman is willing to obey God, it can change the destiny of millions.”
― D.C. Talk, quote from Jesus Freaks: Stories of Those Who Stood for Jesus, the Ultimate Jesus Freaks
“KM: Yes. Mrs. Lopez, she's human. And you know, clearly, she'd like people to show some appreciation for her hard work. But if people just, you know, take her pie and don't even say, "Hey, nice pie," they just scarf it down or whatever-
MH: I could see how that would get to be annoying. I mean, if you're constantly providing...pie. And getting no positive feedback-
KM: Right! And what about your future? I mean, how do you know people are still going to want your pie in the future? Supposing they become a famous rock star or something. People are going to be offering them pie all over the place. If they haven't promised only to eat your pie, well, where does that leave you?”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Boy Meets Girl
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