“All things worth having are worth fighting for.”
“Most people would say that being in love was the best feeling in the world, and to some degree, I would agree with them, but not when all you could think about was losing it or watching something awful happen so that your heart shatters into a thousand tiny, jagged little pieces. No, being in love was more frightening than gratifying.”
“Because I’m in love with you. Because I love my life with you in it. Because a world where someone as special as you lives, can’t be the horrible place I once thought it was.”
“Don’t worry, Ashton, he can’t hurt me anymore, no one can. I have nothing left to lose,” I said honestly.”
“I’ve given you the power to kill me and you don’t even know it.”
“What we want and what happens are two different thing entirely.”
“The alcohol induced memory loss is a form of protection from all the stupid things you did the night before.”
“All things worth having are worth fighting for,”
“This girl and this baby were my world, and the only things I needed out of life. I just hoped I could somehow make them as happy as they both made me.”
“Well, he told me you were a flirt who would try and get me into bed, but damn, I didn’t realise you’d start before nine in the morning.”
“In the moonlight, he looked devastatingly beautiful.”
“It was an unfamiliar sensation to me, but I knew what it was. It was love.”
“Music was a college attendee's survival essential; he'd need that to keep himself sane.”
“My sixteenth was anything but sweet; it was more like the passage into hell on earth.”
“shocked expressions, but Ashton looked incredibly angry.”
“lives. In some cultures, it’s even considered to be the start of passage into womanhood. My sixteenth was anything but sweet; it was more like the passage into hell on earth. March 12 was the day my dreams died and my life was sent into a downward spiral of pain, grief and terror. My sixteenth birthday”
“Right now I was standing in the cold of the night, queuing for admittance outside club Ozone – unknowingly waiting for my traumatic ordeal to begin.”
“Come to us and quackle and quank.
Relieve us of our stirrings
With your fangs so sharp and bright
Take this blood that's always purring.
Through our hollow bones it flows
To each feather and downy fluff.
Quell the terrible, horrid urge that so often prinkles us,
Still our dreams, make slow our thoughts
Let tranquillity flood our veins.
Come to us and drink your fill
So we might end our pains.
- The Owls at St. Aegolius calling to the bats”
“Many a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he becomes a raging fury.”
“You're wrong Heinrich. While it might seem easy to believe, you and I aren't actually the same. You've been fighting someone else's war, you've been obeying orders, you've been carrying out a part in his plan. You've served other people all your life, for a goal that you won't even see accomplished: that's your defeat.”
“My diagnosis," he said
"for better or worse,
is that your son is the result
of an old pharaoh's curse.”
“he also discovered a correlation between their opinions and the conviction with which they stated them. It seemed that the less someone knew, the more forcefully he tried to state his case.”
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