“It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you’d lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“She knew, now, that there was always light—beyond the dark, and the fear, out of the depths; there was sun to reach for, and air and space and freedom.
There was always a way up, and out, and no need to be afraid.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“She thought all you needed to do - all any of them needed - was to get out. But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.
The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“How do I know I can trust you?' she said finally.
'That's the thing about trust.' He crunched an ice cube between his teeth. 'You don't know.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“when you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you’re happy and it’s easy.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“The Bravery was in moving forward, no matter what. Someday, she might be called on to jump again. And she would do it. She knew, now, that there was always light--beyond the dark, and the dear, out of the depths; there was sun to reach for, and air and space and freedom.
There was always a way up, and out, and no need to be afraid.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“No one should be allowed to be happy when you were so miserable – especially not your best friends. It should be a law.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“Funny how people could be around you for so many years, and be so off the mark.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“I'm scared all the time," she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't," Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“She felt as though, just for a second, she had understood something vastly important, had had a glimpse of it: love, pure and simple and undemanding.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“If people changed, it meant that she was allowed to change too. She could be different.
She could be happier.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“He sprayed on a bit of this man’s body-spray thing his mom had gotten for free at Walmart, feeling like a douche, but thinking it was better to feel like a douche than to smell like an asshole.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“You want everything to be shitty... So you have an excuse to fail.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“she might be dying. The idea pleased her.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“You know what your problem is? You want everything to be shitty. You have a sister who loves you. Friends who love you. I love you, Heather.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. The promise was always in the possibility.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“He wasn't afraid. He just didn't care. And that was very, very different.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“She knew, now, that there was always light – beyond the dark, and the fear, out of the depths; there was sun to reach for, and air and space and freedom.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“It was the final, explosive demonstration of summer, the line in the sand, a desperate attempt to hold fall forever at bay. But autumn nibbled the blue sky with its teeth, tore off chunks of the sun, smudged out that heavy veil of meat-smelling smoke.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“Their eyes were flat, incurious, and old- impossibly old, as though instead of looking forward, their eyes saw back to a distant past.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“Maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“This was what true fear was- that you could never know other people, not completely.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
“They had their own language, their own jokes. They were constantly touching each other too – pushing and shoving, pinching and hugging, like kids flirting on a playground.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Panic
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“The author called us to re-examine assumptions bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome. Just as a bridge built by the Roman Empire might have held up tolerably for centuries under foot traffic but crumble under the weight of a modern truck, the author cautions that classical thinking had limits exposed by contemporary events and certainly exposed by the modern world.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, quote from How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“The front door of the Flippant Witch gave a series of loud clicks and swung inward. Renard Lambert, his blue-and-purple finery resembling a plum in the twitching lanterns, practically hurled himself through the open doorway
“Widdershins!” he called loudly, cape flowing behind him, “I—gaaack!” He ducked, barely in time to avoid the carafe that shattered loudly against the wall just behind his head. The tinkling of broken glass, a dangerous entry chime indeed, sounded around him.
“Oh,” Genevieve said, her tone only vaguely contrite. “It's just your friend. Sorry, Renard.”
“Sorry? Sorry?! What the hell were you—ah. Um, hello, ah, Widdershins."
Widdershins, who had lurched to her feet as the door opened, was suddenly and forcibly reminded by Renard's stunned stare that Genevieve had disrobed her in order to get at the rapier wound. Blushing as furiously as a nun in a brothel, she ducked behind her blonde-haired friend and groped desperately for her shirt.
“Didn't mean to take your head off, Renard,” Genevieve said, mainly to distract him. “But you rather startled us.”
“Quite understandable,” the popinjay responded absently, his eyes flickering madly as he fought to locate some safe place to put them.”
― quote from Thief's Covenant
“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.”
― Philip Roth, quote from My Life as a Man
“I can't think when you're in here," he said.
"What do you have to think about?"
"Making!”
― Judy Blume, quote from Superfudge
“Quentin found it hard not to blame her doctors, and especially her father, for not being open-minded enough to at least consider the possibility that there had been nothing wrong with Diana from the beginning. But they hadn't. Faced with the inexplicable, with experiences and behaviors they didn't understand and were frightened by, they had acted swiftly, with all the supposed knowledge of modern-day medicine, to "fix" her "problems."
Even before she hit puberty, for Christ's sake.
And they had left her only half alive. A pale, colorless, vague, and passionless copy of the Diana she was meant to be.
Christ, no wonder she looked out on the world with wary, suspicious eyes. Finally off all the mind-numbing medications, Diana was clearheaded for the first time since childhood. Truly aware for the first time of the world around her. And not just aware, but painfully alert, with the raw-nerved sensitivity of most psychics.
She knew, now. No matter what she was willing to admit aloud or even consciously, she knew now that she had been kept half alive, less than that. Knew that those she had trusted most had betrayed that trust, even if they had done it in the name of love and concern and with all good intentions. They hadn't kept her safe, they had kept her doped up and compliant. They had sought to hammer away all the sharp, unique edges that made her Diana.
So she could be healthy. Like everybody else.
It had been in her voice when she'd told him, a haunted awareness of all she'd lost.
"I'm thirty-three now. You do the math."
He thought it must have been like waking from a coma or a hazy dream to find that everything that had gone before had not been real. The world had turned, time had moved on... and Diana had lost years.
Years.”
― Kay Hooper, quote from Chill of Fear
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