“Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“We each have a story. They did this to us. There was no outside aggressor. They wanted an Apocalypse. They wanted the end. And they made it happen. It was orchestrated - who got in, who didn't. There was a master list. We weren't on it. We were left here to die. They want to erase us, the past, but we can't let them.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“-Se supone que solo te quedarías con nosotros por tu propio bien, por razones egoístas. Me dijiste que tenías una.
-Y la tengo.
-¿Y cuál es?
-Tú eres mi razón egoísta.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“I prefer true over happy now.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“Recuerdo que lo feo es lo que hace que lo bonito sea bonito.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“—Es bonita la cicatriz —le dice el chico.
El corazón le da un vuelco y se lleva la cabeza de muñeca al pecho.
—¿Bonita? Es una cicatriz.
—Es una señal de haber sobrevivido.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“Los niños quieren a sus padres, aunque estos no se lo merezcan; es inevitable.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“The world is frenzied—giving and taking.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“For the first time in as long as he can remember, El Capitan is proud of his brother. "Damn it, Helmud! Shit! You’ve been planning to kill me!”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“These are the little things that people should really appreciate, simple pleasures.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“I screamed. You told me not to.” He rubs at the soot on one hand with his thumb, then stares at it. “The dirt,” he says, his voice strangely peaceful.
“What about it?” she asks. “It’s dirty.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“Maybe they just didn't have anywhere they needed to go.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“The ugliness is what makes the beautiful things beautiful.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“Así es cómo funciona el olvido: eliminando el pasado y no hablando nunca de él.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“¿Siente él lo mismo que ella, un torbellino persistente que le aporrea el corazón? Con todo lo que ha perdido, lo único que sabe ahora es que a él no puede perderlo...en la vida.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“She doesn't want his sympathy. She hates pity.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“The sky is a bruise, only a storm will heal it.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
“The dirt,” he says, his voice strangely peaceful. “What about it?” she asks. “It’s dirty.”
― Julianna Baggott, quote from Pure
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“This violent state of mind.
This violent state of mine.”
― Don Winslow, quote from Savages
“Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.”
― Rachel Vincent, quote from My Soul to Lose
“Poteten det var en ny frukt, det var intet mystisk ved den, intet religiøst, kvinnfolk og barn kunne være med og få den satt, disse jordeplene som kom fra fremmed land likesom kaffen, stor og herlig mat, men i slekt med nepen.”
― Knut Hamsun, quote from Growth of the Soil
“VI. FINAL WARNING There are monsters in these pages, but as Ogden Nash pointed out in my first short-story collection, Smoke and Mirrors, where there’s a monster, there’s also a miracle. There are some long stories and some short ones. There are a handful of poems, which perhaps might need their own warning for the people who are frightened, disturbed, or terminally puzzled by poetry. (In my second short-story collection, Fragile Things, I tried to explain that the poems come free. They are bonuses for the kind of people who do not need to worry about sneaky and occasional poems lurking inside their short-story collections.) There. Consider yourself warned. There are so many little triggers out there, being squeezed in the darkness even as I write this. This book is correctly labeled. Now all we have to worry about is all the other books, and, of course, life, which is huge and complicated and will not warn you before it hurts you. Thank you for coming. Enjoy the things that never happened. Secure your own mask again after you read these stories, but do not forget to help others.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, quote from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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