Quotes from Pure

“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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