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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“Chapter 1 A lot of people lounge by pools in L.A., but few of them are truly immortal, no matter how hard they pretend with plastic surgery and exercise. Doyle was truly immortal and had been for over a thousand years. A thousand years of wars, assassinations, and political intrigue, and he’d been reduced to being eye candy in a thong bathing suit by the pool of the rich and famous. He lay at the edge of the pool, wearing almost nothing. Sunlight glittered across the blue, blue water of the pool. The light broke in a jagged dance across his body, as if some invisible hand stirred the light, turning it into a dozen tiny spotlights that coaxed Doyle’s dark body into colors I’d never known his skin could hold. He wasn’t black the way a human being is black, but more the way a dog is black. Watching the play of light on his skin, I realized I’d been wrong. His skin gleamed with blue highlights, a shine of midnight blue along the long muscular sweep of his calf, a flare of royal blue like a stroke of deep sky touched his back and shoulder. Purple to shame the darkest amethyst caressed his hip. How could I ever have thought his skin monochrome? He was a miracle of colors and light, strapped across a body that rippled and moved with muscles honed in wars fought centuries before I was born.”
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“They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Incubus Dreams

“Jillian,” I whispered, “I know you don’t know who I am. But I love your brother, and I know you do too. So . . . do you think you could wake up? Do you think you could at least try?”
For far too long she gave me no response. I’d just about given up—hung my head and prepared myself for the inevitable, impossible job of comforting Joshua—when Jillian whispered back.
“I guess. Since you asked so nicely.”
In spite of everything, a quiet laugh escaped my lips.
“Thank God. Because I have a feeling you’d be a huge pain in the ass if you died.”
― Tara Hudson, quote from Hereafter

“But I still state unhesitatingly, that for pure, vacillating stupidity, for superb incompetence to command, for ignorance combined with bad judgment --in short, for the true talent for catastrophe -- Elphy Bey stood alone. Others abide our question, but Elphy outshines them all as the greatest military idiot of our own or any other day.
Only he could have permitted the First Afghan War and let it develop to such ruinous defeat. It was not easy: he started with a good army, a secure position, some excellent officers, a disorganized enemy, and repeated opportunities to save the situation. But Elphy, with the touch of true genius, swept aside these obstacles with unerring precision, and out of order wrought complete chaos. We shall not, with luck, look upon his like again.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, quote from Flashman

“They were ordered to end their expatriation and return to America, where Colonel Lindbergh was to take up the cause of America First. Speeches were provided, written in English, denouncing the British, Roosevelt, and the Jews and supporting America’s neutrality in the European war;”
― Philip Roth, quote from The Plot Against America

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