“They were always meant to be together, one boy and one girl, two hearts split into two, sent to far-off lands on their own. For God wanted to see if true love could be tested. He wanted to see if two halves of one soul could find each other again, even against the odds. Years would pass. They would both be hurt. They would both be sad, but one day, when they least expected it, they would stumble into each other’s paths. The question is: would they recognize each other’s soul? And would they find their way back to love…?”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“My Kisa-Anna… my solnyshko… God put a piece of your blue eyes in mine so we would always know we matched…”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“I’m closing my eyes so I can feel being inside you.” He placed his hand over his heart and rasped out, “I’ve seen too many bad things with these eyes. This, I will feel in my heart.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“You can have me, solnyshko. You can have all of me. You always have, and you always will.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“Her eyes were light blue, his eyes the richest of brown, but the left iris was smudged with the girl’s light blue.
They matched.
God made them this way so they would recognize themselves as meant for one another when they were born, so they would always find each other no matter where they were on Earth.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“I know you. I remember you. You’re the girl I was designed to love, my God-given match, my solnyshko.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“I have to protect you Kisa-Anna. I believe I was made to protect you.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“Without thinking it through, I reached out and took her hand in mine, wrapping our fingers around each other’s. Kisa gasped and said, “Luka, what are you doing?”
I shrugged. “Holding your hand.”
“Why?” Kisa whispered, staring at my thumb stroking her skin. She was so soft.
“Because I have to,” I answered honestly, and she seemed to stop breathing for several minutes before exhaling, her long eyelashes fluttering when she looked at me.
“Okay,” she whispered, and something warm spread in my chest and down to my stomach. “I…I like it.”
I smiled and Kisa blushed again. “Me too. I’m going to hold your hand all the time now. I’m never going to let go.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“That’s because we were never apart. Since we were kids, we were one. It has always been that way. We found a way back to each other, my love.”
Luka’s eyes bored into mine, a flare of possession in their glare. “And will always be that way,” he said assertively. “I’m never losing you again.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“Sometimes when a heart breaks, it starts to let in the light.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“I had you. I had you since the day you were born. I asked your mama for you and she said yes.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“Why Kisa?” I asked. “Why is it like this between us?”
Kisa dipped her eyes, not saying anything for a while, but then she smiled shyly and murmured, “Whatever our souls are made of-”
“His and mine are the same.” I finished off, the words coming from some locked-away memory in my mind.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“My Kisa-Anna…my solnyshko…God put a piece of your blue eyes in mine so we would always know we matched…”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“Mama always said the stars aligned when we were born, that God made us a match. From the first time we saw each other, Luka took me in his arms and swore his protection over me to my mother. Mama used to say she caught him starting into my crib only hours after I was born. Then when she asked what he was doing, he asked her if he could have me.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“This was my woman, my Kisa-Anna, the other half of my soul.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“So this…ache I’ve had in my chest since I saw you is…love? When I see you in my dreams, and want you, it is because I love you?”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“I want you.” Three words. Three simple words became my undoing. Spoken roughly, dominantly, yet it sounded like poetry to my soul.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“My…Something within me, here,” I pointed to my heart. “Here.” I pointed to my stomach. “And here.” I pointed to my mind. “Tells me I should have you. That you should belong to me. That you do belong to me, and that I belong to you.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“Of course it was irrational. Of course it was stupid. Of course it was impossible. But when your heart’s so deeply involved, logic flies straight out the window.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“In that cage we’re both Gods and monsters.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“I had lost you…I didn’t care much about anything after that…until you saved me in the alley and my heart began to beat again.” She sucked in a breath. “I hadn’t even realized it’d stopped.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“And tomorrow night, my two loves-one pure yet broken and the other so dark that I now realized I didn't know him at all-they would fight to the death.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“I’m closing my eyes so I can feel being inside you.” His placed his hand over his heart and rasped out, “I’ve seen too many bad things with these eyes. This, I will feel in my heart.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“She was my balm, my clam. My Kisa-Anna.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“They were always meant to be together, one boy and one girl, two hearts split into two, sent to far-off lands on their own. For God wanted to see if true love could be tested. He wanted to see if two halves of one soul could find each other again, even against the odds. Years would pass, they would both be hurt, they would both be sad, but one day, when they least expected it, they would stumble into each other’s paths. The question is: would they recognize each other’s soul? Would they find their way back to love…?”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“I love you, Luka. In all these years without you, I never stopped.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“Because you belong to me, Kisa. You always have.” Luka’s face thawed and he pointed at my eye, then his left. “You’re a part of me, remember? God put a piece of you within me so when we were born, everyone would know we matched.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“Kisa.." he whispered, rolling my name on his tongue and i froze, praying he would say something else.. I know you, i remember you. You're the girl i was designed to love, my God-given match, my solnyshko. But he didn't. Instead he inhealed a deep breath and said, "why do i feel like I've known you all my life?" And at that moment i knew...”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
“We’d always been together. Her and me, from birth, we were always together.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Raze
Tillie Cole
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“But Viv, if I've learned anything at all in the last eight years of my life? It's that people just like to tell themselves stories about where they came from. They can't help themselves. They don't trust the world around them--it's too good for them, or not good enough--so they tell themselves stories about it. They tell themselves an old magician who lives up in the sky made them out of clay and put them here until whenever he makes up his mind to take them out again. Your parents didn't like their creation myth, that's all--it had pain in it, and chaos, and their own parents were ashamed. So they told themselves a story that was at least partially true: about two good people who deserved happy lives. And probably at some point they started to believe that story. But the thing is, really, that it doesn't matter. For your parents or anyone else. It doesn't actually matter where we came from, or where we're going, or when. The only thing that matters is what we have to do while we're here and how well we do it.”
― Katie Coyle, quote from Vivian Apple at the End of the World
“- No puedes sentarte ahí -dijo-. Los asientos traseros son para los negros. Tienes que cambiarte a la parte delantera.
Sus palabras me golpearon como una bofetada. De repente retrocedí en el tiempo hasta Cracovia, cuando los nazis ordenaron que los judíos nos sentáramos en los asientos traseros de los tranvías (antes de prohibirnos directamente viajar en transporte público). El contexto era muy diferente, pero de todos modos casi hizo explotar mi cabeza. ¿Por qué existía algo así en los Estados Unidos? Yo habría creído, erróneamente, que esa clase de discriminación estaba destinada únicamente a los judíos durante el régimen nazi. Ahora descubriría que la inequidad y el prejuicio existía también en ese país que yo habría aprendido a amar”
― quote from The Boy on the Wooden Box
“Even with the condom on, I can still feel the piercing enough. And I love it. In fact, I’m ruined. I’ll never want another man without it. I”
― quote from Breaking Even
“went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out. ~ Rodney Dangerfield”
― Mara Jacobs, quote from Worth The Fall
“I could see clearly that this growing belligerence was an aberration, coming not from intention, but from the Fear.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision
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