“I do not know what, in the end, makes a person who they are. If we`re all born one way, or if we only arrive there after as series of chioces. The bible claims that the wicked act on their own desires and impulses, because God is good, only good, and He would never compel a soul to wickedness. That I`m supposed to count on justice in the next life, even if I can`t have it in this one.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“He has gone to a place I cannot find him. I cannot sing him home.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“Sometimes we have to bend," she says, "to survive.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“Anything can break if you hit it hard enough. Aren't we all proof of that?”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“It took me a while to understand that when you don’t like someone, nothing they can say or do will ever seem right. Something as harmless as giving a kid a cookie becomes something aggressive, a challenge to their authority.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“Maybe that's the whole point-life showing me how good it could be, letting me have it just long enough to want it more than I've ever wanted anything else, only to rip it away. When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“I glide under a sky so blue, so purple, so golden I fight as hard as anything to keep my eyes open, because I want to remember it forever, however long that lasts. Because I know it'll be the last thing I see.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“I know I shouldn't look, but I can't help it, I have to see if it's like before. Even with his mask on, I saw the soul beneath the stone.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“How can you miss something, feel so awful about it, when you're not sure you had it in the first place?”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“I want to feel every ounce of pain and happiness life can serve up, because it'll mean I've survived. It'll mean I'm alive.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“There is nothing, not even a flicker of life in his face.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it’s a vortex that can’t and won’t be stopped.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“They will never have this, will they? They might not ever know the feeling of cozying up to a lightning bolt, what it feels like to look at someone's face and see your heart there.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“It takes a sharp blade, a huge effort to separate one half of a coin from the other. It would take something a hell of a lot stronger and sharper to separate me from her.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“Only, they've done such a good job of making this place hell that I wouldn't be surprised if the real one turned out to be a much nicer place.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
“My eyes kept skipping back to her, drawn to her face like a lone candle flame in the dark”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Sparks Rise
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“Okay, pull me up."
The rope didn't move.
"Ascanio?" What was it now? Did he see a butterfly and get distracted?
The rope slid up, as fast as if wound by a winch. I shot upward. What the...?
I cleared the edge and found myself face to face with Curran.
Oh boy.
He held the rope with one hand, muscles bulging on his arm under his sweatshirt. No strain showed on Curran's face. It's good to be the baddest shapeshifter in the city. Behind him Ascanio stood very still, pretending to be invisible.
Curran's gray eyes laughed at me. The Beast Lord reached out and touched my nose with his finger. "Boop.”
― Ilona Andrews, quote from Magic Breaks
“Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, quote from Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Are you well? You look a trifle peaked.'
'If I do, it is because black doesn't become me. I mean to lighten my mourning, and have ordered a charming gray gown.'
'You are mistaken.'
'What, in going into half-mourning?'
'No, in thinking black does not become you.”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from Bath Tangle
“Two years married, she thought, and he could still make her heart hum.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Indulgence in Death
“This is what dying is like, he thinks. You do it alone. You are debased by it. You are exposed to your own weaknesses and to the harsh reality of what it means.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from Armageddon's Children
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