Quotes from The Chemist

“You'll make mistakes because it's impossible to know what is or isn't a mistake until it's made.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“Sometimes you cling to a mistake simply because it took so long to make.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“I've never been drawn to someone the way I am to you, and I have been from the very first moment I met you. It's like the difference between...between reading about gravity and then falling for the first time.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“Dishonest people don't believe honest people exist.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“This is weird, Ollie. I… well, I almost like you right now.” “The feeling will pass.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“Don't let hope make you stupid.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“She searched for something to say, something that would make the world a little less dark and scary for him.
'Pop-Tart?' she offered.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“Free was harder to trace...safety always trumped guilt.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“way, looking as if he wanted”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“Играеше игра с малки залози, знаеше го. Само един живот. Просто нейният живот.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“Don’t let hope make you stupid.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“It wasn’t about gratification, but there was no need that wasn’t met, whether it was physical or something less definable.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“And then the world beats you down a little, and some of the color goes out of life, and you settle for reality…”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“We build up these ideas of people, create the one we want to be with, and then try to keep the real person inside the false mold. It doesn’t always work out well.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“the mundane can be quite satisfying. In fact, being ordinary in general is highly underrated.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“When he wakes up," Daniel murmured gently, "I'm going to punch him in the throat.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“As someone who knew better than most the kind of darkness that went on behind the scenes and how little any of the important decisions had to do with the figurehead spokesperson the people elected, it was hard for her to care much about left or right.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“The bed was absurd—some kind of soft, supportive cloud that was probably made from spun gold or unicorn mane.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“A person who will sell out his partner always sees the partner as plotting in exactly the same way. Dishonest people don’t believe honest people exist.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“It’s like the difference between… between reading about gravity and then falling for the first time.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

“It was odd how comfortable she was with killing people these days, how satisfying she found it. She became bloodthirsty, which was ironic, all things considered. She'd spent six years under their tutelage, and in all that time they hadn't come close to breaking her down, to turning her into someone who enjoyed her work. But three years on the run from them had changed a lot of things.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Chemist

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