“I cannot let the fear of the past color the future.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“I have good news and bad news The good news is that the jeep is still where we left it, and I got the damned thing working again."
"What's the bad news?"
"Something took my fuzzy dice.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“Oh, don't mind me," came an extremely sarcastic voice near the wall. “You two go ahead and make out–I'll just sit here and bleed quietly.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“There are no good choices, Allison,' Kanin offered in a quiet voice. 'There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“The lesser of two evils was still evil.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“You're still beautiful and dangerous and incredible, and I'll keep telling you that for as long as it takes you to believe it. But right now, all I want to do is kiss you, except I'm terrified that if I try you might throw me off this balcony.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“Only death will take me away from you, vampire girl," he whispered. "And even then, I'll watch over you from wherever I end up.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“I sheathed my blade and glared at him. "And here I almost thought you weren't a complete bastard."
"Well, that's your mistake, not mine.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“I know what it’s like to miss someone. To feel like you’re just…wandering around, lost.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“Now we're going to save a bunch of dirty meatsacks from a bunch of dirty cannibals? Why don't we rescue some orphaned kittens and put food out for stray puppies while we're at it?”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“Next time you two decide to go on a bloody killing spree, at least send me an invitation so I know that you care.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“For the rest of my existence, if I lived to see the end of this world, there would never be another Ezekiel Crosse. There would never be another soul as bright as his. And that both terrified me and made me savagely - and maybe selfishly - determined to keep him. Zeke was mine now. Forever.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“This is the most I have ever been in the sewers in one place. If someone had said to me a month ago, 'Hey, Jackal, guess where you'll be spending most of your time in New Covington? Ankle-deep in shit!' I would've ripped their lips off.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“What do you think he wants?”…
“Don’t ask me, I’m not a psychotic maniac.” He paused. “Well, not as much of a psychotic maniac.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“Don't tell me you fell something for the little . . . oh.' The vampire blinked, then curled his lip back, disgust and pity crossing his sharp features. 'Oh, sister. Really? That's just sad.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“Well," I ventured as we left Salazar's office, stepping back into the long hallway. I glanced over at Kanin, Zeke and Jackal, and shrugged. "What now?"
Jackal rolled his eyes and stepped away from us. "What now is that I am going to relax for a few hours without listening to the lot of you whine at me. 'Ohhh, don't hurt the humans, ohhh, we have to save refugees from mole men, ohhh, Kanin's dying.' Ugh." He made a disgusted gesture with both hands. "It's enough to make me puke. I am going to the bar to get this taste out of my mouth. You all can do whatever you want.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“Allison."
I almost collapsed in relief. "Yeah," I whispered, forcing a pained smile as he stared at me as if I were a ghost. "It's me. Damn you, Kanin. You were a pain in the ass to find, you know that?"
Kanin didn't answer. Without warning, his hands rose, pressing to either side of my face as I went rigid. His stare was awed, hopeful, as if he couldn't quite believe I was real and had to touch me to make sure I wasn't a phantom.
"You're here." I barely caught the whisper, and Kanin's eyes closed again as he bowed his head. It was a broken sound, a man desperately grasping at the last thread of hope, when he had been in the darkness for so long. "You came."
And, as I stood, shocked, against the wall of the cell, Kanin sank to his knees in front of me, holding the backs of my legs. The top of his bowed head pressed against my thighs. "You came," he repeated, a chant holding him to sanity. I swallowed the lump in my throat and touched his broad shoulders, biting my lips to keep the tears in check, as the cell door opened with a creak, and the Prince beckoned us both to freedom.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“It's not the physical scars that are the most painful.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“So...." He picked a yellow cat skull out of an alcove, turned it toward me, and moved the jaws up and down as he asked, "What do we do now?”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“When I was Allie the Fringer, I used to collect books like this, from anywhere I could find them. Of Course, in the Fringe, owning them was highly illegal. The vampire lords didn’t want their cattle to be able to read—it might put ideas in our heads if they knew what life was like before. But one of my greatest secrets was that I could read. My mom had taught me when she was still alive, and I’d clung to that accomplishment fiercely. It was the one thing the vampires couldn’t take from me.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“What's the matter? Scared? Need your big vampire brother to go down first.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“He paused, gasping for breath, but continued in a soft, steady voice. "Allie, I...I love you.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“You're not a saint. You're a demon. Own up to it.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“You have no idea how hard this is for me, but...maybe, this isn't the right time. Not now, in a vampire tower...with them all around." He opened his eyes, giving me a pleading look. "Do you understand...what I'm trying to say?"
I smiled. "You're turning red, did you know that?"
"Allie!" Zeke blew out his breath in a huff. I laughed, released him and stepped back.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“I watched him depart, steeled myself and then walked over to Kanin, who hadn't moved from his place in the corner.
"That was interesting." he mused in a toneless voice as I joined him along the wall. "I assume that last display was solely for my benefit?”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“Lesson learned. I was a monster. I would never forget that again.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“You have my promise, vampire girl. I don’t intend to give up. I’ll fight beside you for as long as I can.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
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“Ruby, what does the future look like?” Nico asked. “I can’t picture it. I try all the time, but I can’t imagine it. Jude said it looked like an open road just after a rainstorm.”
I turned back toward the board, eyes tracing those eight letters, trying to take their power away; change them from a place, a name, to just another word. Certain memories trap you; you relive their thousand tiny details. The damp, cool spring air, swinging between snow flurries and light rain. The hum of the electric fence. The way Sam used to let out a small sigh each morning we left the cabin. I remembered the path to the Factory the way you never forgot the story behind a scar. The black mud would splatter over my shoes, momentarily hiding the numbers written there. 3285. Not a name.
You learned to look up, craning your neck back to gaze over the razor wire curled around the top of the fence. Otherwise, it was too easy to forget that there was a world beyond the rusting metal pen they’d thrown all of us animals into.
“I see it in colors,” I said. “A deep blue, fading into golds and reds—like fire on a horizon. Afterlight. It’s a sky that wants you to guess if the sun is about to rise or set.”
Nico shook his head. “I think I like Jude’s better.”
“Me too,” I said softly. “Me too.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In The Afterlight
“To sit in this awful mess and maybe smoke some dope and watch some innocuous shit on a dumb glass tube and feel fine about it and know there's really nothing you have to do, ever, but feel your warm friend's silent content. You don't feel guilty about not fighting a war or carrying signs to protest it either. We've just mastered the life of doing nothing, which when you think about it, may be the hardest thing of all to do.”
― Jim Carroll, quote from The Basketball Diaries
“As Firestar drew nearer he recognized the cream-and-brown tabby she-cat he had surprised in the scrubland near the Twolegplace.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Firestar's Quest
“The apocalypse doesn’t have to be fire and brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. If you believe you’re the center of your own universe and you want to see the universe destroyed, it only takes one bullet.”
― Marilyn Manson, quote from The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
“Well, I'm not as lucky as you to have this every day.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Every Soul a Star
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