“I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Maybe you'll win when hell freezes over."
He raised an eyebrow.
"That could be easily arranged.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Keep trying until you have no more chances left.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Do you think he's cute?"
I rolled my eyes. "He's a god, Mom. Of course he's cute.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“No matter what happens, I will always be there for you, even if you do not remember who I am.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Did you know,” he said, his breath warm on my cheek, “that that is the first time anyone has ever told me they loved me?” Startled, I did the only thing I could think of—I kissed him again. “You’d better get used to hearing it more often, because I plan on saying it to you an awful lot.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“I was falling for him, a little more everyday, even though a very large part of me knew that this was a bad idea.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“I’m not, even if you think I am. But no matter what this started out as…an accident, fate, whatever—I’m glad you found me that night. Not because of what happened, but because of now. Because I get to be here with you. And I’m scared, too, but—but thank you for telling me today. Thank you for trusting me with that. I’ve never…” I pressed my lips together, trying to find the right words. “I’ve never felt like this for anyone. And I’m not really sure what falling in love feels like, but I think—I know I have. With you.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“This is the gate between the living and the dead", he said. "You are still living. The others on the grounds died very long time ago."
A chill ran through me. "And you?"
"Me?" The corner of his mouth twitched. "I rule the dead. I am not one of them”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“But if this works-if I pass, I need to know that when you look at me, you're going to see me, not just her replacement. That there is more in this future for me than standing in the shadows while you wallow the rest of your existence away.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“What are you and Henry going to do tonight anyway?"
"My secret," I said, and when I walked around to see the look on her face, I rolled my eyes. "Not that. What are you and Xander going to do?"
"That." She gave me an impish look, and I scowled. "What? I'm dead. It's not like it matters anymore.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Can I try something?" I said. "If you dont' like it, I'll stop.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“I'm not afraid of you." And to demonstrate that point, I leaned forward and kissed like he'd kissed me in the drawing room, careful not to spill my drink. Me heart pounded in my chest as I waited for him to respond, hoping he wouldn't pull away and declare everything that had happened a mistake.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Knowing it's him doesn't hurt," I said. "What hurts is that no one trusts me with anything around here.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“But could you just... stay for tonight?”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“I’ve never felt like this for anyone. And I’m not really sure what falling in love feels like, but I think—I know I have. With you.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Isn't that what friends do?" It hurt to hear the uncertainty in his voice. "You're my friend Kate, and you're miserable. What could possibly be more important than taking care of you?”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“What if he really has given up? What am I supposed to do ten?
Keep trying until you have no more chances left. And even then keep going.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“And I also know that the way I feel about you isn't going to change just because the seasons do.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“- ¿Es un sueño entonces? ¿O es que... es real?
Ella me dió un envase de macarrones, junto con una mirada que sólo mi madre podría hacer.
- ¿Hay alguna regla que yo no conozca que diga que no se puede hacer ambas cosas a la vez?”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“One cannot die if one was never alive to begin with.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“It's the night sky. See the dots? They're stars. I remembered what you said about the stars moving. You said they were different when you met Persephone, and- this is how they are now. When you met me.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Yes, I thought, everything changed with time. That was the problem, wasn’t it?”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“I was empty and full of heartache at the same time, and everything felt wrong.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Did you know,” he said, his breath warm on my cheek, “that that is the first time anyone has ever told”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“I should have loved him, I should've loved him so much that I ached over the thought of having to hurt him.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Tonight marked the end of the only chapter in my life I’d ever known, and I didn’t know how to live in the emptiness ahead.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
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“The Universe is the Practical Joke of the General
at the expense of the Particular, quoth FRATER
PERDURABO, and laughed.
But those disciples nearest to him wept, seeing the
Universal Sorrow.
Those next to them laughed, seeing the Universal Joke.
Below these certain disciples wept,
Then certain laughed.
Others next wept.
Others next laughed.
Next others wept.
Next others laughed.
Last came those that wept because they could not
see the Joke, and those that laughed lest they
should be thought not to see the Joke, and thought
it safe to act like FRATER PERDURABO.
But though FRATER PERDURABO laughed
openly, He also at the same time wept secretly;
and in Himself He neither laughed nor wept.
Nor did He mean what He said.”
― Aleister Crowley, quote from The Book of Lies
“In heaven, Lucas would be beautiful. He’d speak a language everyone understood.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Specimen Days
“I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?”
― Ann Patchett, quote from Truth and Beauty
“[…] I have a date this afternoon."
"Oh, Lord." Jake closed his eyes. "Who are you going to destroy now?"
"I beg your pardon?"
"The hotel would appreciate it if you'd just throw back the men you don't like without maiming them."
"I haven't maimed anyone."
"You almost drowned Lance, you scared Peter into heart palpitations, you stabbed Donald with a fork, and you hit Brad over the head with a bottle." Jake shook his head. "And they still ask you out.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Manhunting
“It takes years for the land to recuperate from a fire, but even in the darkest of ashes eventually something can grow.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Beatrice Letters
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