“Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Impossible just means they ain't thought of a name for it yet....”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“I don't care about lasting. I just want right now.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“... I'll be back before I have to meet the Headmaster about me going mad and killing people on my birthday, I swear.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“He's no kind of gentleman.
That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces.
I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“I breathed in for a moment, letting his scent of leather and cigarettes and boy calm my ragged breathing.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“You're a monster that mothers threaten children with and you're still touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“...I wondered if I'd ever stop feeling fragile...”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“When a court officer suggested quarantine for Nerissa, she grabbed the man's pen and jammed it into the back of his hand, screaming that he was a Crimson Guard witch come to remove her memories and replace them with bird-song.
They decided to skip quarantine after that.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Considering it was my father's house, I thought it was very much my beeswax, but I wasn't about to argue with a stranger hiding in a kitchen, pelting me with footwear.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Pain was tertiary. I could feel it later, for any length of time it desired.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“You smell pretty tasty.
Just what every girl wants to hear.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“There are seventeen madhouses in the city of Lovecraft. I've visited all of them.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Hell, Cal. You're a monster that mothers threaten their children with and you're still as touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“I fear, in my dark hours, that it hungers for me and that it is only a matter of time before it eats its full of my sanity.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“It wasn't even a dream, because dreams come from a person's brain and I knew deep down that this one came directly from my madness.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Now the Night Bridge has seen you, too, and if you turned back, it could keep your soul forever.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Fine job, cowboy. You work to be this stupid, or is it innate?”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“We fight and we bleed for this hidden world, and the world eats us alive.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
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“There are always problems in the world, and the world has always been there, and the world will remain there. If you start trying to work it out—changing circumstances, changing people, thinking of a utopian world, changing the government, the structure, the economy, the politics, the education—you will be lost. That is the trap known as politics. That’s how many people waste their own lives. Be very clear about it: The only person you can help right now is you yourself. Right now you cannot help anybody. This may be just a distraction, just a trick of the mind. See your own problems, see your own anxieties, see your own mind, and first try to change that. It happens to many people: The moment they become interested in some sort of religion, meditation, prayer, immediately the mind tells them, “What are you doing sitting here silently? The world needs you; there are so many poor people. There is much conflict, violence, aggression. What are you doing praying in the temple? Go and help people.” How can you help those people? You are just like them. You may create even more problems for them, but you cannot help. That’s how all the revolutions have always failed. No revolution has yet succeeded because the revolutionaries are in the same boat. The religious person is one who understands that “I am very tiny, I am very limited. If with this limited energy, even if I can change myself, that will be a miracle.” And if you can change yourself, if you are a totally different being with new life shining in your eyes and a new song in your heart, then maybe you can be helpful to others also, because then you will have something to share.”
― Osho, quote from Living on Your Own Terms: What Is Real Rebellion?
“Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you’re happy, it’s an animal serenity, something between contentment and joy, a steadiness of the belonged self in the world.”
― E.L. Doctorow, quote from Andrew's Brain
“anonymity makes people honest about what they want, but not what they are.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Winter
“One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.”
― Faraaz Kazi, quote from Truly, Madly, Deeply
“I said I could and I would. And I did.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
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