“My face is expressionless: a thing of stone. I’m mastering this moment. She won’t see anything but what I show her.”
― James W. Bodden, quote from The Red Light Princess
“Men see beauty wherever they can get it. But that’s the allure of the Red Light Princess. Like any good whore, she’s whoever you want her to be.”
― James W. Bodden, quote from The Red Light Princess
“Men started praying to you, begging for a taste. That legend of yours spiraled out of control. You gave the people hope. They were told you were all they ever needed.”
― James W. Bodden, quote from The Red Light Princess
“Hannibal knew your beauty was trouble. Only bad things could come from such a pretty girl. You were made for temptation. You would be a source of jealousy and greed. Men would lust, plot and kill to claim you as their own. He decided to place you in the public domain and donate your body to the pimps as a gift to the people.”
― James W. Bodden, quote from The Red Light Princess
“That girl has done things to your head.'
He pats my back, 'Don’t pretend she’s not crawling inside of yours.”
― James W. Bodden, quote from The Red Light Princess
“They are all cheap copies and every one of them is forgotten.”
― James W. Bodden, quote from The Red Light Princess
“She knew every single one of us. Gave us the chance to share in her bed. We all took comfort that she was here and we were not alone. The princess had nothing but love to give.”
― James W. Bodden, quote from The Red Light Princess
“These poor girls are just bad impersonators. They look cheap, really. There’s nothing special about them. They are just reaching out to get noticed. They don’t want to be invisible anymore. They don’t want to get lost in crowds.”
― James W. Bodden, quote from The Red Light Princess
“These squatters aren’t just aliens, drifters and undesirables. They’re new world barbarians, conquering free spaces and making them their own.”
― James W. Bodden, quote from The Red Light Princess
“There’s fear and violence under the surface. One always follows the other.”
― James W. Bodden, quote from The Red Light Princess
“We build up celebrities easily here. They tower above us on the public screens: huge and terrifying and out of our reach.”
― James W. Bodden, quote from The Red Light Princess
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“One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.
The tale is the map that is the territory.
You must remember this.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from American Gods
“You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan
“He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.”
― Patrick Süskind, quote from Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from All Quiet on the Western Front
“I love you, Roza." He kissed me again. "I'll always be here for you. I'm not going to let anything happen to you."
The words were wonderful and dangerous. He shouldn't have said anything like that to me. He shouldn't have been promising he'd protect me, not when he was supposed to dedicate his life to protecting Moroi like Lissa. I couldn't be first in his heart, just like he couldn't be first in mine. That was why I shouldn't have said what I said next-but I did anyway.
"And I won't let anything happen to you," I promised. "I love you." He kissed me again, swallowing off any other words I might have added.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Shadow Kiss
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