“Because you are just a pawn. And a pawn can’t help but get played.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“This is yours,” he said, pressing my hand more tightly to his chest. “And I don’t give it lightly.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Perv—I’ve gotten upgraded from stalker.' Wasn’t he the eternal optimist?”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“I love all of you Ember—the ferocious, beautiful girl I first laid eyes on, the fiery girl who punched me in the face when I threw off her sheets, the penitent girl I found curled up in the shower, the curious girl who questioned a wanted man’s guilt, the brave girl who pushed me down when she saw a gun, and the secretive girl who thinks she needs to carry the world on her shoulders.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“God, he’s sexy. No wonder he was a little shit all the time.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Ember, the bad comes in with the good. And I want all of it—I want your secrets, your worry, your pain. I love you—you’re not alone in this life.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“The government had been controlling my nightly visits.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“They’d given me a blowtorch. Idiots.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Someone so annoying didn’t deserve to look that good.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“I met his eyes. “Easily. I could love you easily.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“eyebrows rose. “I’m just going to throw this out there, but I’m okay with being taken advantage of.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“I never listened to those who told me about the dark side of loving your pair.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“I love you too.” Funny how those words got easier to say the more I voiced them.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Guerilla warfare? I was in way over my head. I told myself that I could do this. It was guerilla warfare every time I went to sleep.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Caden might be my partner, but he was also the enemy.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Jesus. It was worth it,” Caden said, looking dazed and pleased.”
― Laura Thalassa, quote from The Vanishing Girl
“Pete and me are pretty sure she's a witch, like old Gussie Jetherell, just down from us-- through she definitely is. She's got lots of cats, and that's a sign.”
― Lindsey Barraclough, quote from Long Lankin
“For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that. Martin Luther King Jr., “Where”
― quote from While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
“The identification of courage with truth pops up often in history, even in our day: talk-show host Bill Maher was kicked off network TV for suggesting that the suicide hijackers of 9/11 were brave. Common decency demands that no positive character traits be associated with someone whose actions and ideas are vicious. Unfortunately, this equation enables people to validate questionable ideas by defending them with courage, as if a coward cannot say something that is true or a brave man something that is false.”
― Tamim Ansary, quote from Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
“There were two kinds of cases before the Supreme Court. There were abortion cases—and there were all the others.
Abortion was (and is) the central legal issue before the Court. It defined the judicial philosophies of the justices. It dominated the nomination and confirmation process. It nearly delineated the difference between the national Democratic and Republican parties.”
― Jeffrey Toobin, quote from The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
“I was too stubborn to really take on what she was saying. But we're all guilty sometimes of only listening to what we want to hear.”
― Lesley Pearse, quote from Trust Me
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