“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
“Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Intensity
“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies.
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact.
I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Specter of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.”
― Karl Marx, quote from The Communist Manifesto
“In fact, we are the untouchables to the civilians. They think, more or less explicitly—with all the nuances lying between contempt and commiseration—that as we have been condemned to this life of ours, reduced to our condition, we must be tainted by some mysterious, grave sin. They hear us speak in many different languages, which they do not understand and which sound to them as grotesque as animal noises; they see us reduced to ignoble slavery, without hair, without honor and without names, beaten every day, more abject every day, and they never see in our eyes a light of rebellion, or of peace, or of faith. They know us as thieves and untrustworthy, muddy, ragged and starving, and mistaking the effect for the cause, they judge us worthy of our abasement.”
― Primo Levi, quote from Survival in Auschwitz
“One Choice, Breaks free of his past
One Choice, Embraces his future
One Choice, Exposes the dangers
One Choice, Changes him- forever
One Choice will free him”
― Veronica Roth, quote from Four: A Divergent Story Collection
“So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.
It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Firefly Lane
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