Christopher Pike · 594 pages
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“You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly”
“When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate.”
“death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”
“Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.”
“Then you should have never been born”
“A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.”
“Suddenly I felt the weight of shattered dreams.”
“God is God. His name doesn’t matter.”
“But centuries of time have not made me insensitive”
“There is no sun, but a hundred blazing blue stars,each shimmering in a long river of nebulous cloud. The air is warm, pleasant,fragrant with the perfume of a thousand invisible flowers.”
“we were here to become like God. To live like his blessed son. We just needed a few pints of Christ's blood to do so.”
“In the heart are three emotions—I felt them then: love, fear, and hatred. I could see that an individual could only have one of the three at a time.”
“I want to lay my kill at your feet.”
“Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. And sometimes True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands that you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.”
“I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.”
“You know that half the girls in school would have been after you."
He gave a soft laugh. "If they were into someone who was flunking out...I don't think I'd do too well with having to go to class when a bell rings or caring about homework..."
"A bad boy--even better. You'd have done well in Spanish class."
"If I ever went to it."
We lay in silence for a awhile; Alex's arms felt so warm and safe that I was starting to get sleepy. "Say something in Spanish," I mumbled.
He kissed my hair. "Te amo, Willow," he said quietly.
I came awake, smiling into the darkness. "What does that mean?" I whispered.
I could almost hear his own smile. "What do you think it means?"
I hugged him, kissing his collarbone and wondering if it was possible to actually die of happiness. "Te amo, Alex.”
“No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
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