“If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together?”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“There's just one rule, just one basic law that everyone lives under : take control or be controlled.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“The answer cannot be found. That should be my new life motto.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“I don't trust you," she whispered, her gaze caught in his as if hypnotized. He was close enough to kiss. He could dominate a room and make her head spin, and his sudden vulnerability confused her. I barely know this boy. She had to remind herself of that when he ran his fingers down her arms, leaving goose bumps in his wake.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“Because when you love someone, that's what you do - you get involved.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Everyone always blames the monster--but no one ever blames the one who created it. Isn't that right?" He sneered at Moira's limp form. "Tell me, who is the monster? The creation or the creator? It has to start somewhere.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“Some people never changed, could always be depended on to be exactly the way they should.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
“Her mind drew him in, hid his image at its center, folded over him, the world slid into place, the chaos ceased.”
― Jessica Khoury, quote from Vitro
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“I've not got much money, but I've got heaps of ideas.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.”
― Ahdaf Soueif, quote from The Map of Love
“The dirtiest actions should be carried out by the most honest men.”
― Michael Bar-Zohar, quote from Mossad
“I went away and drew up a list of all the things you wouldn’t have to suffer if you weren’t here anymore. It was something like this: No more illness, no more struggling to be healthy. No struggling – period. No loss: you would never have to grieve the passing of another. Heartbreak! How lovely not to have to wake in the morning with a heart full of fragments and eyes full of grit. No ageing – here’s a universal truth: the older you get, the more life loses its sparkle, loses a little of the magic. The endless, wonderful possibilities of youth where everything and anything feel possible – that fades . . . But then I considered all the things you would not experience: Falling hopelessly in love. Your wedding day. Knowing the blessing of a child. Seeing the sunset in places far and wide. Earning the right in old age to become eccentric, even cantankerous. Getting properly drunk on champagne. Sleeping in a meadow, by a brook. Decorating a room. Waking wrapped in the arms of the one you love. Fresh caught lobster, eaten on a dock. Being old enough to know better, but still laughing so hard at nothing much that you feel dizzy with happiness. Oh, my darling, this list is endless, it stretches on for infinity . . . And”
― Amanda Prowse, quote from The Food of Love
“She's sweet but too apocalyptic. You try kissing someone good-night who's just told you for the umpteenth time that the world's experiencing its last disgusting paroxysm before Rapture.”
― George Saunders, quote from CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
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