“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
“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from The Road
“What I do I do because I like to do.”
― Anthony Burgess, quote from A Clockwork Orange
“The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work." When he didn't say anything, I tried to grip his shirt, but my fingers were too weak. "Did you? Did you want me?"
His words came out thickly. "Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together."
"Then why did you lie to me?"
We reached the clinic, and he managed to open the door while still holding me. As soon as he stepped inside, he began yelling for help.
"Why did you lie?" I murmured again.
Still holding me in his arms, he looked down at me. I could hear voices and footsteps getting closer.
"Because we can't be together."
"Because of the age thing, right?" I asked. "Because you're my mentor?"
His fingertip gently wiped away a tear that had escaped down my cheek. "That's part of it," he said. "But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her."
I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out.
"No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Vampire Academy
“The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep. ”
― Barbara Kingsolver, quote from The Poisonwood Bible
“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Siddhartha
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