“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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“c'mon now, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big.”
― Beth Hoffman, quote from Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
“He was permanently impressed by the most irrelevant banalities and impossible to impress with real novelty, meaning, or conflict. And he was too moronic to be properly self-loathing--so it was my duty to loathe him instead.”
― Jonathan Lethem, quote from Motherless Brooklyn
“The garden is a world filled with secrets. Slowly, I see more each day. The black pines twist and turn to form graceful shapes, while the moss is a carpet of green that invites you to sit by the pond. Even the stone lanterns, which dimly light the way at night, allow you to see only so much.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from The Samurai's Garden
“Brother, stand the pain.
Escape the poison of your impulses.
The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do.
Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun.
Turn away from the cave of your sleeping.
That way a thorn expands to a rose.”
― Rumi, quote from The Essential Rumi
“Night came and fell hard.
Not like God drawing a blanket over our land
But like someone snuffing a candle.
Sudden and total.
Out—just like that.
Now we are waiting.
Waiting in the dark
To see if someone
Will switch on the light.
We can cower,
We can fear,
We can get lost together or
Get lost alone.
But the truth is:
I am the light. You are the light.
We are lit up together.
We are silhouettes of sunlight
cast against the night.
Shining now, let us
Shining, hold the light,
Shining, so that our families
Can find us.
Shining.”
― Emmy Laybourne, quote from Monument 14
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