Ann Aguirre Quotes

But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.

Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.

Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don't understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.

Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered

With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.

Not just when its easy. All the time.

For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.

With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.

I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.

If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.

My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy... or so scared.

What was the good of having such a fine home if you weren't willing to fight for it?

In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.

But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.

Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.

Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.

It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.

You don’t need to be afraid of falling // when there’s someone around to catch you.

I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.

A divided heart offers a strange sensation.

He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.

People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.

I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.

You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.

Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them.

I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.

There’s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don’t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they’re all the same shade of gray.

I wanted proof, not promises.

We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.

I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.

Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

Love can make us do dreadful things.

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

Are you afraid of falling, baby? No, I’m afraid of landing. [He’s laughing, and I’m smiling.] Stupid idiot smile, don’t you know what comes next?

I never belonged anywhere until I met you.

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.

I'm Sirantha Jax, and I have had enough.

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.