Ilsa J. Bick Quotes

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

Those brain-zapped kids weren’t the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.

..... desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.

Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.

You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.