Ann Aguirre > Quotes

“I never belonged anywhere until I met you.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.”
― Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind

“No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“We’re both so fucking broken that I understand our strange attraction, a push-pull magnetism born of similar scars.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.”
― Ann Aguirre, Wanderlust

“Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.”
― Ann Aguirre, Blue Diablo

“How can you miss someone who’s right beside you?”
― Ann Aguirre, Wanderlust

“Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.”
― Ann Aguirre, Killbox

“You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination.

That would have to do.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“... Where did you go?”

“Down below.”

“Ugh,” she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.”

Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw.

...

I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. “I’m Deuce, animal from the underground.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn’t notice that the heart is gone.”
― Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind

“He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk of the universe, true, but there’s still so much more to see. I doubt I’ll ever cure this wanderlust, and I’m content with dedicating my life to failing to sate it... He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.”
― Ann Aguirre, Aftermath

“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.”
― Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind

“I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.”
― Ann Aguirre, Blue Diablo

“He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.”
― Ann Aguirre, Wanderlust

“Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.”
― Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind

“You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.”
― Ann Aguirre, Hell Fire

“A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“Just . . . love me, and let tomorrow look after itself.”
― Ann Aguirre, Killbox

“Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits—and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.”
― Ann Aguirre, Killbox

“I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.”
― Ann Aguirre, Hell Fire

“I wanted proof, not promises.”
― Ann Aguirre, Hell Fire

“You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.”
― Ann Aguirre, Blue Diablo

“Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“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.”
― Ann Aguirre, Wanderlust

“I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.”
― Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind

“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.”
― Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind

“My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“You don’t need to be afraid of falling // when there’s someone around
to catch you.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.”
― Ann Aguirre, Wanderlust

“While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does.”
― Ann Aguirre, Wanderlust

“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
― Ann Aguirre, Blue Diablo

“Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.”
― Ann Aguirre, Blue Diablo

“A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.”
― Ann Aguirre, Killbox

“Does changing for the better absolve you of all the wicked shit you did before?
No. March fills my head like a warm glow. Instead you receive the twin delights of guilt and regret.”
― Ann Aguirre, Wanderlust

“Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?”
“Only to people who try to kidnap me,” I tell him sweetly, and March snorts, so I feel obliged to add, “Or rescue me…” And then Dina makes a pfft sound. “Or who travel with me…” My gaze sweeps around the darkened interior, trying to find an ally, but nobody will hold my eyes more than two seconds, it seems. “Fine, frag you all, I’m dark juju, bad luck, and you’re all doomed.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace