Camila Tanure > Camila's Quotes

“You don’t hold back your feelings, your passion, your anger. It makes you remarkable. It makes you dangerous.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“I felt like someone had ripped my heart out and tossed it across the other side of the room. There was a burning, agonizing pain in my chest, and I had no idea how it could ever be filled.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
― Richelle Mead, Frostbite

“HORROR AND SHOCK CONSUMED ME, so much so that I thought my soul would shrivel, that the world would end right then and there—because surely, surely it couldn’t keep going on after this.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“I crossed my arms over my chest. “I thought you’d be giving me some kind of awesome advice or telling me what to do. But you just kept making me talk.” She laughed softly. “Therapy isn’t so much about what I think as you do.” “Then why do it at all?” “Because we don’t always know what it is we’re thinking or feeling. When you have a guide, it’s easier to figure things out. You’ll often discover that you already know what to do. I can help you ask questions and go places you might not have on your own.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“You aren’t afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you’re terrified of letting anyone in.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“Why was everyone suddenly challenging something that I’d held as absolute truth my entire life?”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“My mother was right. With their speed, even our fifteen-minute lead might not be enough. And yet, I still couldn’t take a step. I couldn’t stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was. He couldn’t be dead. If he was, then surely I would be dead too.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“I set off, off to kill the man I loved.”
― Richelle Mead

“Life’s like that,” he said. “As we grow and change, sometimes things we’ve experienced before take on new meaning. It’ll happen for the rest of your life.”
― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

“Oh, Rose.” He didn’t laugh, but I could tell he was smiling again. “I don’t think you’d ever be happy someplace quiet. You always need something to do.” “Are you saying I have a short attention span?” “Not at all. I’m saying there’s a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can’t. It’s one of the wonderful things about you.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“The fact that we’re alive means we should live,”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“You can’t help the way you feel.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“If I had learned anything about life and love, it was that they were tenuous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential—but not at the cost of wasting your life. I decided I wasn’t going to waste it now.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound

“Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“One step at a time," murmured Abe. "No point in letting the larger picture overwhelm us. We'll just start at the beginning.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“How could a person still be as young as he objectively knew himself to be and have had so much time pass?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“You’re incredibly gifted, Sam. But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Mine Sadie. This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Next time, we fail better.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Sadie felt as if she had been tricked into behaving amorally.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“If someone tells you there will be trouble, believe them.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“The two of them had easily slipped back into the rhythms of their friendship, and they saw each other several times a week for movies, meals, games. He felt fortified in her presence. His arguments and observations were sharper.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“While Sadie experienced this period of indecision as stressful, Sam didn’t feel that way at all. The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everything is still possible.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Sadie knew that the key to making a video game on limited resources was to make the limitations part of the style.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“What was amazing to Sam—and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“She’s my best friend,” Sam said. “Sure,” Marx said, “I get that. But is it, you know—I hope this isn’t weird that I’m asking this—is it romantic? Or has it ever been romantic?” “No,” Sam said. “We’ve never…It’s more than romantic. It’s better than romance. It’s friendship.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow