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“Samo su dva iskonska straha, jesi znala to? Rodiš se sa strahom od glasnih zvukova i strahom od padanja. Ozbiljno, imaš na internetu. Ostalih stotinu fobija naučiš od bližnjih. Neke te čuvaju od opasnosti, da. Ali većina je tu samo da zbija šale s našim životima.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“Nemoj me tako gledati, daj da ti kažem zašto me pogodilo. Nije mene ubola ni riječ „Ciganin“ ni riječ „najlepši“. Ova između, ova prokleta, „ali“. To je riječ uljez, to je zla riječ. Ne smije joj biti mjesto u rečenicama o ljudima. Ako si s krive strane te riječi, ona te zauvijek dijeli od dobrih slika, shvaćaš.
On je vrejden, ali je Cigan.
Ciganica je, ali pošrena.
Sandijevi su za nas s te krive strane, shvatila sam. Od svega dobrog i lijepog dijeli ih riječ koja kaže da nisu sasvim vrijedni toga. Upozoraca da u svojoj srži…možda skrivaju i potpunu suprotnost. Bilo mi je teško zbog toga, shvaćaš. I, da, željela sam vidjeti kako je s njegove strane tog prokletog „ali“, pa makar tamo ostala zauvijek.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“Što se mene tiče, voljeti se može samo nekoga čija te odsutnost može koštati razuma.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“Oni što kopaju, oni valjda mogu zavoljeti samo nedostižno, povremenu uspomenu, možda nešto što ne razumiju. Oni vole izdaleka. Osluškuju. Očajnici zavole druge očajnike, samo nikada one svoje vrste. Nekoga tko ih možda razumije, ali im se ne gadi. Osvetnici zavole nešto čime mogu upravljati. Cinici zavole nešto što im ne može nanijeti bol. A oni koji žele živjeti? Sudeći po sebi, oni zavole ono što nipošto ne smiju. Takvi smo živi, jedino takvi.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“Svaki put kad glasno kažem što mislim, steknem barem jednog prijatelja i barem jednog neprijatelja. Oba iz potpuno krivih razloga.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“Bukščar motoru znači "nek' te motor zgazi". Klkačar šleperu "nek' te zgazi šleper". Mlnšići tuga, "nek' te tuga pojede". Tuga, motor i šleper, ono što te ubije, naše su riječi u njihovim psovkama. Nije slučajno.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“But sometimes my mouth starts saying words without checking with my brain first.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Some people are pretty good at hiding who they really are.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“What do you do when the things that are supposed to protect you, fail you like that”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“I think we all get to decide what good and bad and right and wrong mean to us, not what we’re told to accept.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“But justice doesn’t exist, and the truth doesn’t matter, not in the real world.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Oh, justice exists," Charlie said, looking up at the rain. "Maybe not the kind that happens in police stations and courtrooms, but it does exist. And when you really think about it, those words – good and bad, right and wrong – they don’t really matter in the real world. Who gets to decide what they mean: those people who just got it wrong and let Max walk free? No," he shook his head. "I think we all get to decide what good and bad and right and wrong mean to us, not what we’re told to accept. You did nothing wrong. Don’t beat yourself up for other people’s mistakes.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Fuck likeable. You know who's likeable? People like Max Hastings who walk into a courtroom with fake glasses and charm their way out. I don't want to be like that.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“A quietness settled over the room, a quietness that wasn’t the absence of sound, it was its own living thing, stifling in the spaces between them.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“I've been lying to myself for a while now, trying to separate myself from that person who became so obsessed with finding Andie Bell's killer. Trying to convince everyone else it wasn't really me so I could convince myself. But I think, now, that that is me, And maybe I'm selfish and maybe I'm a liar and maybe I'm reckless and obsessive and I'm OK with doing bad things when it's me doing them and maybe I'm a hypocrite, and maybe none of that is good, but it feels good. It feels like me, and I hope you're OK with all that because... I love you too.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Pip had always been so curious about what was back there, the sort of wonder that dies a little more each year you grow older.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Outside, Pip stopped in the middle of the parking lot and looked up into the sky, clouds hiding the stars from her, hoarding them for themselves.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“She hadn’t almost lost herself, maybe she’d actually been meeting herself for the very first time. And she was tired of feeling guilty about it. Tired of feeling shame about who she was.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“The sky had given her no answers. But there was someone who might; someone who knew her better than she knew herself. She pulled out her phone and dialled.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Wondered whether the moment of no return had already been and gone, or whether this was it, here, right now, hovering above that red button. Either way, going back didn't exist any more, not for her. There was only forward. Only onwards. She straightened up and pressed record.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Older generations, Pip said disapprovingly, they just don't understand the allure of pyjamas. So, what did you want to show us?”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“When the police won’t do anything, I guess you’ve gotta turn to high schoolers instead.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Do you care?” Charlie asked. “Do you care what people think, if you know you’re right?”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“OK, good,’ Pip said, though she couldn’t help but wonder if the Reynoldses had just given her permission to blow up their family, like she had with the Wards and the Bells. They’d come to her, invited her in, but they didn’t really understand the destruction that came in with her, hand-in-hand through that front door which looked like a grinning smile.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Good and bad didn't matter here. There were only winners. And he only won if she let him. That was justice.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Should we call the police?' Connor also stood up.
'I don't trust them,' Pip said. And she never would again, not after all of this, not after Max. They didn't get to be the only ones who decided right or wrong.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“It was done, it was gone. There was no going back now. This was her, and it was OK.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“It was still there, every time she opened the front door. It wasn’t real, she knew that, just her mind filling in the absence, bridging the gap. She heard it: dog claws skittering, rushing to welcome her home. But it wasn’t, it couldn’t be. It was just a memory, the ghost of a sound that had always been there.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Pip understood: it's hard to climb back out of the hole once you've dug in your heels. But surely he was starting to worry?”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“She wanted to go back. SHe wanted to run to him, fall into him, be Team Ravi and Pip and nothing more. Tell him she loved him in all the secret ways they had, hear him speak all those names he had for her in his butter-soft voice.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead