Zara Wells > Zara's Quotes

“This was the absolute worst way to die. Mid-squat-pissing behind a tree while Maddy’s axe-murderer charged at her from the front. Dignified till the”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“I’m sorry I didn’t try harder to protect you. I’m sorry I never got to tell you. I’m sorry I never kissed you.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“One sniper. One gun. One red dot. And one liar.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Yeah, that sniper won’t know what’s hit him when I slowly charge at him with my Gillette razor.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“You're okay,' Red told her, because Maddy had said it to her before, and maybe it was just the thing you said to people who weren't okay.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Was that fair? Maybe Red’s understanding of it was skewed, because it didn’t seem fair at all, her life in the hands of five other people. But when had life ever been fair to her, why should death be any different?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Oh, cool,’ Simon said, between bites. ‘Didn’t know the Mafia was still a thing, I love The Godfather. “Revenge is a dish best served cold,”’ he said in a dreadful Italian American accent.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“My name is Arthur,” he said, pausing, eyes flicking to Red, latching on. “Arthur Gotti.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Oh, come on,’ Simon interjected. ‘This is turning into Lord of the Fucking Flies. We’re going to end up killing each other, forget about the sniper.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“If only it had been that easy, Oliver. Throw money at the problem.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“If she’d lost her mind, then Oliver must have lost his hours ago. How could he ask his little sister to do that? To leave the RV in full view of the sniper? It was madness.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Oliver Charles Lavoy. “Madeline Joy Lavoy. “Reyna Flores-Serrano. “Arthur Grant Moore. “Simon Jinsun Yoo. “Redford Kenny.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Little Red Kenny, poor as dirt and a dead mom, but she had potential, hadn’t you heard?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“I will only ask you one more time!’ he screamed, and the knife glinted at her. ‘Take off your clothes!”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“What a ridiculous word that was. Fine. She was undressing at knifepoint and there was a sniper outside and she was supposed to be dead. But she was fine, you know?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Want to know a secret?” Arthur said, his voice dipping into whispers, eyes flashing from behind his glasses. “I think you’re smarter.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“You’re the leader, the most high-value person here. What is your brilliant plan to escape the active shooter out there in the pitch-black who can see us but we can’t see him?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“That was my goodbye, I guess, my way of fixing it, taking her out of the world, so at least if you were gone then she was gone too.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“I would welcome death, if it wasn’t for my promise to Lenore Dove that I would somehow keep the sun from rising on the reaping.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.” — David Hume”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“You were capable of imagining a different future. And maybe it won’t be realized today, maybe not in our lifetime. Maybe it will take generations. We’re all part of a continuum. Does that make it pointless?”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling
the truth. I don’t think this matters so long as
one knows what one is doing, and why.” — George Orwell”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Fire is catching, she’d say, but if this one burns down the arena, I say good riddance.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“And that’s part of our trouble. Thinking things are inevitable. Not believing change is possible.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“She’s not an easy person; she’s like me, Peeta always says. But she was smarter than me, or luckier.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I love you like all-fire.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“They will not use my tears for their entertainment.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde