Lyra Kane (Cassie Hobbes) > Lyra's Quotes

“You never stopped dancing,” Grayson said behind her. “Every time you move, you dance.” “I do not.” Arguing with him was the easiest thing in the world. “It’s there in the way you hold your head, like there’s music the rest of us can’t hear.” Grayson Hawthorne was a natural debater. “Every step you take, every twist, every turn, every pissed-off whirl.” He could have stopped there and won. He didn’t. “The way you stand,” he continued mercilessly, “one foot slightly in front of the other. The way you lift your heels off the ground when you’re deep in thought, like it’s everything you can do not to rise all the way to the tips of your toes. The spread of your fingers when your hands hang loose by your side. The lines of your body when you stretch those hands overhead.” The chandelier, Lyra thought. “Believe me, Lyra Kane.” Grayson’s voice was deeper now. “You never stopped dancing.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“All of us had a way of regaining the control that life had taken away from us. For Sloane, it was numbers. For Lia, it was keeping her true self buried beneath layers of lies. Michael intentionally provoked anger instead of waiting for someone else’s fuse to blow. Dean did everything he could to keep his emotions in check. And I use knowing things about people as an excause to keep them from knowing me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Just pitch, Bennett. You've got this, kid.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“Miss Lewis wants to burn down the world. - Ed Cooper”
― Ellie Marney, None Shall Sleep

“You don't try to tame the lightning, son. You just give it the respect it deserves.”
― Ellie Marney, None Shall Sleep

“One: He's Michael. Two: he's scheduled for a meltdown. Three: Lia had been miss Rosy Sunshine since she got downstairs, and Lia doesn't do roses or sunshine unless she's screwing with someone or deeply upset.
-Dean Redding”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , Bad Blood

“I love you," Lia said softly. There was something intense in her tone, something vulnerable. No muss, no fuss, no misdirection. "Even when I don't want to, I do.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Also—thanks to Taylor Swift, for writing songs that feel like books.”
― Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

“For keeps." -Binding 13”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“You say distraction," Henry deadpanned, "Asher hears 'flash mob'.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Long Game

“Sometimes people don't mean what they say," he interrupted. "Did she look like she meant it, dipshit?"
"Geez, Mick, I don't know," I said, offhandedly wondering how the hell this bizarre conversation with Mick Boche could be happening.
And also—no, she didn't look like she meant it.
She'd cried while she told me she needed a break.
"And sometimes people do things they don't want to do. That they feel like they have to do.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“She’s going to be fine,” Dean muttered. “I’m going to have a heart attack.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Each passing second is a ruin. I've been shot; stabbed; I've been hollowed out. This is a thousand times worse. - Mare, page 354.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“You're safe; you're safe; it's over”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“Get through it.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“If it isn't too late for me, it isn't too late for you.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“I would rather be punished for making the right decision than live with the guilt of making the wrong one for the rest of my life.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities

“And I'm the only one with a plan," Fitz reminded them.
"Hey- I've got plans," Keefe argued.
"Plans that don't involve tormenting Dame Alina," Fitz clarified.
"But those are always the best plans!”
― Shannon Messenger, Everblaze

“I'm guessing you know where things stand, Cal" she says.
His response is almost too quick. "I do."
Farley bites her lip. "And?"
A long rush of static drones, before he speaks again. "Mare?"
The radio is in my hand before I can even think to ask for it.
"I'm here," I say, locking eyes with him across a canyon.
"Is it too late?"
The question has too many implications to count.
Purple, white, green, and blue flash through the clouds, enough to penetrate the mist and blind us all for a moment. Shutting my eyes, I smile with the burst of energy as it thrums through me.
When the lightning passes, I answer him, and everything he means.
"No, it isn't," I tell him, before returning the radio to Farley.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“I tried, Mare.”
― Victoria Aveyard

“I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.”
― Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.”
― Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.”
― Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry
a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.”
― Ally Carter, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them”
― Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, "They really...exist?"
"Liz," I whispered back, "they're not unicorns."
"No," Bex said flatly, "they're boys. And they're...good.”
― Ally Carter, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something?
--Z
P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind.

Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry)”
― Ally Carter, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“Zach,” I said as I lay there “Where did you go? When you were looking for me?”
I shifted in his arms, looked into his eyes.
“Crazy.” His voice was a whisper against my skin. “I went crazy.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.'

He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.'

'Oh.' I nodded. 'Right. So you're a trained Peeping Tom.'

'Product of the best peeping academies in the country.'

'Well, now I feel much better.'

'You should.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time