Lilly > Lilly's Quotes

“Are you saying that it hurts to look at me?' 'I'm saying you're the first sunlight I've glimpsed in a long time,' he said.”
― Stephanie Archer, The Vampire Games

“I may have been beautiful, but I was still a fighter. I couldn't erase my weeks of training. And being decorated inflowers didn't change that.”
― Stephanie Archer, The Vampire Games

“A quote from Sacha Guitry came to mind: 'Watching someone sleep is like reading a letter that is not addressed to you.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“Laurent was fascinated by her reflections which followed on one from the other, random, touching, zany, sensual.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“What was she like, this Laure who enjoyed having lunch in the garden, was frightened of red ants, dremt she was making love to her pet which had been transformed into a man, and had a signed Patrick Modiano?

She was an enigma. It was like looking at someone through a fogged-up window. her face was like one encountered in a dream, whose features disolve as soon as you try to recall them.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“Chloe sighted, then continued, 'She's very attached to the past - the mirror is ancient, a famili heirloom; perhaps it was her grandmother's. And she uses an unusual perfume - no one wears Habanita any more - she writes weird things in her notebook, she has a book signed by an author you admire...' Then she concluded with an ironic smile, 'She's the woman for you.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“If there was one thing thing that defined adolescence it was hysterical laughter. You never laughed like that again. In adolescence the brutal realisation that the world and life were completely absurd made you laugh until you couldn't catch your breath, whereas in later life it would only result in a weary sight.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“There, it was over. How was it so easy to disappear from someone else's life? Perhaps it was with the same ease that you enter it. A chance meeting, a few words exchanged, and a relationship begins. A chance falling out, a few words exchanged and that same relationship is over.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“To quote Patrick Modiano, whom you you seem to like, in Villa Triste, 'There are mysterious beings, always the same, who watch over us at each crossroads in our lives.' Let's just say that, unintentionally, I have been one of those beings.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“It's the story of a bookseller who finds a handbag in the street one day, takes it home with him, empties out its contents and decides to look for the woman who owns it. He succeeds but when he finds her, he runs off like an idiot.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“My parents always told me not get in the car with strangers.” Actually, that was a lie; dad always said get in then pull the knife and rob them. Being a minor, you don’t get charged as harshly.”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“Men have two emotions love and hate. They either love something to death or they hate something till it’s dead.”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“Some of the best moments in life are ones where the reality has been twisted out, and for those few beautiful tainted hours, reality has no place. The past, present, and future don't matter because you’re in this black hole; escaping the death grip of reality and all the consequences it brings, and sometimes it only takes a small thing to pull you back to reality.”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“I’ve always wanted to be claimed by a reaper,”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“They say that couples balance each other out, like yin and yang. That the bad things one does is balanced out with the kind things the other one does. If this is the case, Reaper and I were screwed.”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“I came back harder then I left. I come back a bit more soulless. I come back more Reaper, then Kade.”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“I needed something to drink. I needed...I fall back on the bed, my mind racing. I needed to turn back time and never fall in love with the Reaper.”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“He ran his hand through his hair and groaned. “I wish I didn’t fucking care about you; this would make it all a whole lot fucking easier.”

“Oh yes, poor you for once in your life you experience an emotion.”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“You know how there are moments in life, where you just wished you could hold on to it for a bit longer and make the time tick slower to let that moment last longer without anything ruining it? As Abby slept with her head on my chest and one arm around me, that was exactly how I felt. I wanted the moment to last forever.”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“Love comes and goes. Sometimes you think you’re in love when really you are just hung up on someone who will one day only be a memory”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“You broke my fucking heart and now,” I pulled the trigger, and he hissed, falling to the ground. I dropped to my knees, pulling his head back, and looking him in the eye.

“You tore my heart to pieces; now I hope you can feel some of the pain I’ve felt for the last three months. And harden the fuck up, it’s only a bullet in the foot.”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“If anyone has a problem with it, raise your fucking hand so I can shoot it off”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“Love. It was one word. But it was more powerful than hurricane, tornado or earthquake. It was life-shattering and life-defining.”
― Simone Elise, Reaper's Claim

“Let’s dispel this bloody stupid myth of love at first sight, all this tear-jerking romance you see in films, all this overwhelming passion. They’re feelings I just can’t conceive of, which are capable of reducing an individual who was previously perfectly self-sufficient into a human wreck suffering from all the most worrying psychiatric disorders, from obsessive-compulsive disorder to abandonment anxiety.”
― Celia Hayes

“There is a holistic approach to global travel that will fundamentally change you as a person.”
― Gregory V. Diehl, Travel as Transformation: Conquer the Limits of Culture to Discover Your Own Identity

“To operate as oneself is to create a specific kind of change in the pursuit of one’s own satisfaction. Armed with that principle, every day is a chance to grow the scale of its implementation.”
― Gregory V. Diehl, Travel as Transformation: Conquer the Limits of Culture to Discover Your Own Identity

“The world is a book of many pages waiting to be read. The self is a library of ancient tomes written in languages you cannot fully understand. You grow accustomed with the characters you find on the first shelf and never get to know what remains on the vast arena of you.”
― Gregory V. Diehl, Travel as Transformation: Conquer the Limits of Culture to Discover Your Own Identity

“Do whatever is difficult until it is no longer difficult. Let yourself grow into all the ways you are capable of being.”
― Gregory V. Diehl, Travel as Transformation: Conquer the Limits of Culture to Discover Your Own Identity