Esra > Esra's Quotes

“They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Black Ice

“I’m not chasing after some chick I want to fuck. I’m chasing after a woman I love who isn’t letting me in.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, Faking Normal

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on."-Allison”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“You are a monster.” Kanin’s deep voice droned in my head again, as I forced myself to move, to walk away. “You will always be a monster, there is no turning back from it. But what type of monster you become is entirely up to you.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“There are no good choices, Allison," Kanin offered in a quiet voice. "There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“I have good news and bad news The good news is that the jeep is still where we left it, and I got the damned thing working again."

"What's the bad news?"

"Something took my fuzzy dice.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“Oh, don't mind me," came an extremely sarcastic voice near the wall. “You two go ahead and make out–I'll just sit here and bleed quietly.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“The closer you got to someone, the more it would destroy you when they were inevitably gone.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“We are vampires, Kanin had told me, on one of our last nights together. It makes no difference who we are, where we came from. Princes, Masters and rabids alike, we are monsters, cut off from humanity. They will never trust us. They will never accept us. We hide in their midst and walk among them, but we are forever separate.
Damned. Alone. You don’t understand now, but you will. There will come a time when the road before you splits, and you must decide your path. Will you choose to become a demon with a human face, or will you fight your demon until the end of time, knowing you will forever struggle alone?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“Hunger flickered, always there, but I pushed it down. I was a vampire. Nothing would change that. But I didn't have to be a monster.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“He smiled, a real one this time, though his voice remained teasing. “So, what do you think I am?” Naive, I thought at once. Naive, brave, selfless, incredible and much too kind to survive this world. It’ll break you in the end, if you keep going like this. Good things never last.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“Only death will take me away from you, vampire girl," he whispered. "And even then, I'll watch over you from wherever I end up.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“You're still beautiful and dangerous and incredible, and I'll keep telling you that for as long as it takes you to believe it. But right now, all I want to do is kiss you, except I'm terrified that if I try you might throw me off this balcony.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“He suddenly leaned in, and his fingers brushed my cheek. Warmth flooded my skin, and I frozen, waiting for him to pull back.

He didnt. The tips of his fingers lingered on my cheek for a moment. Then, very slowly, his hand slipped forward, the palm brushing my skin. Frozen, I stared at him, watching his face as his fingers moved from my cheek to my forehead to my chin, like a blind man tracing someone's features to see them in his mind.

"What are you doing to me?" he whispered.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“Yes, poor Darren, forced to cook and clean and do other unmanly things. Next thing you know he’ll be wearing an apron and popping out babies.” He snorted as Darren turned and did something with his hand. “We’re friends, but we’re not that close, Dare.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“I know what it’s like to miss someone. To feel like you’re just…wandering around, lost.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“The lesser of two evils was still evil.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“I sheathed my blade and glared at him. "And here I almost thought you weren't a complete bastard."

"Well, that's your mistake, not mine.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“Now we're going to save a bunch of dirty meatsacks from a bunch of dirty cannibals? Why don't we rescue some orphaned kittens and put food out for stray puppies while we're at it?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“I wasn't thinking of his blood, rushing just below the skin. I wasn't thinking of his heartbeat or his touch or the pulse at his throat. Right now, all I was thinking of was Zeke.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“It is useless to offer words of hope when you have none yourself.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“This would be so much easier if [Allie] hadn't killed the jeep."
"For the last time," I growled at [Jackal]. "I just pointed out the street that wasn't blocked off. I didn't leave those nails on the road for you to drive over.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Forever Song

“There will come a time when man is no longer concerned only with survival, when he will once more be curious as to who came before him, what life was like a thousand years ago, and he will seek out answers for a hundred years or so, but humans' curiosity has always driven them to find answers.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“I would not suffer anyone to endure the path I walk. My road must always be traveled alone.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules