L.J. Greene > L.J.'s Quotes

“He did recognize that this certainty was, in fact, a form of defiance. He was still being defiant. But Love is defiance, he argued right back. It was the single greatest act of defiance in all the world, from the beginning of time.”
― L.J. Greene, A Fall of Light

“I had never been one to blindly trust the universe to award favor based on merit, but it felt like a cruel joke that we should be given a Trojan horse when we’d merely asked for a pony.”
― L.J. Greene, Sound Effects

“There are no words to describe the silence that follows. I can only say this: I’ve never been stabbed. But now I can imagine how it feels. The blade slides in with such precision, such sharpness that at first, there’s no pain – not even a full realization of what has transpired. Then slowly, as it recedes, the dawning occurs - a shocking, detached understanding of one’s own frailty. And with it comes the evidence that life is now free to flow from the body, painfully and unchecked, until there’s nothing left to give.”
― L.J. Greene, Ripple Effects

“To what do we owe the pleasure, Ally? Oh, that’s right,” he said mildly, as if he were suddenly remembering. “Nepotism.”
― L.J. Greene, Side Effects