Lexi Brooke > Lexi's Quotes

“You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."

Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine.

"These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Glass

“Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Act
on your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the gun to your chest.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“Well, spit on my empty grave--if it ain't the attack of the Disney princesses!”
― Amy Plum, Die for Me

“Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

“I'm a revenant, not a vampire, chérie." ~ Vincent Delacroix”
― Amy Plum, Die for Me

“The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just a part of it.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, The Replacement

“Kate, I want you to know that I awoke the first time I saw you.”
― Amy Plum, If I Should Die

“Kate, I honestly don't know how Vincent puts up with you. You are... infuriating.”
― Amy Plum, Until I Die

“That was my favorite dagger."
She had a favorite dagger? Seriously? And she thought that I was a freak.”
― Jennifer Estep, Touch of Frost

“Avoidance is a wonderful therapy”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“She was laughing even as we kissed and kissed again. There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“She looked . . . whole. With him.”
― Kiersten White, Perfect Lies

“It’s an alien.”

“Sand crab,” Leon said. “It won’t hurt you.”

“It sure is ugly.”

“Ugly never hurt a thing.”

I scoffed. “Oh, ugly has hurt some things. It’s just that pretty hurts more.”

“Amen.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“But I’d known when I started this whole thing that we were different in this important way: Isabel had spent her teen years caring who touched her, and I hadn’t.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“Don't take this the wrong way, but all my life you've been the weirdest person I've ever met. That doesn't make you not a real person. In fact, it makes you pretty goddamn specific.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, The Replacement

“I’m gay,” I said, not sure how else to say it.
“You’re fifteen,” she said. “You can’t be gay.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“Here was the thing: I was in love with Cole.

Or had been. Or was going to be. I couldn’t tell the difference.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“She is my inspiration. My muse. My obsession.”
― Amy Plum, Die for Her

“Saturday, three o’clock,” I confirmed as he turned and walked away. I don’t think it would be exaggerating much to say that my feet didn’t touch the ground the whole way home.”
― Amy Plum, Die for Me

“Then I felt his breath on my ear as he said, voice barely audible, “‘I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.’” He paused, long, the only sound his breath, a little ragged, before he went on, “‘And I want, in those silent, somehow faltering times, to be with someone who knows, or else alone. I want to reflect everything about you, and I never want to be too blind or too ancient to keep your profound wavering image with me. I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because there, where I’m folded, I am a lie.’”

I turned my face toward his voice, eyes still fast shut, and he put his mouth on mine. I felt his lips pull from mine slightly, just for a moment, and heard the rustle of the book laid gently on the floor, and then he wrapped his arms around me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“I escape to my bedroom and feed my pet eels some chopped boiled eggs. Aphrodite and Adonis perform a graceful dance, entwining their bodies, capturing the food as it floats down like they're lovers catching snowflakes on their tongues.”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged

“Little blossom trapped in between, wearing malice like a queen;
hide the truth, be cruel and tart,
still all the more, you rule my heart.”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged

“Hello, luv," he says through a thick curtain of blue hair. "Hope I'm...interrupting.”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged

“Nothing can break the chains you have on my heart. For you are Wonderland.”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged

“Morpheus turns his face to the sky. “I’m afraid you’re the one who’s mistaken, if you think I’m going to let Wonderland fall to rot so you can play ‘pin the male on the virgin’ with your mortal toy.”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged