Icons Quotes

“I am powerful because of who and what I am. Not because of who I am not.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“A love so strong, you can’t tell where you end and the other person begins.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“i know how it makes you feel...peaceful, permanent, unbroken”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“Ro trails his hands against the wall as he walks. The archivists look at him as he passes. Ro is good at irritating people; he'll find the one thing you don't want him to do, and do it every time. It's one of his many gifts.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“My thief of junk. Climber of mountains. Builder of worlds.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“Furo Costas. The Rager. You, my friend, are an imbecile. You could have killed me twenty times, on the Tracks. I'm surprised you're not dead."
Ro shrugs, happily. It's nothing he hasn't heard before, and nothing he doesn't see as a compliment.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“YOU CAN'T KNEEL TO A LORD WHO WILL NOT SHOW HIS FACE.
YOU CAN'T PRAY TO A GOD WHO HATES THE HUMAN RACE.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“The way I feel now— broken and empty and depleted— this is what happens when I let the feelings come.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“Lucas motions to Ro’s ears, where the blood is spattering down to his shoulders. “Let’s just get this done before our heads explode.” Ro considers him for a long moment, then hands him Tima’s map.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“Ro winks. "I forgive you, Dol-face."
Then, without a word, he takes off running and I have no choice but to follow.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“They aren't perfect. They aren't much. They didn't grow me in their bellies or a lab or adopt me through the embassy. I don't know the total truth about them, or the truth behind the truths. But it doesn't matter. For better, for worse, here we are. What we have is one another.
This is my family now.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“Here's a question for you, Ro. Since when did you become such an ***?"
Now he looks at me. Finally. When he does his face is so open I wish he hadn't. "Since I fell in love with a girl named sorrow, I guess. Should have seen that one coming."
There.
He said it.
Love.
He loves me.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“I used to think about how alike we all are. The human race, those of us who survived. Then I thought, if the stories were true and there were other Icon Children—if I met any—we would understand each other perfectly, the way Ro and I so often do.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons

“Perhaps there is something more frightening than love itself.”
― Margaret Stohl, Icons