Anomaly Quotes

“In the end, dying isn’t the hard part. Everyone always treats death like it’s such a traumatic ordeal. But death is quiet and unless it happens instantaneously, it comes up to you like an old friend and wraps itself around you and just holds you there. It cradles you as you let your fear envelope you and burn through you. But you can only struggle against the inevitable for so long, and once you get over the panic and accept what’s happening to you, it’s actually almost kind of pleasant.

No…death isn’t hard.

Living, however…now that’s the real ass-kicker.”
― Kimberly Gourgon, Anomaly

“Why do boys kiss girls?

Because they like them.

Do girls kiss boys because they like them too?

…Usually…”
― Kimberly Gourgon, Anomaly

“Let's do this thing!”
― Kimberly Gourgon, Anomaly

“The moment had drawn us together like magnets, planetary masses caught in the same gravitational field. I could feel the pulse of his warm breath against my cheeks, caressing my cold lips.
I should have pulled away.
I had every intention of pulling away.
I wasn’t pulling away.”
― Kimberly Gourgon, Anomaly

“Every word from Kismet’s mouth sounded like poetry spoken with the most fervent passion one could conjure up. I couldn’t understand how he could stand to have such intensity building inside him. I watched, captivated by each breath in between his words. I found myself tracing the lines of his face over and over and leaning into him.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, Anomaly

“Each of us was completely oblivious as to how much things were about to go to hell.”
― Kimberly Gourgon, Anomaly

“Let's do this thing!”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, Anomaly

“When we were young his hands had been soft but now they were a man's hands, with rough palms and coarse fingertips, but they were still as careful as ever.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, Anomaly

“If I reach behind my hair, just at the nape of my neck, I can feel it; the slight bump of the tiny electronic device that the men who invaded New Haven surgically implanted in me. Other chips were placed in the rest of the children stolen from the facility. As far as I can tell, they’re a means of keeping tabs on us…and for most they’re meant to neutralize the gifts we were born with.

What they meant to do and what they actually did, however, were far removed from each other.”
― Kimberly Gourgon, Anomaly

“I could feel it then like I feel it now, like a palpable thing inside me, like a physical touch; what we shared was not accidental and nothing close to normal. It was not imagined or fabricated out of loneliness or the conditions under which we were brought to New Haven. It was given to us, meant only for us. It was a gift much like the "special gifts" that brought us to New Haven.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, Anomaly

“The underlying mechanics of the relationship between ACT and the Anomalies became perfectly clear:

We were right to hide from them.

And they were right to fear us.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, Anomaly

“Once more, we were to start anew in the world. I was afraid they would come back for me if they realized that their devices were faulty, so I played their game. I pretended to forget New Haven. I pretended to forget my friends. I even pretended to forget Chase. Most importantly, I pretended that I couldn’t feel the emotions of those around me or bend the laws of gravity with my mind.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, Anomaly

“I don’t remember my life before being brought to New Haven.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, Anomaly