Born Quotes

“I don't need to be saved. I'm the hero of my own story.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“The world has always been a selfish place where love is fleeting and people are fickle. Once upon a time, true love accidentally happened to the fortunate. They polluted and corrupted it, and like everything else, it got sick.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I'm going to be pissed if I walk all the way to the camp and end up getting shot.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I close the door and click the lock. My stomach sinks. I know I'm in for the fight of my life.

She is bait. If ever I've seen bait, she is it.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I can't help but laugh inside at how I still felt safer leaving through the backdoor, even though there is no front or back. There are only doors. They don't go anywhere anymore, because there is no direction.

Nothing goes anywhere.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“Safe is an illusion, and once you believe the illusion, you lose everything.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“Her name is Muriel. I've never heard the name before and I'm afraid she is going to die in the crossfire and I will never hear the name again.

She is twenty-three and has a sister in the breeder farms. She got taken on the way to the towns.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“The tearing of the clothes haunted me in the beginning. The infected tore flesh and the others tore clothes and the sound could swallow you up.
Now I see the greenery and listen to the sounds of the forest, and know I am safe. The forest is my friend. It was a tense relationship in the beginning, but it has earned my trust over time.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I breathe heavily as tears stream from my face. They aren’t fearful tears, they are my rage leaking from me.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I can feel the sickening fear inside of me subside as my instincts take over. Inside of me are animal instincts. They were born in a world I wasn’t. They take over when I need them to. They've taught me how to survive. I have learned it is the most important part of the world I live in.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“in the end when it's taken away, the people who protest or cry the loudest are the ones who have taken it for granted the most.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“There is only so much room inside of people for things. I see that now. I used to have room for many things. Now those things seem unimportant, and the people have taken over the limited amount of space I have.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“The cold thick metal of it makes me feel strong, even though I know what strength is. Strength is not pulling the trigger. At this point I have yet to prove my strength to myself. I always take the coward’s path. Just like my dad told me to.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I've seen it and in the end, when it's taken away, the people who protested or cried the loudest were the ones who had taken it for granted the most.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I just can't stop hurting you.” His words sound broken somehow. They don’t make complete sounds. “You just make me so mad.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“she think was going to happen, Will? What did she think happens to girls who dress like that?”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I just can't stop hurting you.” His words sound broken somehow. They don’t make complete sounds. “You just make me so mad." I”
― Tara Brown, Born

“no matter what, I like him as deeply as I loathe him. It is a problem. I”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I am the hero of my own story.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“Chapter Twenty-One”
― Tara Brown, Born

“The world has always been a selfish place where love is fleeting and people are fickle. Once upon a time, true love accidentally happened tot he fortunate. They polluted and corrupted it, and like everything else, it got sick.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I hear Canada is still free though. They ain't got slaver camps and ships.”
― Tara Brown, Born