Out of Control Quotes

“So we have twenty-four hours to keep out of trouble,’ he says to me.
I slide a glance in his direction. Judging from the way he’s now grimacing at the sidewalk and the fact that I met him in a police station where he was being booked for stealing a car, I’m guessing that staying out of trouble is not his forte.”
― Sarah Alderson, Out of Control

“Trust me,’ he says with a touch of impatience.
‘Stop asking me to do that,’ I say, equally as impatiently.”
― Sarah Alderson, Out of Control

“. ‘Because off-duty cops walk around the city wearing sweatshirts advertising they’re cops all the time, never mind it’s a hundred degrees outside. And never mind you look like the youngest cop ever recruited in the history of policing.’
He tsks at me. ‘Have you never seen 21 Jump Street?”
― Sarah Alderson, Out of Control

“I need a favour.’
I raise my eyebrows at him in disbelief. What makes him think I’m about to do him a favour? He’s a stranger. And he’s wearing handcuffs.”
― Sarah Alderson, Out of Control

“I wasn't in control of it. I can't control life. The only thing I can do is open myself up and accept everything it throws at me, wholeheartedly. Defiantly. I don't get to quit, not when so many other people didn't even get the chance.”
― Sarah Alderson, Out of Control

“He talked me through the fear that had me paralysed and sobbing. He showed me that fear was nothing but a product of my imagination and that I could make it go away by changing my thoughts, taking control of them, and showing the fear who was boss. Fear became an animal that I could put on a leash and lock away in a cage.”
― Sarah Alderson, Out of Control