The Change Quotes

“They’re beasts!” Animal-man insisted. Again, I let my acceptance show. “So were men, before. The war flipped everything around. It’s not their fault, either.”
― Angela White, The Change

“You’re putting your family at risk for him.” I gave a warmer look, meant only for my mate. “Some things are worth dying for.”
― Angela White, The Change

“Baker grinned, almost a mirror of mine from the games. “Does he know about us?”
― Angela White, The Change

“They have a new group coming in for training, and a lot of the old people have been executed. These new rulers are filling the top rankssss with their own choices.” “Yessss...one of them is particularly loathsome,”
― Angela White, The Change

“Does Candice know he’s a rebel?” “Not that we’re aware of. Baker inheriting it from his father happened while she was at the Time Trials.”
― Angela White, The Change

“They had art and sculptures, some of them vaguely familiar. The one over the table, I recognized right away, but couldn’t remember the name of the awkwardly smiling woman.”
― Angela White, The Change

“The bald reporter I’d recently humiliated gaped at me. “But we sent the note an hour–” “How do you know?” I glowered dangerously as the audience gasped, victorious in my guess. “We didn’t release that information.”
― Angela White, The Change

“Another blade whirled from the top, slicing through part of my hair, and I felt the betrayal keenly.”
― Angela White, The Change

“Angelica took a walk last night and hasn’t returned. Watching for a ransom note.”
― Angela White, The Change

“And our first name for match one is...the Korean Killer!” My nerves loosened a bit, thinking she’d be a decent fight to start my day with. “She’ll be facing Mutt-girl!”
― Angela White, The Change

“My father’s face was growing purple from wanting to silence her, but he held it in, knowing it would make me unhappy.”
― Angela White, The Change

“The Den Mother on duty stared in concern, and I sneered at her beehive of blue hair as the door closed, leaving the reporters to watch the cameras out there like everyone else. They weren’t allowed in.”
― Angela White, The Change

“You smell like chocolate.” My eyes flashed red orbs that I had to pull back before I really did lose control. “I like chocolate.”
― Angela White, The Change

“The East and West coast only got together once every thirty years.”
― Angela White, The Change

“My opponent was the Karate Teen.”
― Angela White, The Change

“Only the heartless were close to the Network, and I suspected the Bombshell would fit the job. Maybe I felt the need to kill her to save the lives that she would take during her reign, but I wouldn’t spare the concentration to examine my own motives.”
― Angela White, The Change

“The contestants are being evaluated by a Network computer designed specifically to determine which one of our players has the best chance to win. Sending them against three fighters in a row is meant to take away the edge of the fittest over those who’ve had less training.”
― Angela White, The Change

“And their prize: A choice! Daniel is a nineteen-year-old bachelor with excellent relief skills and no memory of his life before being sold to the Network. Calm and unaggressive, he has been trained to be the perfect, harmless mate, and now hopes for a loving owner to take him home. “Or... One of the eight other eligible bachelors sharing his quarters. They are lot #21198. Who’s ready to play? Are ya? Are ya really?”
― Angela White, The Change

“I moved back toward those deceptively safe red curtains, and tugged a string to let my cloak fall to the stone floor. Under it, I wore a laced outfit of thin, black strips that left my backside gloriously bare from ears to thighs. There was silence for nearly a full second. It allowed the cameras to zoom in on my scars. I’d been shot, stabbed, bitten, and beaten for years, and I was covered in proof of it. “Wow. That might boost her ranking enough to start the competition with both food and medical credits! Will you look at those scars! Oh! Nice tattoos!” The aroused crowd cheered wildly as I turned to face them, revealing a front view that spider-webbed over my body in a tan glow. I appeared almost nude, except for my weapons that gleamed like deadly jewels and the ink that crossed my back and front.”
― Angela White, The Change

“Everyone was tired of living in the dark, and the games were vivid, brutal, attention-keeping entertainment. The year the first ‘good’ female won, she asked for what all of the population wanted –a mate and a family. In that moment, the Network seized an opportunity. They already owned most of the healthy males on New American soil and charged outrageous prices for the purchase or use of one. When that bloody winner had asked for a mate, the Network changed the rules, making the prize a man. After that, they could pass any law they wanted.”
― Angela White, The Change

“Understanding their population was becoming highly aggressive, the Network began cracking down, forcing people to swear loyalty and work for them.”
― Angela White, The Change

“People from the west preferred to stay there, but it was hard to imagine them attempting the month-long horseback”
― Angela White, The Change

“The speaker faded to another mutter the microphone wasn’t meant to pick up.  “Pull me off this one.” A pause... “Why? I’ll tell you! She’s that Pruett changeling, the one the Network fined a million UDs for hurting a relative when she was only twelve!”
― Angela White, The Change

“The icy façade she would become known for settled over the girl’s heart”
― Angela White, The Change

“The thorn branches withdrew to their proper places in shocked disapproval.”
― Angela White, The Change