Ann Aguirre Quotes

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He's worth fighting for, but I won't change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.

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If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed

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Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.

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Right now, I wish I'd stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don't mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don't need me. You don't lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.

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I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

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I'd never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.

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Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.

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He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

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This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

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He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.

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My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy... or so scared.

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After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

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I swept down the stairs to find Fade waiting for me at the bottom. His dark eyes widened, and for the first time since I'd known him, he was speechless. He stared up at me like I was everything he ever wanted.

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He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

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It's easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.

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The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.

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Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.

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Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.

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In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.

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Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn't fit anymore.

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If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.

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I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.

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Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don't take anything away. A relationship shouldn't impose limits—and if it does, then it's wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.

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Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

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But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

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Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

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I sighed. 'It's hard. You're the only one who listens to what I have to say.' Longshot dropped a gentle, comforting arm around my shoulders. 'Then speak louder, girl. Don't let them put out your spark.

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I always have someplace else I'd rather be, even if I don't know where that is, yet.

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Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.

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I don't like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn't choose to tell them.

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