Ann Aguirre Quotes

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There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn't notice that the heart is gone.

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People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don't change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.

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You ever have that feeling? Like you've known someone your whole life but you don't know them at all.

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Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

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I know just how he feels that it's come to this. Sometimes, love isn't enough, even when it's all you have.

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Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.

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There's a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

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My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.

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I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

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He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

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I imagine the ones we've lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that's terrifying, and sometimes it's reassuring, a promise of homecoming.

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We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.

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I've lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

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I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.

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My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.

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I have had passionate kisses and fierce ones, kisses so sweet they tasted like pure honey and kisses that cut like knives, but until this moment, I've never had one that said both hello and good-bye.

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People try to make sense of things, and if they don't know the answers, they make them up, because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

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People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

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As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the V of another guy's thighs. Falling, he makes a noise that I can't say I've heard a human utter before, sort of like I imagine a puppy would sound being put through a juicer.

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Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.

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His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.

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Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

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We're bound by chains of love, but they don't weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.

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I'm as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.

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Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It's like standing before him... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.

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Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.

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I know you have bad news, I say softly. I'm ready for it. But that's not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.

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Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he's seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you're still alone.

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You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination. That would have to do.

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Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

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