Ilsa J. Bick Quotes

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Those brain-zapped kids weren't the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

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Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?" She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance. Instead, he kissed her.

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As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart, honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

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She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

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There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

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Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don't because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn't look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

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They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.

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But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

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The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

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So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

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My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

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The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

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