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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4055d7a | What? Look at my newly mutilated flesh? Screw you! | Julie Kenner | ||
| fa26b40 | She stared at the dark shimmer of glass that faced the street. The Clares never pulled curtains. They were comftorable with the dark. But there was another kind of dark. The darkness of minds full of hate. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| ab3b6ae | I actually thought you would be kind," said the vampire. "Go away!" screamed Devnee. He did not answer. "I didn't have to be kind," Devnee told him. "Victoria was kind for me." He laughed. "No one can be kind for you, my dear," said the vampire. "But I don't mind, of course. I have you now. There's no escape, my dear. You and I, Devnee Fountain, are a team." | kindness vampire | Caroline B. Cooney | |
| 45be5b3 | Listen to the sea...it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 567a44b | She wanted love, adventure, and wild, fierce emotions that would batter her, as storms battered the island. I am thirteen, Christina thought, I am ready. I want it all. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 7a6ae1f | Don't they look like ancient island princesses, marked out for sacrifice? Sent away for the sake of the islanders, to be given to the sea? | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 9b51cde | I have this terrible fear of fractions," Christina told him. ... "Miss Schuyler thinks she can conquer it. Also a fear of running out of popcorn. Nothing could be worse than going to a movie and they don't have any popcorn, you know?" | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 42e3cb3 | She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines. | depression lonely lose love sad weak | Caroline B. Cooney | |
| 6a5bfd9 | It was like crawling on glass. No matter how firmly she resolved not to think such stupid things, she thought them. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 5ed1114 | Her parents kissed her on each side. Her mother took both her hands now and held them against her cheek, as if in prayer. "We tried everything to get Hannah out. We took her on long vacations, we sent her to live with my cousin in Atlanta, we tried traditional church. But she went to California to join the temple commune. There was nothing we could do. The law wasn't on our side, Hannah wasn't on our side. The cult even had armed bodyguards.. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 5a671f6 | But West, like the rest of the Trevors, was endlessly polite. It gave them protection; they could stand neatly behind their courtesy. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| d22b044 | Brooklyn is a big fat blob with its own ugly shape across from Manhattan; it looks like Jabba the Hutt counting his money. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 8d5b0cf | Do you know about lock picking?" "I'm sure it's like sex." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 431a4d7 | Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| a922de9 | Well, my dad died when I was three." Shoot. That's right. Some of us have actual things to complain about." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| e57038c | A doctor comes into 22. She has long, dark hair and a pudgy face and bright green eyes. "Hey." "I'm Dr. Data." "Dr. Data?" "Yes." Huh. I want to ask her if she's an android, but that wouldn't be very respectful; and besides, I'm not up to it." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| d0c4b30 | I'm waiting for her to say "Craig, what you need to do is X" and for the Shift to occur. I want there to be a Shift so bad." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| a72ce24 | Bobby sips his coffee. "If there wasn't coffee on this earth, I'd be dead." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| bf2e713 | I smile to myself. I have a secret: I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| e6c7ace | But it suddenly makes sense: I'd like to be under the sea, as an octopus. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 1572032 | Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on yourself." "Okay." "Only then does healing take place." "All right." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 05c155a | I look up at her, rolling her mouth and smiling down. I look at the map. It's not a brain, clearly; it's a map; can't she see the rivers and highways and interchanges? But I see how it could look like a brain, like if all roads were twisted neurons, pulling your emotions from one place to another, bringing the city to life. A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's th.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| f265b51 | There's great stuff in there. There's a disease called Ondine's Curse, in which your body loses the ability to breathe involuntarily. Can you imagine? You have to think "breathe, breathe" all the time, or you stop breathing. Most people who get it die." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 55233af | That means you start today. This is an opportunity for you to explore your interests. So I ask you: what are your hobbies?" Bad question, Monica. "I don't have any." "Aha. None at all?" "No." I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think .. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| ed2097b | People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2b2f359 | The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, | Ned Vizzini | ||
| a6187dd | Run. Eat. Drink. Eat more. Don't throw up. Instead, take a piss. Then take a crap. Wipe your butt. Make a phone call. Open a door. Rid your bik. Ride in a car. Ride in a subway. Talk. Talk to people. Read. Read maps. Make maps. Make art. Talk about your art. Sell your art. Take a test. Get into a school. Celebrate. HAve a party. Write a thank-you note to someone. Hug your mom. Kiss your dad. Kiss your little sister. Make out with Noelle. Ma.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| a300eff | Good. Because right now I don't have you pegged as a yuppie. You're something else. I'm not sure what you are, but I'm going to find out." "Cool." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| b7bd7a3 | It's funny how people ask that as soon as they get you on the phone. I think it's a byproduct of cell phones: people--girls and moms especially--want to nail you down in physical space. The fact is that you could be anywhere on a cell phone and it shouldn't be important where you are. But it becomes the first thing people ask. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 96ceca1 | Craig, where are you?" It's funny how people ask that as soon as they get you on the phone. I think it's a byproduct of cell phones: people--girls and moms especially--want to nail you down in physical space. The fact is that you could be anywhere on a cell phone and it shouldn't be important where you are. But it becomes the first thing people ask." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 7f9371d | I was never big on rage" "Why?" "It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside." ." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 5f68485 | I was still getting 93's, but what the hell, someone had to get them. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 759c0f0 | And you shouldn't assume that everything is always about you. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| e4a967e | Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 6003e16 | Nia, it wasn't about you." "Are you sure?" I look down, and the answer is right there in my chest and it's resounding. "Yes. I have bigger problems than you." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| dacaf9e | How could I ask for "horse" with a straight face? And, if I were doing heroin, then I'd be a depressed teenager on heroin. I didn't need to be that cliche." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2c7232f | Something deep in my guts, below my heart, has made a shift to the left and settled in a more comfortable place. It's not the Shift, but it's a shift. I picture Nia with her gorgeous face and little body and black hair and pouty lips and Aaron's hands all over her but also with her pot smoking and the pimples on her forehead and making fun of people all the time and the way she's always so proud of how she's dressed. And I picture her fadin.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 8da06ed | I picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.' 'Why?' 'Because embers turn into flames. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 0a3953a | found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| d8fe1d5 | The people are Anchors," I say. "People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 70f0baa | Up next is Noelle. 'Hey, girl!' 'Don't you dare start calling me that. This is very nice of you to do. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 072cbd8 | It started with blogs; now, through social media, anyone who is active on the internet creates a digital projection of themselves for public consumption. We are all stars, all heroes in our own online productions. What does this do for our authenticity? It destroys it. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| e35cc59 | But, um, I kind of wondered if I could have your phone number, so I can call you when we're out of here.' She smiles and her cuts outline her face like a cat's whispers. 'Crafty.' 'I am a guy,' I say. 'And I hate boys,' she says. 'But a guy's different,' I say. 'Maybe a little,' she says. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 31b7efe | I'm asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I'm asking for something that no politics is going to provide, something that probably you only get in preschool. | Ned Vizzini |