Yeah, well, I decided to try running from my nightmares instead of diving into them headfirst.
And it made me feel empty in a way – like I had forgotten the words to my favorite song. That girl was gone forever, and all that was left was a product of the place that had taught her to fear the bright things inside of her heart.
They were afraid of us – the ones who lived.
You are actually the worst person I have ever met,” Chubs said. “And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.
Dressed as a man, her horse unencumbered by anything but the bare necessities, she had the look of a survivor, a fighter, and he respected the hell our of her for it, especially when she slid the pistol out of one of the saddlebags and aimed it at him.
People don’t live like islands.
When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.
You’re important. You deserve to speak up and have people shut the hell up and listen to you.
Anything can break if you hit it hard enough. Aren’t we all proof of that?
He said he’d never remarry, because he’d never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.
I’m not... I’m not without a heart,′ he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. ‘I’m not. I just don’t have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.
It’s hard to be the person who gets left behind, and never the person who gets to do the leaving.
Chubs gave me a weary sigh. “Frankenstein is the name of the doctor that created the monster, not the monster itself.
My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong – it wasn’t a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.
It shouldn’t surprise me that men continue to think of grand new ways to kill one another, and with greater precision.
I’ve heard some people say life can change in a day, completely flipping you feet over head. But they’re wrong. Life doesn’t need a day to change. It needs three.
If he were to fall over dead, would they just push the body out of the seat and use it as a footrest, do you think?
All cities are jealous of Paris, but Prague is the envy of Paris.
Sometimes we have to bend,” she says, “to survive.
Maybe that’s the whole point-life showing me how good it could be, letting me have it just long enough to want it more than I’ve ever wanted anything else, only to rip it away. When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.