Julianna Baggott > Quotes

“Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.”
― Julianna Baggott, Girl Talk

“Memories are like water.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“We each have a story. They did this to us. There was no outside aggressor. They wanted an Apocalypse. They wanted the end. And they made it happen. It was orchestrated - who got in, who didn't. There was a master list. We weren't on it. We were left here to die. They want to erase us, the past, but we can't let them.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.”
― Julianna Baggott, Girl Talk

“Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“-Se supone que solo te quedarías con nosotros por tu propio bien, por razones egoístas. Me dijiste que tenías una.
-Y la tengo.
-¿Y cuál es?
-Tú eres mi razón egoísta.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.”
― Julianna Baggott, Fuse

“—Cuando te conocí, pensé que estábamos hecho el uno para el otro, a pesar de que, en algunos sentidos, parecíamos muy distintos y no parábamos de pelearnos. Pero ahora...

—¿El qué?

—Ahora no creo que estemos hechos el uno para el otro, sino que nos estamos haciendo el uno al otro, para convertirnos en las personas que seremos. ¿Sabes a lo que me refiero.”
― Julianna Baggott, Fuse

“Recuerdo que lo feo es lo que hace que lo bonito sea bonito.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“I prefer true over happy now.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“—Es bonita la cicatriz —le dice el chico.
El corazón le da un vuelco y se lleva la cabeza de muñeca al pecho.
—¿Bonita? Es una cicatriz.
—Es una señal de haber sobrevivido.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.”
― Julianna Baggott, Fuse

“She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.”
― Julianna Baggott, Fuse

“If home isn't a place, what is it?'

'A feeling.”
― Julianna Baggott, Fuse

“I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“Our love is our burden.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“Scars are good. Right, Helmud? It's the body's way of making armour.”
― Julianna Baggott, Burn

“La suerte es relativa.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“These are the little things that people should really appreciate, simple pleasures.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“The world is frenzied—giving and taking.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“Los niños quieren a sus padres, aunque estos no se lo merezcan; es inevitable.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.”
― Julianna Baggott, Fuse

“I screamed. You told me not to.” He rubs at the soot on one hand with his thumb, then stares at it. “The dirt,” he says, his voice strangely peaceful.
“What about it?” she asks. “It’s dirty.”
― Julianna Baggott, Pure

“But she's still afraid that the more she misses him--his face, his skin, the way he looked at her--and the more hope she has that she'll see him again, the more she has to lose.”
― Julianna Baggott, Fuse