Emily Suvada > Quotes

“When you love someone for their mind, you can't expect that their heart will belong to you too.”
― Emily Suvada, This Mortal Coil

“It’s funny, that saying—I’d rather die. It’s funny because nobody means it. The truth is that when you’re facing death, there’s no telling what you’ll do.”
― Emily Suvada, This Mortal Coil

“Reading the genetic code behind a feather or a cell can make you feel like you’re reading poetry written by God.”
― Emily Suvada, This Mortal Coil

“This is what leading people means, Jun Bei. It's not always about marching them to victory. Sometimes it's about standing with them when they fall.”
― Emily Suvada, This Vicious Cure

“Most of human behavior and its relationship to DNA is still undiscovered territory. We know what genes make rats afraid of eagles, and we know why birds fly south in the winter, but the complexities of human nature are still a mystery to science.”
― Emily Suvada, This Mortal Coil

“I meant what I said, just so you know. I’ll break your fingers if you touch me.”
― Emily Suvada, This Mortal Coil

“There's no point in fighting for a future when we won't be able to live with the things we did to reach it.”
― Emily Suvada, This Vicious Cure

“If there is a design that underpins us, Catarina, then it is cold, it is violent, and it is cruel.”
― Emily Suvada, This Cruel Design

“Whatever people do to animals, they'll eventually do to their enemies. And whatever they do to their enemies, they'll eventually do to one another.”
― Emily Suvada, This Vicious Cure

“What a couple you two would make. You must have the combined IQ of a small planet.” The tension in my shoulders releases. “A medium-size planet, surely.”
― Emily Suvada, This Mortal Coil

“But when you love someone for their mind, you can’t expect that their heart will belong to you too.”
― Emily Suvada, This Mortal Coil

“This outbreak has broken us. I don’t know if people will ever get past it if we keep living with the pain of the last two years.”
― Emily Suvada, This Vicious Cure

“Maybe it's what we've been through, or maybe we really are broken in the same way, our jagged edges aligning perfectly.”
― Emily Suvada, This Mortal Coil

“You want me to justify my own abuse?”
― Emily Suvada, This Mortal Coil

“Give me a five-second warn—” Leoben pulls the trigger.”
― Emily Suvada, This Cruel Design