B.B. Alston > Quotes

“You’re not going to change the world unless you hang with people who want to change the world too.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“People tend to fear what they don’t understand. And fear can far too easily become hatred.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“In the end, we are all bound by our choices.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“Being good is a choice, Amari. And it’s one you have to keep making, again and again. No matter how hard it gets. However tempting it is to let the darkness win.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Great Game

“Courage,” says Agent Fiona. “And that’s what separates the wannabes from the agents in the end. Quinton didn’t nominate ye ’cause he needed a rescuer, he nominated ye because he believed ye can thrive here. Only you’ve gotta believe it before anybody else will.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“Fair magicians seek to use magic to benefit the world around us. Foul magicians use it for their own gain, at the expense of others.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Great Game

“Don't be angry, child. Be better.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“People assume stuff about you based on things you can't change about yourself. So I just do my best to prove them wrong, to be the person they're not expecting.”
― B. B. Alston

“Levante a cabeça, Amari Peters. Você não está sozinha.”
― B. B. Alston, Amari e os Irmãos da Noite (Investigações Sobrenaturais Livro 1)

“People are going to form opinions and say nasty things about you based on nothing more than what you are. You sure you’re prepared for that?”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“Sasquatch, not me!” Agent Fiona shakes her red tangles.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“It’s so easy for some people to dismiss others’ experiences because they don’t have the same problems.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Great Game

“Boogeyperson,” says the shadow-lady. “It’s the twenty-first century, for heaven’s sake.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“As long as you bet in yourself and believe you can do anything, you can.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“Director Van Helsing’s face goes quickly from shock to disgust. He lifts his chin. “A magician is no daughter of mine.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Great Game

“baddies”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Great Game

“All I can do is keep showing them who I am, and if they’d rather believe something different, then that’s on them.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Great Game

“choosing to be good is the hardest decision you can possibly make—especially when you possess magic as great as your own.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Great Game

“First and foremost,” says Harlowe. “In regard to the burning of the Vanderbilt Hotel, I want to make it clear how disgusted I am by the state of the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs. This once-proud institution has become target practice for magicians two summers in a row. I blame this on a failure of leadership, and so I am relieving Chief Director Elizabeth Crowe of her duties, effective immediately. I will be stepping in to fill that position as well—” I’m just about to turn to Elsie to say how horrible this news is when the screen fades to black and Dylan Van Helsing’s face emerges, his bright red pupils piercing. My breath catches in my throat. “Dylan Van Helsing here to interrupt your regularly scheduled drivel. Ignore the silly faun—she can’t protect you any more than the last Prime Minister. Allow me to show you what real power looks like.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Despicable Wonders

“The hotel’s a bit froufrou for my tastes, but they have a killer cigar selection.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“They say things like Speak Up/Speak Out and Everyone Belongs.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Great Game

“breakthrough.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Despicable Wonders

“He made me believe I could actually do anything I set my mind to. He made me believe in me.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“summer –’ ‘I want that girl’s scholarship revoked!’ Mrs”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“Why am I apologizing?”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Great Game

“The first lesson in the training of an illusionist is this: Never trust.
Take absolutely nothing at face value. In viewing anything, assume
its appearance is false until proven otherwise. To this end, the very
first spell the novice illusionist must learn is the extremely simple
spell that casts aside illusions set forth by others.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“This is all so unfair. People like Emily and Mrs Grant will never understand what’s it’s like to not have money. They can do whatever they want with no consequences while the rest of us have to watch our every step.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“magick,”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“You are a magician”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

“Quinton”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers