A.J. Rivers > Quotes

“Better to have your good memories than someone around who doesn't want to make any more of them.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl in Cabin 13

“Snake pushes me out of the way, using me like a weapon to knock Gage and Tank off balance. He runs for the door and bursts out before we get a chance to get back to our feet. The men try to keep me in the house, but I don’t listen to them. Chasing after Snake, I reach under my shirt and wrap my hand around the handle of my gun. He doesn’t have a car, but that’s not going to stop the slimy piece of shit from trying to get away from me. After jangling a few handles, he finds an unlocked door and dives behind the wheel. My shot obliterates the back window, but it doesn’t stop him from cranking the engine”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl in Cabin 13

“There is no need to kill to live. There is only the thrill.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl That Vanished

“Life can put you through the grinder sometimes," I answer. "Sometimes it can seem like there isn't any point in trying to keep going because it's only going to get worse. Killing yourself doesn't feel like violence or an act of cruelty. It's mercy. Instead of trudging along through the rest of life with the days shackled to your neck, dragging along behind you, you cut the chains. You're relieved of the burden. Depression and hopelessness can be a bitch.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl in the Manor

“These are strangers coming here because they grieve for people they don't even know. They feel the tear in humanity, the open wound every one of us shares when someone is ripped unfairly from life. We feel that because there is more to life than survival.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Hunt

“to conclusions or constructing entire narratives that fit in with their view of a situation rather than waiting to find out the actual truth. It gets in the way and creates conflict where there doesn’t need to be any.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Woman in the Woods

“All I am is God coloring outside the lines. Who am I to think I could do any better?”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Black Christmas

“Your surroundings become your identity. They are your reality. You can always hope for something different or dream that you're somewhere else. But you are where you are. There's never a guarantee you'll be anywhere else.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Field of Bones

“My nightmares didn’t follow me, but that might be because my past has its own ghosts here. ”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl That Vanished

“That’s a rabbit hole you don’t want to go down”
― A.J. Rivers, The Invitation

“Sometimes, you have to face what you don’t like and just learn to deal with things that cause you stress.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Art of Murder

“tilt it”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl in Cabin 13

“And sometimes it's not worth the journey. Or it at the very least it, in that moment, it doesn't seem like it's worth it. The challenge is getting past that moment.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl in the Manor

“that being afraid doesn’t mean you aren’t brave, and strength doesn’t mean not feeling like you’re going to break.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Deadly Secrets

“They’ll see the pictures, the clips of video, the dramatized captions, and they’ll think they are seeing fact. We live in a world where the immense freedom of information has given way to very blurred lines between people just saying what they want and actual news. Far too many readers can’t tell the difference between what is being reported because it’s true and what is being distributed because someone wanted to say it, regardless of how rooted it is in fact.”
― A.J. Rivers, Under the Mask

“ended”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Twisted End

“But even then, I didn’t want to kill myself. I knew if I was still here, no matter how much I didn’t want to be, no matter how little explanation I could give for what benefit there was in me still breathing, if I was still here, there was a reason. I still had something to do, and killing myself would be so much of an insult not just to creation itself but to every moment I was still owed and everything I was supposed to accomplish. There were still people I was supposed to meet and things I was supposed to do for them. Even if I couldn’t value my own existence in that moment, I couldn’t make that choice for somebody else. I couldn’t disrespect the life they still had and the role I might play in it.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Convict

“You’ll put the things you want to put behind you behind you, and the rest will stay because you carry it with you. Remember what you told me about energy? Places remember you. You leave a piece of your energy behind when you go to a place, and it is always there. That means that the opposite is true too. The energy of places stays with you, even long after you’ve left. Whatever pieces of that house you want to keep with you, they’ll come. You’ll still have your memories. And you’ll have the chance to make new ones.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Woman in the Attic

“He never has anything with him that is prohibited, and he has no problem with the security, but it’s one of the things he can’t control. He can’t stop the fear that starts to build the moment he sees the airplane symbol on a road sign and continues until he’s sitting in his seat.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl in Her Cabin

“silent boarding on a plane was completely foreign to me before I met Xavier, but now I understand just how valuable accommodations like that are. He’s able to get on the plane early, get used to his place in the plane, get settled into place, and not feel like he’s in anyone’s way or being watched by everyone else.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl in Her Cabin

“A woman who has gone through so many losses and wants so badly to be a mother doesn’t take a surprise miracle pregnancy lightly.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Hidden Trail

“Everybody needs people. We’re not made to be isolated. We feed off of each other, getting validation, energy, love, support. All those things we need to thrive. You get them from a lot of people. You share the crayons you have with the people you meet, and you borrow ones from them to color your world. It’s constant. You know you can always find somebody who has the color you need.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Black Christmas

“What is the right path, Dean? Is it the one that brings you most easily through the maze? The way that is expected of you? Or is it the one you follow because it’s the only one your feet can follow with righteousness?”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Black Christmas

“So, you're telling me you don't ever wonder if your mother is still around?” Eric asks.  That yanks the breath out of me.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Cursed Lake

“Man’s greatest enemy is man, make no mistake. It’s the compulsion to kill without need that makes a human truly terrifying.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl That Vanished

“Because people who feel like they're being controlled or limited in what they are allowed to do are more likely to push back against it," I”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Deadly Express

“And just so you know… I am kind of a bitch. But I earned every bit of my ego.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Deadly Secrets

“movie”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl That Vanished

“when you put that blanket over her, you suffocate the rest of her being. The detail and clarity of every moment of her life are covered by the veil of suffering.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl in Apartment 9

“And I had to move pieces but only if my letters spelled the right word and all the hippos ate their marbles without closing their mouths too soon and bouncing one of them into the mousetrap knocking over the whole block tower without collecting $200.”
― A.J. Rivers, The Girl and the Silent Night