A.J. Betts > Quotes

“Google tells me everything I need to know about death except what comes after.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia

“Courage is standing still even though you want to run. Courage is planting yourself and turning towards the thing that scares you, whether it's your leg or your friends or the guy who could break your heart again. It's opening your eyes and staring that fear down.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia

“Perhaps courage is simply this spur-of-the-moment acts when your head screams don't, but your body does it anyway.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia

“I don’t know how he does it—how he makes me forget the clock and the pain. Sometimes, even if it’s just for a few seconds, I can forget how crap my life is.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia: A Tough and Tender YA Novel About Cancer, Mysterious Connection, and Hope

“I want to forget myself. I want to be in someone’s arms, safe from nightmares: not dreaming, sleeping. I want to be more than a fraction. In the darkness, our arms and legs coil to make a whole.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia: A Tough and Tender YA Novel About Cancer, Mysterious Connection, and Hope

“We humans screw up everything in the short time we've got”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia

“three is the worst hour. it's too dark, too bright, too late, too early. It's when the questions come, droning like flies, nudging me one by one until my mind's full of them”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia

“Düşünüyorum da bir otobüse binersem ve yeterince uzağa gidersem, en sonunda dünyanın kenarından düşerim.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia

“If only I could fall asleep while someone took apart my world, cleaned it up and put it back together in a neater version than before.”
― A.J. Betts, Hive

“There are some things you can't change ... And there are some things you can”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia

“Mia: Where do their other things go? Like mobile phones and all the music on ipods? I imagine mountains of phones. Songs forgotten in clouds.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia: A Tough and Tender YA Novel About Cancer, Mysterious Connection, and Hope

“Isn't that normal? To want to be alone sometimes?”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia

“Perhaps time eats away all relationships”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia

“There was nothing beautiful to go to after life. There was nothing.”
― A.J. Betts, Hive

“There's nothing mysterious about death or what comes after. There's just nothing.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia

“I wonder what he sees.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia: A Tough and Tender YA Novel About Cancer, Mysterious Connection, and Hope

“I tend the night. I fix the dangers, because nothing good comes from fear.”
― A.J. Betts, Hive

“Nothing I do could ever make her better.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia: A Tough and Tender YA Novel About Cancer, Mysterious Connection, and Hope

“De golpe siento lo que es coraje. El coraje es permanecer quieto, aunque desees salir corriendo. El coraje es plantarte y darte la vuelta para encarar aquello que temes [...] Es abrir bien los ojos y aguantarle la mirada a ese miedo.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia

“I'd lost myself in that haze, too, now that I think about it. I'd forgotten all else, when we jammed. It was sublime in there. I felt timeless. Thoughtless. Borderless. Made of nothing but air and music.”
― A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World

“Within me, the truth unfurled, opening as a flower. I breathed as if for the first time.”
― A.J. Betts, Hive

“I fool myself into thinking killers have a conscience. Some might. But not all.”
― A J Betts, Zac and Mia

“No one dismantles this band but me.”
― A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World

“I want to please her, but not like this.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia: A Tough and Tender YA Novel About Cancer, Mysterious Connection, and Hope

“There was only one distant light now, and it came from my left, out above the ocean. Impossibly, it was the colour of fire, contained as a ball. It rose up along a wall that didn’t burn but changed its colours, not one at a time but altogether, fusing golds, reds, pinks, yellows and blues that shifted together and spread. I sat mutely while ‘sun’ and ‘sky’ worked their bewildering magic.”
― A.J. Betts, Rogue

“Yeah, there’s that, too, those razor-edged comments that come from nowhere like nunchuks.”
― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia: A Tough and Tender YA Novel About Cancer, Mysterious Connection, and Hope

“Because I've been writing this song my whole life. It's the soundtrack of me.”
― A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World