Erica O'Rourke > Quotes

“People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Torn

“Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Torn

“In the end, though, it doesn't really matter. I think the key is to accept who you are, however you got that way. To embrace it, without reservations or hesitations. Because once you own who you are, it's not a limitation anymore. It's a source of strenght."
- Mo”
― Erica O'Rourke, Torn

“There's a danger in being drawn to something that's not real, in giving yourself to something you can never be a part of, instead of making your life where you are. But those infinite worlds, with their infinite potential, beckoned irresistibly.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Dissonance

“No! See, that's the thing-you were the one I would have chosen, even if there were no fate."
...
"I wanted you, even when I wasn't supposed to be with you.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Torn

“How's Cujo?"
"He's good. Thank you for saving him." ...
"You asked," he said with a shrug.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Torn

“The guy from the bar appeared silently at Uncle Billy's side, his expression cool and steady. He nodded at me once, and turned to my uncle. Seeing him face-to-face,I knew, absolutely, he wasn't just a regular customer. He was a complicationa. A big one. "Mo, meet Colin Donnelly. Your bodyguard.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Torn

“People fail each other all the time, Mo, and they forgive each other, and start again. It's a question of knowing the other person's limitations. Knowing what's fair to expect of them. Knowing what's fair for them to expect of you.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Bound

“your swoonin' needs work." his accent was back. "so does your alias," I snapped. "Dr.Smith? Seriously? Why not John Doe? And how is it that everybody around here seems to buy you're a doctor? you don't look enough to drink, let alone practice medicine”
― Erica O'Rourke, Torn

“I met his eyes. Unlike Callie, he wouldn't be fooled with a smile. Once you've glimpsed something's true nature, it's hard to see the veneer as anything but false, no matter how bright the shine.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Resonance

“We don't need an alarm system. We barely have anythings worth stealing."

"Do you want me moving in?"

"NO!"

"then you're getting an alarm.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Torn

“It's not only the demons who have the power to break you. It's the small, unexpected kindness, the flame that throws the darkness into relief.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Resonance

“Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Dissonance

“You're jealous," I said. His face went cold and remote, and I knew I should shut up, but my humiliation had been festering since the game, turning to anger, thick and oily in my veins. I couldn't stop myself. it was leaking out, contaminating everything, poisoning the one good thing I had left. "You're jealous because I actually go after what I want, and I get it.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Dissonance

“Every person is the result of an entire universe’s worth of choices—moments”
― Erica O'Rourke, Resonance

“Breaking news gently is a misnomer. News doesn't break, people do, no matter how you try to cushion the blow.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Dissonance

“Every time someone makes a choice, a new, parallel world branches off from the existing one. Eating breakfast or skipping it, turning left instead of right, sneaking out instead of staying in bed ~ all of these choices create an alternate universe in which an echo self takes the road not travelled and makes the opposite decision”
― Erica O'Rourke

“A loosening in my chest, the faintest stirrings of hope. But hope was a dangerous, fragile thing, easily shattered. I couldn't afford it.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Dissonance