Lissa Price > Quotes

“Did Cinderella ever consider fessing up to the prince, that night she was enjoying herself in the fancy ball gown? Did she even think of telling him, oh, by the way, Prince, the coach isn’t mine, I’m really a filthy little barefoot servant on borrowed time? No. She took her moment. And then went quietly away after midnight.”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“No one ever complained about a fat brain. No one ever accused their brain of being too short or too tall, too wide or too narrow. Or ugly. It either worked or it didn't, and mine worked just fine.”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“When hawks cry, time to fly.”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“Probably my favorite body part. No one ever complained about a fat brain. No one ever accused their brain of being too short or too tall, too wide or too narrow. Or ugly. It either worked or it didn't, and mine worked just fine.”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“I need you to go talk to a girl who may have some information about Emma."
"Where is she?"
"Someplace you're not going to want to go."
(...)
"I give up. Where?"
"Institution 37."
I felt a hitch in my breathing. I leaned back against the wall.
"Could I pick hell instead?”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“Beauty isn’t about meeting some holo-star standard, it’s about being you. Because looks come and go. But nobody else can be you.”
― Lissa Price, Enders

“eventually we’ll be old and wrinkled. Like everybody. But we’ll look a lot better if we’re happy inside. If we used our brains and our talents instead of stressing over what someone else defines as ‘pretty.’ ”
― Lissa Price, Enders

“What defines me? Skin? I hope I'm more than that. Than this. That I am what I think, what I believe. What I feel.”
― Lissa Price, Enders

“Falling apart wasn't an option.”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“It's just the beginning”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“It's like you are a car, a nice car that hadn't been washed for a year.
And then you got a wash and wax and all the trimmings.
You're sparkling, but you're still the same great car.”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“I wanted to say something, at least wave goodbye. Blake couldn't see me through the dark-tinted windows. All I could to was watch him stare at the windows, searching, finding nothing. Deep disappointment fell across his face as our car pulled away.
It wasn't until we had a little distance that I noticed he was holding something in his hand.
My shoe.”
― Lissa Price

“He had the face of a floating astronaut who had lost his tether and had only one chance to grab a lifeline or forever drift away into endless black. I knew that feeling, the sense of panic that stretched time, turning seconds into years, and the deep pain that came from being hurt by not one person but many, a gang of bullies that expanded into a neighborhood and then into a community, until you questioned the whole world.”
― Lissa Price

“We had no choice. We ran into darkness of the early morning leaving everything behind.”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“I knew that feeling, the sense of panic that stretched time, turning seconds into years, and the deep pain that came from being hurt by not one person but many, a gang of bullies that expanded into a neighborhood and then into a community, until you questioned the whole world. And your last thought, as you stretch your arm until your fingers are inches from that lifeline, is how if you survive, you'll find a way to help fix what was broken, so you can say that yes, you want to be part of the world again.”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“You wouldn't want to be me, Callie. Can you imagine hating your own body? I'm a prisoner inside it.”
― Lissa Price, Enders

“Take your pick. Be Somebody ... else.”
― Lissa Price, Portrait of a Marshal: The 2nd Unhidden Story

“Everybody wants to be someone else," he says "Do you blame them?" he asks.”
― Lissa Price, Portrait of a Marshal: The 2nd Unhidden Story

“I don't know you, but I'm sorry for having to use you in this way. And I'm sorry for the world we've left you”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“Cosa mi definisce? La mia pelle? Tu sai che si può cambiare con una passata di laser. I muscoli? Si possono costruire
con l’esercizio o con la stimolazione
elettrica. Il grasso? Può scomparire
con i trattamenti criogenici. Io spero
di essere più di tutto questo. Spero di
essere quello che penso,quello che
credo. Quello che provo.”
― Lissa Price, Enders

“But I've got a gun," she said, twirling it on two fingers.
"A gun with bullets is worse than no gun at all.”
― Lissa Price, Portrait of a Marshal: The 2nd Unhidden Story

“looks come and go. But nobody else can be you.”
― Lissa Price, Enders

“It’s encrypted,” Hyden said. “I’m not surprised. Your father wasn’t stupid.” “So can’t you uncrypt it?” Michael asked. “Decrypt. It’s not a coffin,” Hyden said as he plucked at the screen.”
― Lissa Price, Enders

“That close, his eyes made the world disappear. He smelled clean. Like summers before the war. Like sanctuary.”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“Mexico, can you believe they built that wall so Americans couldn’t cross over?”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“Would you like to be young again? Play any kind of sport you used to? All day long, with no soreness the next day?"

"Who Wouldn't?”
― Lissa Price, Portrait of a Marshal: The 2nd Unhidden Story

“This is so ..." I can't find the word.
"Wonderful? Amazing?" the Ender nurse offers.
"Bizarre," I say as I watch the lips of the Starter move in the mirror.”
― Lissa Price, Portrait of a Marshal: The 2nd Unhidden Story

“Si ultimul tau gand, cand intinzi disperat bratul si ajungi cu varfurile degetelor la numai cativa centimetri de cordonul de siguranta, este ca, daca vei supravietui vei gasi o cale prin care sa repari ce s-a stricat, pentru a putea spune "da, vreau sa fac parte din nou din lume".”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“Probably my favorite body part. No one ever complained about a fat brain.”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“You know, Metal. One of those body bank people. You’ve got that chip in your head.”
― Lissa Price, Enders