Jacques Antoine > Quotes

“The angel of death can hardly have friends. And the prom, what about Danny? He can hardly have a Valkyrie for his date.”
― Jacques Antoine

“It’s who I am. I can’t just pretend to be some normal kid. That won’t work either. They’ll never leave me alone. But here’s what I know: a block is a strike, and the more an adversary thinks he has succeeded, the more devastating the strike will be.”
― Jacques Antoine

“She looked into the eyes of many of them as they passed away, like some sort of angel of death. Some were frightened, some relieved, most just confused. She served as the arbiter of their passage, an earthly Charon. Or perhaps a Valkyrie, carrying fallen heroes to Valhalla. But she’d seen no heroes, no one worthy of Valhalla.”
― Jacques Antoine

“I’m sorry about this,' she said to the dead woman, 'but I’m gonna need your clothes.”
― Jacques Antoine

“Hatred could not be the basis of her resolution to fight. It provided no access to her own qi, her vital spirit. That was the deepest truth she knew about fighting. It’s what she learned from her father and Sensei: fight from the peaceful place inside, from her father’s place.”
― Jacques Antoine

“They want rational reasons and are unwilling to cross into the territory of insanity, which is where all the real answers lie.”
― Jacques Antoine, End of the Road

“right of the gate, where the hedge was thinner, with no trunks, just”
― Jacques Antoine, Girl Fights Back

“first. Soon these gave way to smaller walking”
― Jacques Antoine, Girl Fights Back

“meant she was entering as a Kane and”
― Jacques Antoine, Girl Fights Back

“She sat alone at a table in the corner and looked down at her tray, sampling the rice and beans, and poking idly at the enchilada with her fork. Danny came and sat at her table a moment later. He’d begun to sit with her at lunch these last few weeks, though he hadn’t quite figured out how to speak to her with any degree of comfort since the concert. No one else even had the temerity to approach her on most days. If it was raining and the patio was unusable, it would be more crowded inside, and other kids would have to squeeze in at her table. But today, for some reason, Billy Codrow plumped down across from her, and Wayne Turley came in right behind him. She knew them all from the dojo, but Billy and Wayne had never sat with her before.”
― Jacques Antoine, Girl Fights Back

“Emily retraced her steps to Mill Creek, and found the spot where they hid the dirt bike. She meant to return to the estate, and there was no way to approach it in a car without drawing attention to herself, given all the cameras. But first, she needed to gather the most important things from the various bags in the car and fit them into her pack, which she then strapped to the back of the bike. It was too dark to ride through the forest, so she slept on the ground near the car. The next morning, she rose early, changed clothes, ate the last of the bento and rice balls,”
― Jacques Antoine, Girl Fights Back

“types, and get”
― Jacques Antoine, Girl Fights Back

“oaks and mountain mahogany as she climbed until”
― Jacques Antoine, Girl Fights Back

“still had enough foliage to conceal her without the need for a lean-to or any other sort”
― Jacques Antoine, Girl Fights Back