Christine Manzari > Quotes

“SQUATS, Clementine! And don't stop until class is over. You legs look like they'd snap under the weight of a sack of flour. How do you walk around on those things?"
"I don't know, Professor. One foot in front of the other, I guess.”
― Christine Manzari, Deviation

“Well don't get your hopes up," I warned. "I'm a lot more trouble than i'm worth."
"I don't doubt that," he said, indicating my box of junk.
"What did you do to get sent here?"
"I can't tell you."
"Because then you'd have to kill me.”
― Christine Manzari, Deviation

“The girl may have been tiny, but everything about her said, I'm not scared of you, so piss off.”
― Christine Manzari, Deviation

“It was never about the treasure. We wanted to see where the rainbow began. We always figured the beginning was the best part because that’s where the rain turned into beauty.”
― Christine Manzari, The Color of Us

“True worth isn’t measured in dollar signs and shiny things,” Mom said. She lifted her eyes and stared out into the darkness. “It’s measured by the strength of your heart.”
― Christine Manzari, The Color of Us

“Huck looked completely out of place in my colorfully offbeat room, but it felt like the spot he had found not only in my bed, but in my life, had been carved out specifically for him.”
― Christine Manzari, Hooked

“Nice Lincoln legs."
"I bet you say that to all the girls." Sterling was kind of growing on me. I liked his sense of humor.
"Actually, I do," he admitted. "Can't help it. All i can say is that someone needs to assassinate those socks. They do all sorts of horrible things to the female figure which, come to think of it, i might be the purpose of them all."
"How so?"
"Isn't it obvious? It's hard for me to find any female attractive when there are two miniature dead presidents peeking out from under her skirt at me.”
― Christine Manzari, Deviation

“We run for an hour and a half?"
"Five miles."
"Every morning?"
"Every morning."
"Even Saturdays and Sunday."
"Yes, but you don't have to do the obstacle course on the weekend."
Obstacle course? Sterling didn't say anything about an obstacle course did he? I'd never run five miles in my entire life and now i was going to have to do it every day? And with obstacles on most of those days? I am going to die, I thought, I am literally going to have a heart attack and die the very first day.
Well, that's one way to get out of being a mandate."”
― Christine Manzari, Deviation

“— and I realized I don’t want you to live the rest of your life hating that I died. I want you to spend it loving that I lived.”
― Christine Manzari, The Color of Us

“Love is a funny thing. Once you decide someone is worthy of it, you have to trust that person not to break you.”
― Christine Manzari, Hooked

“Class?" I asked in surprise. "Today?"
"This isn't a spa vacation, Tiger Lily. Just be glad it's History of Wormwood and not conditioning."
"Conditioning?"
"Hope you've got a bottle of Icy Hot in there.”
― Christine Manzari, Deviation

“I couldn't even think about the fact that I'd just met him last night. All that mattered in that moment was that our bodies were drawn to one another with the gravity of souls that had known each other for years.”
― Christine Manzari, Hooked