Emily McKay > Quotes

“You just told me you didn't intend to love me. You didn't want to love me. You got yourself arrested to keep yourself away from me. That's not love. That's a compulsion. And, by the way, kudos on coming up with the worst pickup line of all time.”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“What can I say to convince you that I'm on the up-and-up?"
"Why don't you just start at the beginning and I'll stop you when you've won me over.”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“I worry about Lily, sluggish as she is. Will she see Carter's truths? Will he tell her? God knows she won't hear them. She's moving too fast to hear anyone's music but her own. She's so set, but I know he could make her settled. I tried to sync their noise into music, but they both pushed back. Too obdurate to be oblong.
Silly Lily. How can she resist someone who brings gum and sounds like math?”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“Carter may have just beaten the crap out of me, he may have shot me in the back, but he'd bought me Dr. Pepper. I know it was effed up, but somehow, it balanced out.”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“His presence makes me feel thin. Not model slender. But worn, like an old cotton housedress. Thin like a specimen pressed between two plates of glass. Like a bug squashed beneath the marching boot of a soldier.

Thin and worn and silence like I've never known.

This is how I know he is not a Tick.

They are as pitiable as they are inhuman. They are fear personified. Their emotions and minds given over to rage and hunger. They are all noise. He is none.

If he is not a Tick, does that make him a Tock?”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“That's how you know you're doing the right thing - it's so hard you want to give up.”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“The Vampires have a plan to take over the world?" I asked. I felt a bit dumb, gasping in surprise at every twist to the story and incredulously repeating all the important of bits. But somehow Carter's version of things made sense. I felt like Dorothy at the end of The Wizard of Oz when the green curtain is pulled back to reveal the truth.”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“Most days Lily is the steady drumbeat. The rhythm of my heart. The repeating melody of the music in my head. But not today.”
― Emily McKay

“When you're lucky enough to catch lightning in a bottle, you put the lid on as fast as you can.”
― Emily McKay, How Willa Got Her Groove Back

“The Dean liked to remind us that those fences were there to keep the Ticks out as much as to keep us in.”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“Time crawls in the silence. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tock. Tock. Tock.”
― Emily McKay

“Çünkü ben müziği dinlemeyi yeğliyorum, üzerine konuşup durmayı değil.”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“He stepped closer to her, not stopping until she had to tilt her head to look up at him. “If I didn’t know better, I’d say you were nervous about being alone with me.”

The teasing seemed to ease her nerves. She quirked an eyebrow. “Thank God you know better.”
― Emily McKay, Tempted Into The Tycoon's Trap

“If he is not a Tick, does that make him a Tock?”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“The Godfather II —"

“Nope, not even close. This has the great cliffhanger ending, plus the yummy romance between Princess Leia and Han Solo.”

He looked at her, surprised. “Really? I would have pegged you for a When Harry Met Sally fan.”

“Nah.” She waved a hand. “Give me sarcastic Han Solo over sentimental Harry any day.”
― Emily McKay, Tempted Into The Tycoon's Trap

“Well, well, well. If it isn’t Jack Hudson. The villain of my life’s story.” It should be illegal for former lovers to show up unannounced on your doorstep. At the very least they deserved foreboding theme music, like the shark from Jaws.”
― Emily McKay

“...Ayrıca, Amerika da dünyanın geri kalanının çok sevdiği bir ülke değildi.”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“If you had been me, why would you be afraid to fall in love? Just remember, there are a hundred—a thousand—reasons not to let yourself fall in love. And only one reason to let yourself love.”

“And what’s that?”

“Because without the other person, you’ll never be whole.”
― Emily McKay, Tempted Into The Tycoon's Trap

“Eğer kulak verirsen, her şeyin kendine göre bir ses perdesi vardır. Ama insanların çoğu dinlemez.”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“İşte tüm bu eşyalar çok fazla ses çıkarıyor. Müziği duyamıyorum. Eğer duysaydım neyin eksik olduğunu anlayacaktım.”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“Ortalıkta gezen ergen kitaplarının sizi inandırdığı şeylere rağmen, dokuzuncu sınıf biyoloji dersinde yakışıklı bir çocuğun yanında oturuyor olmak, bir ilişki başlangıcı olmak zorunda değildir.”
― Emily McKay, The Farm

“I did it to protect you.”

“From what?”

“I’m not good husband material. Hell, I’m not even good boyfriend material.”

“Yeah, I know.” She jerked her arm from his grasp. “And some men just make excuses because it’s easier than sticking around long enough to see what they’re made of.”
― Emily McKay, Tempted Into The Tycoon's Trap