Emily Antoney > Emily's Quotes

“The closer you look, the more you see.”
― Aaron Hartzler, What We Saw

“Loving someone wasn’t enough if I didn’t show it. Appreciating them wasn’t enough if I didn’t express it.”
― Ana Huang, King of Greed

“Given enough time, everything changes. Maybe this sense of how fragile our connections are is what makes us obsessed with saving them—writing them down, taking pictures, recording them in tweets, documenting them with status updates and videos. It is clear to me now that when the earth does move beneath our feet—when our hearts slam and scrape and break apart—when we barely survive the flood, we take precautions. We”
― Aaron Hartzler, What We Saw

“Nobody that beautiful can be good, it’s impossible. Power corrupts and beauty warps the mind.”
― Sophie Lark, There Are No Saints

“will be boys’ is what people say to excuse guys when they do something awful.”
― Aaron Hartzler, What We Saw

“Letting go isn’t about forgetting. It’s balancing moving forward with life, and looking back from time to time, remembering the people in it.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“The world keeps moving, no matter what happens to you.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“Life will pass right by you,” she says, her eyes focused on the road. “And you end up missing the little things, the moments you don’t think matter—but they do. Moments that make you forget about everything else. Just like with your writing,” she adds out of nowhere. “You don’t write to get to the end. You write because you enjoy doing it. You write and don’t want it to end. Does that make some sense?”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“I want you to know … if I could do it all over again, I would. Every second of it.” If the ending is this painful, I don’t know if this was worth it all.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“She said that, sometimes, dreams are the opposite of what they show us. That we shouldn't understand them exactly as they are. It can mean something in our life is out of balance. Or maybe we're holding in to much. Especially when we lose someone, dreams show us the opposite of what it is we need to find balance again.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“You think these recent events are everything. You think Aaron fell in love with your friend of several months, a rebel girl named Juliette. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know that Aaron has been in love with Ella for the better part of his entire life. They've known each other since childhood...…..The reason he had to keep wiping their memories was because it didn't matter how many times he reset the story or remade the introductions - Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.


- Delalieu”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I love you, Ella. I will love you for the rest of my life. My heart is yours. Please don't ever give it back to me.

- Warner”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“The reason he had to keep wiping their memories was because it didn’t matter how many times he reset the story or remade the introductions— Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“Happiness does not happen. Happiness must be uncovered, separated from the skin of pain. It must be claimed. Kept close. Protected.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“It's not insane to imagine that sometimes even horrible people are searching for a way out of their own darkness.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I want to remember to celebrate more. I want to remember to experience more joy. I want to allow myself to be happy more frequently. I want to remember, forever, this look on Aaron's face, as he's bullied into blowing out his birthday candles for the very first time.
This is, after all, what we're fighting for, isn't it?
A second chance at joy.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“Loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion. Sometimes it just won't let go”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“Here in the dark, dusty corners of my mind I feel a strange relief. I am always welcome here in my loneliness, in my sadness in this abyss, there is a rhythm I remember. The steady drop of tears, the temptation to retreat, the shadow of my past the life I choose to forget has not
will never
ever
forget me”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“To the world, she is formidable. To me? She is the world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“Imagine me
master of my own universe
I am everything I ever dreamed of”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“Hell, he says, "I've finally found hell.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“What reason would you have to be afraid of Warner? He’s such a nice guy. Loves children. Big talker. Oh, and bonus: He no longer murders people professionally. No, now
murdering people is just a fulfilling hobby.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society. And I know it, of course I know it. I know what I've done. I'm not asking for sympathy.
But sometimes I think - somtimes I wonder - if I were a monster - surely, I would feel it by now?”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“Just remember that whenever things feel bleak, all situations are temporary. It’s not your circumstance that determines your worth, it’s how you rise from the ashes after everything burns.”
― Emily McIntire, Hooked

“Maybe people never change and it’s only our perceptions that alter the view.”
― Emily McIntire, Hooked

“Give it to me," she whispers.

I shake my head, my body trembling. "I don't have anything to give."

Her mouth grazes along my jaw, pressing soft kisses to my skin. "So give me all your nothing," she replies.”
― Emily McIntire, Hooked

“People aren't static. Our morals aren't constant. They're variables, ever changing and molding into different versions of themselves; energy that can be re-shifted and realigned.”
― Emily McIntire, Hooked

“But we’re all a little twisted, and there’s no such thing as good and evil. There are only perspectives, and perceptions change depending on the angle.”
― Emily McIntire, Hooked

“If something happens, know that I will find you in every lifetime, Sara Beatreaux. You are mine, and not even death can keep you from me.”
― Emily McIntire, Scarred

“The truth is, I am yours. Wholly. Inexplicably. Painfully. Unconditionally.” He moves my hand until the dagger presses against his throat. “And if you need to sacrifice my soul so you’re able to live with yours, then do it.”
― Emily McIntire, Scarred