Ella E. > Ella's Quotes

“Me?” Dean couldn’t have sounded more incredulous if he’d tried. “What else is there to say?”

What was there to say?

“I don’t care.” My breath was still ragged from running. I was saying this wrong. “Your father—it doesn’t change who you are.”

“What I am,” he corrected. “And yes, it does. Why don’t you go ask Sloane what the statistics say about psychopathy and heredity? And then why don’t you ask her what they say about growing up in an environment where it’s the only thing you know.”

“I don’t care about the statistics,” I said. “We’re partners. We work together. You knew I was going to find out. You could have told me.”

“We’re not partners.”

The words hurt me—and he meant for them to.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Most people built walls to protect themselves. Dean did it to protect everyone else.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“When the odds are bad, you change the rules.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“None of us had normal childhoods," Sloane said quietly. "If we had, we wouldn't be Naturals.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“I am so happy. I am so scared.
The two, it turns out, can walk together, hand in hand.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“She has declared it a reading day, she says. Nothing else to do when the weather turns.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Perhaps you are haunting me.
What a comforting thought.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Is it smash the patriarchy? I hope it’s smash the patriarchy.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Grayson was Not Pleased - and no one did Not Pleased like Grayson Hawthorne.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Day didn’t fail his Trial. Not even close. In fact, he got the same score I did: 1500 / 1500. I am no longer the Republic’s only prodigy with a perfect score.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“The boy who walks in the light. The girl who shatters the shining glass.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“I think we all get to decide what good and bad and right and wrong mean to us, not what we’re told to accept.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Time is in charge here, not me, and that's terrifying”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“...it’s hard to climb back out of the hole once you’ve dug in your heels.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“A forget-me-not, since you always seem to be forgetting who I am.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Perhaps you may not need powers to be powerful.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“This is not a goodbye, just a good way to say bye until I see you next”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“You know it’s not the words that bother me, it’s—” “It’s the meaning behind them,”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“She’s a flame, and I’m going to get burned. An ocean and I’m going to drown.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“If you die, I’m going to kill you.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Hey Sarge, remember me?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead