Marissa McCrary > Marissa's Quotes

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong."

He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin.

"My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.

His dark eyes lifting to mine, he adds, "But I resist it."

"Why..." I swallow hard. "Why is that your first instinct?"

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just want to see it again. Want to see you awake.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Some walks you have to take alone.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.”
― Carrie Fisher

“You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Best Awful

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

“He really did posses the ability to be extremely annoying when he set his mind to it.”
― Jen Turano, A Talent for Trouble

“It was fortunate she loved him because he really was an idiot.”
― Jen Turano, Gentleman of Her Dreams

“I've always been of the belief that gentlemen need to earn respect.”
― Jen Turano, After a Fashion

“Honestly, he could be adorable, and at the moment she had the feeling he wasn't even trying.”
― Jen Turano, A Most Peculiar Circumstance

“If you want to protect me, prayer is just as powerful a weapon as that gun you carry.”
― Karen Witemeyer, Short-Straw Bride

“. . . if you can't see the good man he is, you need to unscrew them eyeballs of yours and try on a different pair.”
― Karen Witemeyer, To Win Her Heart

“Loving this woman was either going to kill him or make his life richer than he’d ever imagined.”
― Karen Witemeyer, To Win Her Heart

“...it would be unfair to measure him against a fictional standard that he could never possibly achieve.”
― Karen Witemeyer, Head in the Clouds

“I conquered a kingdom and found a treasure." His voice turns gravelly, low. "I won't let you go. Not now. Not ever.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“People talk about fight or flight? That's nonsense. It's fight and flight.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“I dread this power he has over me. It makes me want to tell him all my secrets and see if he still wants me.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“The ice inside me melts. Suddenly, I'm burning up and terrified, scared I'll be too weak to resist.

Scratch that - I'm petrified I've already given in.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen