Burn After Reading > Burn After Reading 's Quotes

“I told him that when we first met... I felt like a butterfly trapped in a net. But... I told him that the more time I spent with him, the more I began to realize how much he means to me I told him that since it seems to be my destiny to dodge raindrops... I was grateful to be dodging them with him. So, I promised him that it would always be his name on my mind when I start my rotation... and when I go to bed each evening... and every quiet moment in between. It will be his name... savored on my lips... stretched across my heart... worshipped by my body... and branded in my mind... until death do us part... and forever after that.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars

“She's in your head, Trey."
"My head, my heart, my blood," Trey responds immediately.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars

“Ye're na meant for a tepid existence, so maybe 'tis time ta leave da sandbox.
Brennus”
― Amy A. Bartol, Incendiary

“To ache from the knowledge that I may never hold you again - to count the moments, like grains of sand, while we were parted only to escape the sky and find that you still only know me as a boy from school...”
― Amy A. Bartol, Incendiary

“Is that what you are calling it? A message? It felt more like emotional terrorism to me.-Zephyr”
― Amy Bartol

“Well, that feels a little bit like stealin’ yer parent’s car keys for a joy ride and ending up crashin’ it, huh?”

“We kind of hijacked the sun, Russell.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Indebted

“I think I’m the most hurt by the fact that I’m not like him. I would’ve chosen him over everything else. The whole world could’ve burned down and I would’ve pulled him from the wreckage of it.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Darken the Stars

“Sometimes we don't know that it's best to run. Hanging on in desperation seems to be our way.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Indebted

“If you don't want to know, don't ask.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Indebted

“I’m just saying that when there is little left to lose, the consequences of one’s actions don’t carry the same weight…painful or otherwise.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars

“I want those thousand years with you, Evie, you have no idea how much I want them. I want a thousand years, and then I want a hundred thousand more.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Inescapable

“She’s in my blood. I will never stop fighting for her,”
― Amy A. Bartol, Indebted

“I’m not forgiveness and redemption. I’m violent retaliation and vengeance.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Incendiary

“Instead of asking yourself how you can change that aspect of you, maybe you should be asking yourself why you were created that way. For what purpose do you exist the way that you are?”
― Amy A Bartol

“You are the only thing I have ever needed and I won’t give you up. The only being who will keep me from you is you,” he says with conviction. “You are where I draw the line. They can have anything else that they want, but they cannot have you—not when I have breath in my body to prevent it.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Intuition

“We have to make the stars align for us now-- find a way for us now to get burned for being together." - Trey to Kricket”
― Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars

“First love is like dat," Brennus says tiredly. "But, den ye mature and find a deeper love, one dat was created jus for ye.”
― Amy Bartol Indebted

“Oh, I’m so going to put a knife in the other side of your chest, I think, feeling stabby.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Sea of Stars

“I can't figure out what's wrong with her feet! -Nothing's wrong with my feet! -They are an alluring shade of pink. -Jax, that's nail polish!”
― Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars

“I have never had to fight so hard to take a breath.”
― Amy Bartol

“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
― Stendhal

“A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.
It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.”
― William Wordsworth

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Bye, Felicia.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Manage your temper" he reminds me, his small voice darkening. "Manners, manners, then burn their bloodydamn house to the ground.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising