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  • #1
    Jennifer E. Smith
    “I love Graham Larkin,” she said quietly, her voice full of emotion, and there was a flicker of surprise on his face, and then his expression softened. “You’re supposed to shout it,” he said, smiling as she tugged on the brim of the cap, forcing him to lower his face, bringing him closer and closer until their lips met. And even though they were in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the world, lost in a sea of concrete and wood and metal, she could almost swear he tasted like the ocean.”
    Jennifer E. Smith, Happy Again

  • #2
    “Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee.”
    “Who’s Bruce Lee?”
    “Who’s Bruce Lee?” Kenji asks, horrified. “Oh my God. We can’t even be friends anymore.”
    “Why? Was he a friend of yours?”
    “You know what,” he says, “just stop. Just—I can’t even talk to you right now.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #3
    “It's not charity," I snap. "He cares about me--and I care about him!"

    Warner nods, unimpressed. "You should get a dog, love. I hear they share much the same qualities.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #4
    “His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever.

    Because this.

    This is everything.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #5
    “I am going to MURDER YOU—”
    “No,” he says, pointing at me as he shifts backward again. “Bad Juliette. You don’t like to kill people, remember? You’re against that, remember? You like to talk about feelings and rainbows—”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #6
    “I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #7
    “Twice.
    Once for Adam.
    Once for Warner.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #8
    “Stop.
    Stop time.
    Stop the world.
    Stop everything for the moment he crosses the room and pulls me into his arms and pins me against the wall and I'm spinning and standing and not even breathing but I'm alive so very very alive.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #9
    “When are you putting me down?" he counters, no longer amused. "I mean, I've got an excellent view of your ass from here, but if you don't mind me staring -"
    I drop him without thinking.
    "Goddammit, Juliette - what the hell -"
    "How's the view from down there?" I stand over his splayed body, arms crossed over my chest.
    "I hate you.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #10
    “For so many years I thought my life was difficult; I thought I understood what it meant to suffer. But this. This is something I can’t even begin to comprehend. I never stopped to consider that someone else might have it worse than I do.
    It makes me feel ashamed for ever having felt sorry for myself.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #11
    “Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #12
    “Juliette." I close my eyes. He says, "I don't want you to call me Warner anymore." I open my eyes. "I want you to know me," he says, breathless, his fingers pushing a stray strand of hair away from my face. "I don't want to be Warner with you," he says. "I want it to be different now. I want you to call me Aaron.”
    Tahereh Mafi

  • #13
    “It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #14
    “His smile is laced with dynamite. "Go to sleep"
    "Go to hell."
    He works his jaw. Walks to the door. "I'm working on it.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #15
    “And I've fallen.

    So hard.

    I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I've felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I've known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I've seen things that cannot be unseen.

    And yet I've known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching.

    Love is a heartless bastard.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

  • #16
    “Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you and all it's gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don't torture me," he says, meeting my eyes again.
    "It's a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #17
    “People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

  • #18
    “I touch the tip of my finger to his lips. "There are secrets in here," I say. "I want them out."

    He tries to bite my finger.

    I steal it back.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #19
    “Lift your hips for me, love.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #20
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
    W.E.B. DuBois

  • #21
    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #22
    Sarah Dessen
    “I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
    "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"
    I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #23
    Sarah Dessen
    “You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”
    Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

  • #24
    Sarah Dessen
    “Hate Spinnerbait!”
    Sarah Dessen

  • #25
    Sarah Dessen
    “All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #26
    Sarah Dessen
    “Disco...is great for healing.”
    Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

  • #27
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #28
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #29
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    Paul Terry

  • #30
    Jennifer E. Smith
    “That’s the way these things work, kiddo,” he says. “Love isn't supposed to make sense. It's completely illogical.”
    Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight



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