Tanja > Tanja's Quotes

“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“We smile, because this is how we save the world.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“I never belonged anywhere until I met you.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“... Where did you go?”

“Down below.”

“Ugh,” she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.”

Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw.

...

I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. “I’m Deuce, animal from the underground.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“You can live without me."

"I don't want to."

I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“If this is the last time, let me say it so you never forget. I will always love you, Deuce. No matter where souls go, mine will be looking for you, solnyshko moyo."

"No. I want a promise instead. Promise you'll fight like you never have, so when the dying stops, you'll be on your feet looking for me here."

"I swear.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don't understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“Finally, I understood what else was going on. I might be slow, but given time, I put the pieces together. "You have no reason to be jealous, I promise. We talked... and trained. You're the only boy who gets close like this."
"Oh." A long, slow breath escaped him. "I feel so stupid."
I put my lips to his cheek and whispered, "Don't. I love you, Fade.”
― Ann Aguirre, Outpost

“He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde