Crina > Crina's Quotes

“When you know who I am. Let me be your man.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”
― Karen Marie Moning

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

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“You don’t need to be afraid of falling // when there’s someone around
to catch you.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“Are you afraid of falling, baby?
No, I’m afraid of landing.
[He’s laughing, and I’m smiling.]
Stupid idiot smile, don’t you know what comes next?”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“They say an interesting life leaves its mark on your face, and if that’s true,
she’s got one hell of a story.”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

“I’m just staring at him, mouth half-open. As soon as I realize it, I find something to say, anything. “Who the hell are you?”

“March,” he tells me.

“That a name or an order?”
― Ann Aguirre, Grimspace