Chapter 14 Quotes

“So you just kill people for power."

"As do you."

"How dare you-"

He laughs, loud. "You're free to lie to yourself, if it makes you feel better."

"I am not lying-"

"Why did it take you so long to break your connection with Jenkins?"

My mouth freezes in place.

"Why didn't you fight back right away? Why did you allow him to touch for as long as he did?"

My hands have begun to shake and I grip them, hard.

"You don't know anything about me."

"And yet you claim to know me so well."

I clench my jaw, not trusting myself to speak.

"At least I'm honest," he adds.

"You just agreed you're a liar!"

He raises his eyebrows. "At least I'm honest about being a liar.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Why are you being nice to me?"

The suprise on his face suprises me even more.
"Because I care about you." he says simply.

"You care about me?" The numbness in my body is beginning to dissipate. My blood pressure is rising and anger making its way to the forefron of my consciousness. "I almost killed Jenkins because of you!"

"You didn't kill-"

"Your soldiers beat me! You keep me here like a prisoner! You threaten me! You threaten to kill me! You give me no freedom and you say you care about me?" I nearly throw the glass of water at his face. "You are a monster!"

Warner turns away so I'm staring at his profile. He clasps his hands. Changes his mind. Touches his lips. "I am only trying to help you."

"Liar."

He seems to consider that. Nods, just once. "Yes, most of the time, yes.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Well at least your awake," he sighs
"You had me worried."
"Get your hands away from me."
He waves sheathed fingers in front of my face.
"I'm all covered up. Don't worry."
"I hate you."
"So much passion." He laughs again. He looks so calm, so genuinely amused. He stares at me with eyes softer than I ever expected them to be.
I turn away.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of the brother and the sister that she would never have.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I love you too, he said. God, I love you, Isabelle.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I don’t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.”
“The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you,” I say.
Gale holds my gaze. “If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I wait, for the household to assemble. Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have and to hold, till death do us part.

The hold of a ship. Hollow.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“why do you have to fix the salad? who broke it? i didn't touch it. did you break the salad, mom? if you did, YOU'D BETTER FIX IT!”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“this is what i never allow myself to need.
and of course i've been needing it all along.”
― David Levithan John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Suffering is wisdom’s schoolteacher”
― Lauren Kate, Teardrop

“I want to look back, but I have to walk away, to do what must be done, and forget what must be forgotten.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“and i'm thinking, aren't i supposed to be the one who's freaking out here? tiny is going to be the first b-b-b- (i can't do it) boy-f-f-f (c'mon, will) boyf-boyf (here we go) boyfriend of mine that she's ever met.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“All lessons worth learning are drenched in blood.”
-Dread Empress Triumphant, First and Only of Her Name”
― ErraticErrata

“In the doorway stood an old woman—a rather bulky old woman. She had a very clean white apron tied round her ample waist and the moment I saw her I knew that everything was all right. It is the feeling that a good nannie can always give you. I am thirty-five, but I felt just like a reassured little boy of four.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“There was in her voice that authentic note of authority that never fails to produce its effect.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“Still, there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“I looked at her with the air, I hope, of one who was willing to understand.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“She turned abruptly and went. I had the feeling that she had meant something by her last remark that I did not quite understand.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House