Chapter 27 Quotes

“You could love me, you know." He's smiling a strange sort of smile. "We would be unstoppable. We would change the world. I could make you happy." he says to me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Juliette, please-"
Warner is screaming my name and I look up despite my best efforts.
His eyes are two shots of green punched through a pane of glass. Cutting through me.
I take a deep breath and hope I won't die.
I take a deep breath and inch my way down the rope.
I take a deep breath and hope Warner doesn't realize what just happened.
I hope he doesn't know he just touched my leg.
And nothing happened.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“What Foundling does isn’t thinking outside the box so much as stealing the box and hitting her opponents with it until they stop moving.”
– Extract from “A Commentary on the Uncivil Wars”, by Juniper of the Red Moon Clan”
― ErraticErrata, So You Want to Be a Villain?

“I want you to live up to your potential!"
"Let me go," I say quietly. I don't want to be your creature. I don't want to hurt people."
"The world has already hurt you," he counters. "The world put you here. You're here because of them! You think if you leave they're going to accept you? You think you can run away and live a normal life? No one will care for you.
No one will come near you-You'll be an outcast like you've always been! Nothing has changed! You belong with me!”
― Tahereh Mafi

“But I wouldn't tell them a thing. The less they knew, the better. I was positive of that. Ignorance is bliss, and the opposite of ignorance is the opposite of bliss.”
― Katie Alender, As Dead As It Gets

“Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are the memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”
― David Levithan, Invisibility

“I want this to be the sand that stays on my fingers.”
― David Levithan, Invisibility

“It's hard to hear people imply that you can't be who you know you are because your reality doesn't jibe with how they've been taught to see the world. It chips away at you; it sent me into the shadows to hide for the majority of my life.”
― Natasha Diaz, Color Me In