To actually be a strong character, you have to have more than snark and stubbornness—you have to have brains. And I am beyond determined to be better than half the girls I read about.
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”
― Eragon
― Eragon
“Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose. ”
― Sunshine
― Sunshine
“So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.”
― Sunshine
― Sunshine
“Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you.
Can I trust him?
What do I have to lose?”
― Sunshine
Can I trust him?
What do I have to lose?”
― Sunshine
“Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.”
― Swan Song
― Swan Song
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