Top 165 Quotes & Sayings by Ann Aguirre - Page 2

With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.

Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.

What was the good of having such a fine home if you weren't willing to fight for it?

Not just when its easy. All the time.

I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.

Did he die well?" No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.

My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy... or so scared.

They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.

For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.

This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and sacrifice. Don't lose hope. We've faced the darkness before-it has nothing new to teach us. As we go about our lives, let us remember the example Dr. Navarro set for us. At the right time, anyone can be a hero.

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.

Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.

Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

A divided heart offers a strange sensation.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

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.

I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.

Have you ever watched a child learning to walk? Before this week, I never had, but there's a certain grace to it. Well, if not grace, then tenacity. Fall down nine times--get up ten. And the tenth time you get where you're going, you don't stop, not for obstacles, not for other people telling you to stop. You don't listen to anything but that inner voice until you arrive where you want to be.

My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

You don’t need to be afraid of falling // when there’s someone around to catch you.

Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.

My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.

I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.

We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.

There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn’t notice that the heart is gone.

I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.

But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.

Love can make us do dreadful things.

While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.

Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them.

Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits—and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.

Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.

I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.

He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

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.

Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.

I'm Sirantha Jax, and I have had enough.

I wanted proof, not promises.

A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.

People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.

There’s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don’t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they’re all the same shade of gray.

Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.

He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.

You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.