“I can t imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret”
“Now that I had run out of steam I realized I was in Ronan’s room, at night. He was standing there in a pair of boxers and nothing else. Gulp. Maybe I shouldn’t be too hasty to throw away this betrothal. Ew. Great, Grazi, why not just drool all over the boy in his underwear after you pretty much told him you wanted nothing to do with him? I’m such a freak. “Um, I’ll see you tomorrow.” I turned around and left as quickly as I had come in.”
“Can you see the power emotion has to distort out outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?”
“Whoever is messing with my daughter, messing with my home, will be sorry they chose to play this game. I’ll be screaming checkmate before they even realise I moved my pawns…”
“Faccio volentieri delle promesse, specialmente quelle che non posso mantenere.”
“Just always remember to listen to your heart’s song…it will keep you alive”
“…I bet I’ll haunt your dreams tonight. I just wan’ed to paint a picture in your head. I wan’ed you to see me as the monster I can often be. You see, you are what you allow people to know ‘bout you. Truth or lies or some combination of the two, is what makes you who you are. So, you don’t know me yet. But what I need you to know about me for now, is that I can’t be trusted.”
“Il punto è che credi troppo volentieri a ciò che vuoi credere.”
“Besides, men aren’t worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we’d be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you’re the only person you can trust.”
“La paura ha tutto un altro sapore quando la si vive dal vero, Meggie, e giocare all’eroe non era così divertente come mi ero immaginato.”
“Just because we’re adults doesn’t mean we should grow up! The world’s a playground for us, Melody, and I for one intend to play!”
“I know you’re scared, Letti, but sweetheart…you haven’t seen anything yet. You’ve not known true fear...”
“Sai bene quanto il fuoco sia facile a offendersi.”
“She could just kill them. If she did they would be healed again in moments ☥ She d better let sleeping demons lie. Enlightenment. Coming soon”
“The minute grains of sand slipped silently down the curved hourglass, no matter how many times the people of Earth willed them not to. Time, fate and the actions of others were out of their control.”
“Hell, he now understood, went beyond simple torture. Hell inflicted agony with intermittent reprieves to maintain the hope of peace. Hell was not endless dark, but rare rays of sunlight to keep one’s eyes longing for their bright beauty. Hell forced hours of suffocation beneath the freezing water with times of release to keep one accustomed to the joy of breath, to let needful expectation be repeatedly stabbed by deprivation.”
“The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.”