“Just start somewhere, Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits between my teeth. It doesn t have to be at the beginning. She d pulled her legs up, Indian-style, letting the legal pad she d been holding drop to the floor. I thought everything always had to start at the beginning, I said. Not in this room, she said easily. Go ahead, Caitlin. Just tell me one thing. It gets easier, I promise. The first thing is always the hardest. I looked down at my hands, stained mildly red from the particularly sticky watermelon Rancher. Okay, I said, reaching forward to take another one out of the bowl, just in case. She was already sitting back in her chair, readying herself for whatever glimpse I would give her into the mess I d become. What was the name of Pygmalion s sister? She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. Ummm, she said, keeping her eyes on me. I don t know. Rogerson did, I told her. Rogerson knew everything.”
“The actions of yesterday, the pretenses of tomorrow, and the presence of now, have forever added to history.”
“He used to call vampires the breathing ghosts - for, as he put it, we existed in a kind of limbo-land between the living and the dead. We breathed, but we were not alive. We flitted through the air, but we still left foot prints on the ground. We were, and are, neither one nor the other, but something else entirely.”
“A woman can lend a man the strength to conquer a kingdom, and bring him to his knees with one breath.”
“It’s funny how those we care about can create the same reaction that we get when we are facing down a monster ready to kill us.”
“If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!”
“How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.”
“Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line”
“Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it s all the rage”
“She clenches the crystal necklace that Dagna gave me, the one I always wear. “Never lose this, Harmony. It is a symbol of the beginning. The power that still lingers inside it will help you, but even as it fades, the memory of everything until now will carry you as if it were still strong.”
“I guess it’s worth a shot.” More than likely a wasted bullet, but I’ll fire anyway.”
“Who would have ever thought going to a library would be so scary?”
“We don t know what s happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.”
“Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace! Don’t be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world”
“In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.”
“When you have crush you become nothing but a poet”
“Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus”