Ilsa J. Bick famous quotes

04-17-2025

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Teacher #Judging #Said
I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Land #Phantoms #Ghost
As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives them hope. When hope fails, then watch out. Some people get brutal. They'll turn on each other; they'll become their own worst enemies.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Stress #Believe #Order
There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we neverÂ doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for somethingâ€”or someoneâ€”worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Lonely #Sacrifice #Doubt
Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Needs #Gone #Sometimes
As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Girl #Dog #Why Not
They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Looks #Instinct #Drowning
Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Thinking #Order #Suffering
But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Broken #Doe #Needs
This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Teeth #Fairy Tale #Tales
So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Two #Needs #Stories
The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Grief #Eye #Green
She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Girl #Heart #Kind
What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Chance #Take A Chance #Whole Life
The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Thinking #Hair
Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?" She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance. Instead, he kissed her.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Voice #Apples #Fire
Those brain-zapped kids werenâ€™t the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Kids #Brain #Enemy
Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Heart #Follow Your Heart #Lost
Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you donâ€™t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesnâ€™t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#People #Skins #Looks

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