Kiersten White famous quotes

I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.
-- Kiersten White

#Hurt #Passion #Love Is

...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.
-- Kiersten White

#Tired #Bored #Dating

Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their bleep bleep bleep obsessions. He had better stop bleep bleep bleep the bleep bleep rules or I will bleep bleep bleep the little bleeeeeeeeeeep.
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#Stupid #Littles #Computer

And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.
-- Kiersten White

#Reality #World #Lifetime

I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.
-- Kiersten White

#Love #Believe #Fall

You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.
-- Kiersten White

#Emotional #Law #Names

What do you think? Does this face make me look fat?
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#Thinking #Doe #Looks

He smiled at my reaction, the stupid smile of his that was like he knew something you didn’t. And he knew something I didn’t pretty much all the time, so it was pretty much every smile on his face.
-- Kiersten White

#Stupid #Faces #Reactions

I’d been fighting for this relationship since the day I first saw his water eyes.
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#Eye #Fighting #Water

You wonderful girl. I’ve missed you so much.” “Well, now that we’re both unemployed fugitives, think of how much time we’ll have to hang out!
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#Girl #Thinking #Wonderful

I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius.
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#Genius #Littles #Undead

If he wakes up, I swear I’ll do anything. I’ll open gates, I’ll help all the paranormals, I’ll never judge people wearing Crocs again. Just let him wake up. Please.
-- Kiersten White

#Judging #People #Wake Up

Bleep if I was going to stage a rescue in a freaking pantsuit.
-- Kiersten White

#Rescue #Stage

Well, that’s interesting,” I said. “What’s interesting?” Jack called from the other room. “Something is interesting?” Lend shouted. “No! Nothing!
-- Kiersten White

#Interesting #Rooms #Said

So, we’ve got a problem,” I said. “What?” Lend yelled. “We’ve got a problem!” I shouted. “No, I heard that. I mean, what’s the problem now?
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#Mean #Problem #Said

This particular type of human carries weapons slightly more lethal than your beloved pink monstrosity
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#Weapons #Beloved #Type

The Light Queen’s voice stilled the turbulent waves of my soul, singing calm and grace to every fiber of my being. Neamh. Ah, there, I was pissed off again
-- Kiersten White

#Queens #Voice #Light

So, thanks,” Vivian said. “For what?” I looked up at her, confused. “For being stupid enough to love your crazy, murdering lunatic of a sister and being such a pathetic dork that I couldn’t help but love you, too
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#Stupid #Confused #Crazy

We linked hands—my ex-boyfriend, my boyfriend, and my former friend-then-enemy-then friend and I—and walked through a door to see if maybe empty carbs were good for something after all.
-- Kiersten White

#Ex Boyfriend #Doors #Hands

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.
-- Kiersten White

#Want #Students #Language

I kind of wish they’d shut up,” Jack said. “Dude, true dat,” Lend answered. Jack nodded solemnly. “For serious.
-- Kiersten White

#Wish #Serious #Kind

Good luck trying to force Evie to do anything else once she has made up her mind. She is the definition of a stubborn, headstrong teenager.” “And you love me for it.” “I do.
-- Kiersten White

#Love #Teenager #Good Luck

Normal? What's that?" "How you really look." "Can you take off all your clothes?" Okay weirdest thing ever-I just asked myself to take off all my clothes. It doesn't get much creepier. "Why on earth would I do that?" "You asked me to be naked; I thought it was only fair.
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#Clothes #Naked #Looks

Lend.” “Lend?” Raquel asked. “Yes, as in, lend me your self.” He shimmered into Raquel again. “Why not Borrow?” I asked. “Better yet, Steal?
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#Self #Why Not #Stealing

Reth looked exasperated. “When is something ever not wrong in your life?” I frowned. “That’s my line.
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#Lines

You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.
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#Flower #Sunshine #Evil

I—What on earth just happened?” “Well, nothing on Earth, obviously.
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#Earth #Wells

Something smashed to the ground. Jack looked at me, all the mugs forgotten. "I'm not going to let anyone kill you." He grinned. "If I don't get to, no one should.
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#Forgotten #Should #Mug

Jack shook his head. "Not one of my many talents, sadly. But if you have a cherry stem I can show you a really cool one.
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#Talent #Really Cool #Cherries

Jack furiously chopped vegetables. "Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm...Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack.
-- Kiersten White

#Moving #Hero #Vegetables

Now, now, you aren't afraid of monsters in the dark, are you?" I caught a flash of her eyes, winking wickedly at me. "No," I said, shivering. After all, I was one of them.
-- Kiersten White

#Eye #Dark #Monsters

I've got a nine iron that says otherwise.
-- Kiersten White

#Iron #Nine

Evie? Evie! Ouch!" Jack yanked his hand out of mine,shaking it and glaring at me. "I need these fingers later.
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#Hands #Needs #Ouch

I had just lot my best friend, barely escaped having my life sucked out by a psychotic burning girl, committed treason and nearly gotten the guy I liked killed by a crazy faerie. What were hairy legs compared to that?
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#Girl #Crazy #Guy

Leave it to a boy to make the Faerie Realms look like a dump.
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#Boys #Looks #Dump

We've got a problem!" I shouted. "No, I heard that. I mean, what's the problem now?" "I have the solution!" Jack interrupted. "What?" I sat up, all ears. "Bells!" "What?" Lend and I asked at the same time. "Get her a kitty collar with bells on it. That way you can hear her coming and get someplace where you won't be hurt by collapsing immediately into sleep.
-- Kiersten White

#Hurt #Mean #Sleep

Don't go alone," Lend said, his voice tight with concern. "I'll take Jack." "Oh, wonderful, take the other psychotic guy in your life to go find the first one.
-- Kiersten White

#Voice #Guy #Firsts

Do you have any sort of plan?” Jack asked. “Not really.” “Eh, just as well. It’ll be less of a disappointment when you fail.
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#Disappointment #Failing #Plans

Ah, stupid, you know I love you, too.
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#Stupid #Love You #I Love You Too

I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.
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#Rainbow #Desire #Pay

Actually, you’re way off.” “Oh?” the guard asked. “Yup. She’s not a werewolf, she’s a chupacabra. Have you noticed a lot of missing goats lately?
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#Missing #Goats #Way

...lying spread-eagled in the hall with only my ankle inside the room that kept me prisoner here. They really should have thought of that and tagged my neck or something.
-- Kiersten White

#Lying #Necks #Ankles

Reth laughed. I punched him. It hurt. Me, not him, unfortunately.
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#Hurt #It Hurts #Hurt Me

Eyes like streams of melting snow,” she said, and it was all I could do not to roll my melting snow eyes.
-- Kiersten White

#Eye #Snow #Melting

Maybe I shouldn’t mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.
-- Kiersten White

#Mother #Law #Mouths

You're scaring me," Jack's voice finally cut through, and I opened my eyes, barely able to see him. "okay, good, yes, breathe. Breathing helps one stay alive,I've found.What on earth is so bad about a stupid school saying no?" "My life"-I gasped-"is over.It's over. Everything." He frowned dubiously. "Who would want to go to a place called Georgetown, anyhow? Ridiculous. Now,I could understand your devastation if it had a distinguished name like, say, Jacktown, but as it is,you're overreacting. Why do you want to go to more school? I went once for a few hours and nearly lost my mind.
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#Stupid #School #Eye

I think I might miss you, too. So few things left in this world to terrorize me and look pretty while doing it. Now get out of here and enjoy your eternity.” He glanced calculatingly at the gate once again, and I raised my hand in warning. “I can drain faster than you can run.
-- Kiersten White

#Running #Thinking #Hands

I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its soltitude. I will be the desert.
-- Kiersten White

#Strong #Stars #Sky

I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.
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#Heart #Cracks #Fists

There's a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize our bond. You can take the cat ouf of Egypt, but you can't take Egypt out of the cat. Wow, I should have that embroidered on a pillow or something.
-- Kiersten White

#Dog #Smart #Cat

Oh, shut up. He is not saying that he's too good-looking to be friends with girls. But then again, yesterday at the beach, there were a high percentage of beach beauties sitting very close to us and/or sauntering repeatedly past. And he never looked up once. I snort. "You poor handsome thing. If only you were ugly, then girls wouldn't have to throw themselves at you all the time. I could break your perfect nose for you, if it'd make your life easier.
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#Girl #Beach #Past

Soap operas got nothing on my family history.
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#Opera #Soap #My Family

Boys suck. Even when they have perfect blue eyes and ridiculously cool trucks. Maybe especially then.
-- Kiersten White

#Eye #Boys #Blue

I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat
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#Order #Tunes #Boat

- "Control what an interesting word for you to be dwelling on" - "I have other words" I scream the F-Word in my head, over and over again.
-- Kiersten White

#Dwelling #Interesting #Scream

I open my eyes to see Ry staring at me, and my desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot.
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#Eye #Dark #Rushing

My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.
-- Kiersten White

#Heart #Orion #Tides

I walked toward her office,lost in thought about Lish, and poor Steve,and all the other souls I'd sent out of this life,some quite literally. Where did they go?Did Steve go the same place as Lish?And was it vampire Steve ir normal Steve? What exactly happened to the souls when their human bodies died and became vampires?And then when the vampire bodies died?Hello,headache.
-- Kiersten White

#Office #Soul #Vampire

I rolled my eyes in aggravation and glared at the ceiling, hating what I had to confess. Lend knew how much it affected me, taking souls, and I always felt guilty and dirty, like he was judging me even though he tried not to. The faerie came after me when Reth was down and I sucked out some of her soul.Good.I-Good?Yes. Good.I shuddered. You don't have the creepy, ice thing in you. It's not good.You here, safe and alive? Good.I smiled sadly and knocked on the wall three times. I-knock-love-knock-you-knock.He knocked three times back.
-- Kiersten White

#Wall #Hate #Dirty

I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra souls because we started out with less, and that we could make gates because of our innately human sense of home. But my home was here. How on earth was I supposed to find another one?The gate needs to be opened and closed before dawn, Cresseda said, a hint of strain flowing through her voice.YES. THANKS FOR THAT. VERY HELPFUL RIGHT NOW.
-- Kiersten White

#Home #Eye #Voice

Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.
-- Kiersten White

#Grief #Eye #Flames

I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame it. The lens we see it through, or the way we tell our own stories. We mythologize ourselves. So I was thinking about Persephone's story, and how different it would be if you told it only from the perspective of Hades. Same story, but it would probably be unrecognizable. Demeter's would be about loss and devastation. Hades's would be about love.
-- Kiersten White

#Loss #Thinking #Perspective

In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.
-- Kiersten White

#Tonight #Select #Interest

I am the ocean we lived on for two months. I am empty. I am nothing.
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#Ocean #Two #Months

I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.
-- Kiersten White

#Pain #Lying #Symphony

I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry - There is a lot, oh, there is a lot - and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs.
-- Kiersten White

#Thinking #Singing #World

Their smiles are lies. Most smiles are.
-- Kiersten White

#Lying

-'I don't see what good it's going to do for you to waltz back in there and--' -'Can I tango back in there, instead? So much sexier than the waltz.
-- Kiersten White

#Tango #Waltz

Jack was balancing a spoon on his nose when I walked in. "You," I said knocking it off his face. "Me!" He answered cheerfully.
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#Noses #Spoons #Faces

Fabulous" Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as he severed the stem. He smiled maliciously, then started stomping with abandon through the beds of blossoms, a chorus of tinny, shrill screams punctuating every step.
-- Kiersten White

#Flower #Fabulous #Steps

Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls And darkness fall "I rubbed my temples, feeling a headache coming on."A for effort, ladies, but F for clarity. You do realise that your wierd poem things never explain anything",
-- Kiersten White

#Fall #Home #Fire

So who do you want to be?” I smiled, resting my head against his chest. “I’m not sure yet, but I’m looking forward to finding out.
-- Kiersten White

#Want #Looking Forward #Not Sure

Re-forming after the chaos,” I said, remembering Raquel’s words. “Choosing what we’ll do with how things are now, who we’ll be in this new world where the only magic left is what we make ourselves.
-- Kiersten White

#Magic #World #Chaos

It’s really over, isn’t it?” He laughed and pulled me into his lap. “That’s the beauty of it all. Nothing’s over. It’s just a new start.
-- Kiersten White

#Lap #New Start #Over It

I’ll see you in your dreams, okay, stupid?
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#Dream #Stupid #Okay

I opened the door and Lend smiled. 'They look better on you.' 'Wow, they must look just awful on you then.' I smiled back.
-- Kiersten White

#Doors #Looks #Wow

The doorknob twisted. “I’m coming with you.” I ran over and held it shut. “No, you are so not. We can’t carry your unconscious body around the Center. Besides, I need you here. If something goes wrong, I can’t handle you getting hurt.” “Wait, so it’s okay if I get hurt?” Jack asked. “Yes,” I snapped at the same time as Lend and Arianna. “As long as you’re sure, then,” Jack muttered.
-- Kiersten White

#Hurt #Long #Waiting

I could have kisses like that for the rest of my life. Kisses that don't know who I am. Kisses that make me feel more and less than what I am. But my finger tap tap taps on my leg and reminds me that I am not who Adam thinks I am, and it makes me want to cry. It's not that I don't deserve his kiss. It's that the person I am can never really share a life, a soul, with the person he is.
-- Kiersten White

#Kissing #Thinking #Who I Am

In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertson’s ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.
-- Kiersten White

#Gun #Thinking #Ears

Planning is not my friend. Impulse is.
-- Kiersten White

#Planning #Impulse

You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.
-- Kiersten White

#Mean #Names #Like You

Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful beyond anything faeries can ever hope to be. We cannot create but live forever, unchanging. You change with every breath, dying even as you live, but your thread to eternity and immortality is reborn with every new generation
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#Beautiful #Powerful #Animal

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.
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#Boredom #Black #Despair

So, are you two going to get married already or waht?" I laughed. "Excuse me?" Carlee rolled her eyes. "Please. You don't even look at other guys. And I have never seen a guy that crazy about a girl before. You're like, his entire world." I shrugged, smiling. "I can't imagine ever finding someone better than Lend. He just--knows me. Totally. Everything. And miraculously he still likes me." "Likes? Girls, he head-over-heels-freaking-loves you." "It's mutual!
-- Kiersten White

#Girl #Crazy #Love You

Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.
-- Kiersten White

#Survival #Instinct #Survival Instinct

Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls.He shrugged,an exaggerated look of innocence on his face. Still,it wouldn't hurt for me to try,would it?You have got to be the most sefless boyfriend alive.Like I said,anything worthwhile is worth making sacrifices for.Speaking of which,weren't you going to give me a tongue demonstration?
-- Kiersten White

#Hurt #Sacrifice #Giving

The only life I want is one with you.
-- Kiersten White

#Want

No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand?
-- Kiersten White

#Thinking #Listening #Banned

I can’t see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, since your clothes aren’t real.” I stopped, horrified. “I mean, I don’t look—It’s hard to see you, and I like looking at your real face, but I don’t try to see anything, because—Oh gosh, this sounds terrible.” He had a funny look on his face, like he wasn’t sure what to think. “Huh. That’s never been an issue before. Maybe next time you could bring me some shorts.
-- Kiersten White

#Real #Mean #Thinking

I don’t want to be like her, like Vivian. I don’t want to hurt anyone. Am I going to hurt people?” “No one can make you do that, child. You are caught between two worlds, much like my own Lend. You will want the fire, you will want to be filled. It is your nature. I hope you do not fall, but she is much stronger than you are.” She smiled at me, reaching out as though she would wipe away my tears. “Cling to what is good in your life. Be good to my son.
-- Kiersten White

#Hurt #Children #Fall

High school’s actually kind of boring. It’s a little bit like living in the Center. Everyone thinks they know everything about everyone else, but really there’s a lot more under the surface. (Lend)
-- Kiersten White

#School #Thinking #Littles

Why’s the faerie so obsessed with you anyway? You’re not that cute.” (Arianna to Evie)
-- Kiersten White

#Cute #Obsessed #Faerie

Many of the male faeries had their shirts unbuttoned and chests bare. (How’s this for freaky: no nipples or belly buttons.)
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#Buttons #Males #Nipples

What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there—they’d be so disappointed.” I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. “Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren’t suave.
-- Kiersten White

#Sexy #Thinking #Flirting

Faeries are unaffected by alcohol, but much to her surprise—and the faeries’ undoing—they get very, very drunk on carbonation. Using copious amounts of Coke, she was able to discover a single faerie’s true name.
-- Kiersten White

#Names #Drunk #Alcohol

Then the other door opened. I wen't rigid. If I had thought Reth's was beautiful, it was nothing to this soul. It filled the night with light, dancing and rippling like the reflection on a pond. I hadn't seen many souls, but I knew this one was special. I wanted it. I needed it.
-- Kiersten White

#Beautiful #Night #Reflection

Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.” A primal growl signaled Miss Lynn getting over her shock at being thus addressed. She lunged forward; Jack deftly rolled off the bench, jumping up out of her reach. “Goodness, I didn’t expect you to be quite this enthusiastic about my advances. If I don’t play hard to get, how will I ever know whether or not you respect me?
-- Kiersten White

#Sweet #Children #Play

Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?
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#Lonely #Girlfriend #Unbalanced

That's more like it. You're much prettier when you aren't talking. True of most people, I've found.
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#Talking #People #Found

Wake up,' a voice like water rippling over rocks whispered in my ear.
-- Kiersten White

#Rocks #Voice #Water