Ann Aguirre
More than most, I know the pain of surviving.Collection: Pain
I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.Collection: Stupid
I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.Collection: Dark
Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.Collection: Cutting
Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.Collection: Moving
You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.Collection: Knows
We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.Collection: Pain
Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.Collection: Opportunity
Don’t let them see you weak.Collection: Weak
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.Collection: Fighting
My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.Collection: Lying
I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.Collection: Taken
Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.Collection: Unique
People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.Collection: People
Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.Collection: Truth
Sometimes I miss the old me.Collection: Missing
But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.Collection: Moving
We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.Collection: Block
He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.Collection: Moon
The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.Collection: Cutting
He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.Collection: People
If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.Collection: Eye
Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.Collection: Weak
I know you have bad news,” I say softly. “I’m ready for it.” But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.Collection: Lying
Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.Collection: Stupid
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.Collection: Hero
Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.Collection: Light
If this is the last time, let me say it so you never forget. I will always love you, Deuce. No matter where souls go, mine will be looking for you, solnyshko moyo." "No. I want a promise instead. Promise you'll fight like you never have, so when the dying stops, you'll be on your feet looking for me here." "I swear.Collection: Love You
My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy... or so scared.Collection: Heart
If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Strong
For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Memories
Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.Collection: Caring
Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.Collection: Honesty
Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.Collection: Beautiful
People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they hadCollection: Blessing
Did he die well?" No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.Collection: Wells
I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.Collection: Stupid
With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.Collection: Partners
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.Collection: Beautiful
Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don't understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.Collection: Hate
It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.Collection: Trying
But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.Collection: Dark
What was the good of having such a fine home if you weren't willing to fight for it?Collection: Home
But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.Collection: Razors
But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.Collection: Fighting
Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.Collection: World
He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.Collection: Bears
Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.Collection: Independent