Ashes Quotes

“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, Ashes

“It was that stages-of-anger thing. I was shocked and then I got pissed and then I fought like hell … and then I went numb. They called it acceptance, but it wasn’t. It’s what happens when you have only two choices: live with the monster, or kill yourself.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“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, Ashes

“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, Ashes

“My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“Run, she told herself. Run, you idiot, run.

But she didn't. She couldn't. She just... couldn't.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“Those brain-zapped kids weren’t the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“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, Ashes

“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, Ashes

“Raccoon." She saw Ellie put a hand to her mouth to cover the giggles and then looked back at Tom. "Like, you caught it?"
"Well, it sure didn't get Fed-Exed [...]”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“A chronic headache muttered in her temples, but like Barrett said, no one ever died from pain. True, but some days you didn't much enjoy living either.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“Sometimes when you're sad, it's easier to be angry.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“How come adults got away with saying things that would sound rude coming out of her mouth?”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“As long as you're alive, there is hope...Hope is saying that I will live one more day, and that is a blessing, too.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“Best you shake the dust off your sandals, girl," Jess said. "The past is past”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

“You only want to brawl. You want a fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes,” said Jess.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes