Althea ☾ > Books: buddy-read‎ (13)

"To the reckless, lovestruck kids.
(The former may be lethal, but the latter makes it worth it.)"

"It is at the moments when the doors open when things flow between the worlds, that stories happen."

“I’ve heard it all so many times I could probably deliver the rest of the speech myself. How the hard work and dedication of persons like themselves wealthy, powerful, white, had improved the condition of the human race.”

“If you are wondering why other worlds seem so brimful of magic compared to your own dreary Earth, consider how magical this world seems from another perspective. To a world of sea people, your ability to breathe air is stunning; to a world of spear throwers, your machines are demons harnessed to work tirelessly in your service; to a world of glaciers and clouds, summer itself is a miracle.”

“Stories are the red threads that we may follow out of the labyrinth. It is my hope that this story is your thread and at the end of it, you find a door.”

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.”

“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”

“Because they have some delusion that to be human and perishable is divine.”

“If heart alone could win the war, we’d already be victorious.”

“In general, however, people were uncomfortable around misfortune and reluctant to admit to their own.”

“Screw you, Hilo,” she snapped. “I can kill my ex-boyfriends myself.”

“People were people. The power of jade didn’t make them better or closer to godliness; it just made them more powerful”

“Nothing good's coming, when the dogs start disappearing from the streets.”

// buddy read with mah friend

“It was impossible to imagine that such harm could happen under the promise of such a blue sky.”

“All the times I say, ‘Don’t see me’? With you, I wish I had an opposite power: See me. See me, Evie. See all of me. There’s a fella who loves you right here. I’m not perfect. I’m a handful. But you know what? So are you. There. Not sugarcoating it.”

“Few things in life are more disappointing than knowing your parents aren’t being honest with you.”

// buddy read with Mina and Michelle

“If you do not find yourself a galaxy, it is not so bad to find yourself a star.”

“She was trained in the sword of heavy infantry,”

“On the day of your judgement, when you’re asked why you didn’t stand up for what you knew was just… loyalty to your family won’t excuse you.”

“In what world do men and women pay the same price for passion?”

// buddy read with Tristan, Lenn, Angele, Rose, Pauline, and Pau

“We are imperfect beings," Munira said.
"How could we

“We are imperfect beings," Munira said.
"How could we ever fit in a perfect world?"

“Not even the Thunderhead can be sure about tomorrow... Let’s be satisfied with today.”

“Time is never of the essence until someone decides that it is.”

“One of the benefits of being Madagascan is that we see people as people. When it comes to attraction, gender is never part of the equation.” Then Jeri looked up as the light dimmed slightly.

“You see? The sun has passed behind a cloud again, and nothing has changed.”

“Then, when the heavens were spent, the sun came out as it always did, and the Thunderhead got back to the solemn business of taking care of things."

”That’s exactly what the scythedom is: high school

”That’s exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder.”

”If we were judged by the things that we most regret, no human being would be worthy to sweep the floor.”

“Then let me be the Queen of Monsters.”

“Then let me be the Queen of Monsters.”

“A king is not his crown.”

“I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor?
One piece at a time.”

“I told you once that I am what you made me. But I am not only that. You raised me to be uncompromising, yet I learned mercy.”