“I never belonged anywhere until I met you,” he said, resting his cheek against my hair.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“But folks took for granted their blessings and often didn’t appreciate them until it was too late to offer thanks.” — Ann Aguirre Blessings Copy Share Image
“For a long time, I stood in the circle of his arm and counted the stars. I ran out of numbers before… — Ann Aguirre Astronomy Copy Share Image
Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“Pull yourself together. People among the living still need your help, and I haven't given you permission to quit.” — Ann Aguirre Death Copy Share Image
But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It… — Ann Aguirre Change Copy Share Image
“How do you measure love? Quantify it? It's not something you can put on a scale or pour into a beaker to… — Ann Aguirre Love Copy Share Image
He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad. — Ann Aguirre Angry Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in love at all," he returns, equally quiet. "It's just a name people give the endorphins that spring up… — Ann Aguirre Believe in love Copy Share Image
People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t… — Ann Aguirre Don't change Copy Share Image
This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's… — Ann Aguirre Choices Copy Share Image
“You’re clumsy. But it can’t be helped. You are who you are. It feels like the answer to a question I feared… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams… — Ann Aguirre Dream Copy Share Image
“Does changing for the better absolve you of all the wicked shit you did before? No. March fills my head like a… — Ann Aguirre Change Copy Share Image
“A new voice pops up on the comm, relayed from the station. March. "What the frag are you doing, Triumph? Who's at… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“I get it. You'd rather have him, broken, than me whole. If that didn't clarify my chances with you, nothing would. But… — Ann Aguirre Friendship Copy Share Image
“I'm going to be straight with you... because this dance is killing me. Don't imagine for a second that I don't want… — Ann Aguirre Dance Copy Share Image
“And maybe what I meant when I said that about Deuce is I don't want to do without her.” — Ann Aguirre Deuce Copy Share Image
After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only… — Ann Aguirre Fear Copy Share Image
“That's when I realize - he's afraid of me every bit as much as he is of Vel. We're like the wicked… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the… — Ann Aguirre End of the day Copy Share Image
“There are shades of warmth from the sweet ember of possibility to the roaring fire that fills your soul.” — Ann Aguirre Fire Copy Share Image
“You can lick your wounds and miss me until you come searching for me... because you’re mine and I’m yours.” — Ann Aguirre Deuce Copy Share Image
Are you afraid of falling, baby? No, I’m afraid of landing. [He’s laughing, and I’m smiling.] Stupid idiot smile, don’t you know… — Ann Aguirre Baby Copy Share Image
“But Perdition was a much asylum as prison, and when you were standing in somebody else's delusions, it was both polite and… — Ann Aguirre Asylum Copy Share Image
A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“It hurts, but then, what doesn't? Pain proves that we're alive, gives us the ability to appreciate pleasure - everything in balance,… — Ann Aguirre Pain Copy Share Image
Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid. — Ann Aguirre Opportunity Copy Share Image
“...but I wished I could convince her that she didn't have to be anything in particular to be worth saving.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future. — Ann Aguirre Better future Copy Share Image
I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“Nobody's ever made my dreams come true before," he finally whispered. "Then you were due." Chapter Fifteen” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“I refute a god who would do such a thing to test people who have done their best to live according to… — Ann Aguirre Faith Copy Share Image
“We’re both so fucking broken that I understand our strange attraction, a push-pull magnetism born of similar scars.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy... or so scared. — Ann Aguirre Heart Copy Share Image
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