“I think of the five generations it will take before [Mr. Perfect]'s born, and I want to scream. I want someone now.… — Jessica Khoury Immortality Copy Share Image
“The way he looks at me- steady and silent, bold and bright - makes me feel as if the storm outside were… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
“No! Aguaje is for girls. If a man eats to much of it, he starts to look like a woman. That is… — Jessica Khoury First impressions Copy Share Image
“To have thought that, with the right tests and the right lectures, I could be made into a cold-blooded, heartless killer. To… — Jessica Khoury Conscience Copy Share Image
“That your eyes are like bits of sky seen through the leaves. And that, like the rain washes the mud from the… — Jessica Khoury Cute Copy Share Image
“We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all… — Jessica Khoury Death Copy Share Image
“Keep your eye on the goal, not the steps you must take to reach it. The goal is everything. The steps are… — Jessica Khoury Goals Copy Share Image
“You won't tell?" "I'll add it to the box under my bed labeled 'The Secret Confession of the Immortal Pia'. Good Lord,… — Jessica Khoury Funny Copy Share Image
“Because you are young and free and one with the jungle. You are mortal, but instead of clinging to the hope of… — Jessica Khoury Death Copy Share Image
“Then he's here, emerging from the water like some kind of myth, some fabled Ai'oan god, his hand smoothing his wet hair… — Jessica Khoury Eio Copy Share Image
“I may as well shackle my wrist to a bolt of lightning as attach myself to a mortal.” — Jessica Khoury Death Copy Share Image
“I don't trust you," she whispered, her gaze caught in his as if hypnotized. He was close enough to kiss. He could… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing… — Jessica Khoury Civilization Copy Share Image
“I can't let the killing go on. No more death, not because of me. This is the only way. You and I… — Jessica Khoury Death Copy Share Image
“He lifts my hand from the root and presses it to his bare chest, over his heart. My breath stops. I wonder… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
“We...do things a lot differently, yes, but in many ways we are just the same as you...We eat, we sleep, we breathe.… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
“He said that seeing and understanding are two different things. Our eyes show us one side of an object, but that doesn’t… — Jessica Khoury Learning Copy Share Image
“Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well,… — Jessica Khoury Death Copy Share Image
“And we remember that there must be a balance. No birth without death. No life without tears. What is taken from the… — Jessica Khoury Balance Copy Share Image
