Ilsa J. Bick quotes:

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  • My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

  • Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

  • 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.

  • Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone

  • 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.

  • ..... desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.

  • We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

  • The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

  • Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

  • The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.

  • What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

  • They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

  • 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.

  • Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don't because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn't look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

  • 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.

  • But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

  • Those brain-zapped kids weren't the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

  • This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

  • So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

  • She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

  • What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

  • The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

  • I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

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