Ann Aguirre Quotes - Page 4

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• It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.

  Ann Aguirre

  Trying, Defeat, Stop Trying

  Ann Aguirre (2013). “Horde”, p.119, Macmillan

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• I have had passionate kisses and fierce ones, kisses so sweet they tasted like pure honey and kisses that cut like knives, but until this moment, I’ve never had one that said both hello and good-bye.

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  Sweet, Cutting, Kissing

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.257, Penguin

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• His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered

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  Butterfly, Wings, Dove

  Ann Aguirre (2013). “Horde”, p.228, Macmillan

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• Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.

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  World, Weight, Lips

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• Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

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  Pain, Perfection, Bears

  Ann Aguirre (2013). “Horde”, p.336, Macmillan

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• But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.

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  Dark, Wish, World

  Ann Aguirre (2013). “Horde”, p.60, Macmillan

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• He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.

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  Fighting, Men, Who I Am

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.257, Penguin

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• People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

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  Blessing, Appreciate, People

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.313, Macmillan

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• I wanted proof, not promises.

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  Promise, Proof, Wanted

  Ann Aguirre (2010). “Hell Fire: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.158, Penguin

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• Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?” “Only to people who try to kidnap me,” I tell him sweetly, and March snorts, so I feel obliged to add, “Or rescue me…” And then Dina makes a pfft sound. “Or who travel with me…” My gaze sweeps around the darkened interior, trying to find an ally, but nobody will hold my eyes more than two seconds, it seems. “Fine, frag you all, I’m dark juju, bad luck, and you’re all doomed.

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  Mother, Powerful, Eye

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• Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

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  Broken, Pieces, Sometimes

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.114, Penguin

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• I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.

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  Asking Questions, Sick, Answers

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.63, Penguin

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• There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

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  Loss, Self, Echoes

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.258, Penguin

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• It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.

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  Easy, Difficult

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.255, Penguin

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• Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

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  Stupid, Men, Hands

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• Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.

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  Hero, Sometimes

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.228, Penguin

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• There’s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don’t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they’re all the same shade of gray.

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  Hate, Jigsaw Puzzles, Borders

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• Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.

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  Naked, Fabric, Want

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.145, Penguin

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• Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.

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  Sorry, Eye, Different

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• I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk of the universe, true, but there’s still so much more to see. I doubt I’ll ever cure this wanderlust, and I’m content with dedicating my life to failing to sate it... He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

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  Mother, Hate, Dirty

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Wanderlust”, p.31, Penguin

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• A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.

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  Ignorant, Instinct, Partners

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “Mortal Danger”, p.365, Macmillan

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• Have you ever watched a child learning to walk? Before this week, I never had, but there's a certain grace to it. Well, if not grace, then tenacity. Fall down nine times--get up ten. And the tenth time you get where you're going, you don't stop, not for obstacles, not for other people telling you to stop. You don't listen to anything but that inner voice until you arrive where you want to be.

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  Children, Fall, Voice

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• I imagine the ones we’ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s reassuring, a promise of homecoming.

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  Light, Waiting, Promise

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.23, Penguin

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• My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.

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  Heart, Loss, Should

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Doubleblind”, p.176, Penguin

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• I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.

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  Hurt, Hurt Me, Possessed

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