Ann Aguirre famous quotes

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Pain #Surviving

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Dark #Dust #Sky

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Moving #Past #Way

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.
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#Cutting #Perfect #Despair

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.
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#Opportunity #Thinking #People

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.
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#Lying #Fighting #Skills

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.
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#Taken #Bye #People

Sometimes I miss the old me.
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#Missing #Sometimes

We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Pain #Distance #Glasses

People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.
-- Ann Aguirre

#People #Trying #Answers

You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.
-- Ann Aguirre

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.
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#Truth #Secret #Exposed

But the world moves on, even when you don’t want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops. That’s harsh and magical and somewhat comforting because nothing is immutable, however much we want it to be. Moments cannot be caught like fossils in amber, ever- perfect,ever-beautiful. They go dark and raw, full of shadows, leaving you with the memories. And the world moves on.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Beautiful #Memories #Moving

She carries chaos like an overcoat.
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#Chaos #Overcoat

I know just how he feels that it’s come to this. Sometimes, love isn’t enough, even when it’s all you have.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Sometimes #Enough #Feels

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.
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#Infinite #Solace #Single Word

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.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Fighting #Men #Who I Am

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.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Sweet #Kissing #Cutting

I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Thinking #People #Unhappy

Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Honesty #Kissing #Wish

But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.
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#Razors #Fields #Steps

If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed
-- Ann Aguirre

#Girl #Cutting #Hair

No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Heartbreaking #Matter #Sometimes

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.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Mother #Hate #Dirty

Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Unique #Love Is #Giving

Dying isn’t like living; it requires no effort at all.
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#Effort #Dying

Survival feels like cowardice.
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#Survival #Cowardice #Feels

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

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.
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#Done #Bears #Scar

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.
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#Pushing #Mets #Persons

I know you have bad news,” I say softly. “I’m ready for it.” But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Lying #News #Ready

We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.
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#Block #Legs #Arms

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Choices #Promise #Matter

. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Dream #Soul

So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will be magnified a hundred times over, then dissected by the pundits and talking heads. But I’m told it’s necessary; the world needs to see me vulnerable and wounded. I cannot appear not to care or to lack remorse, but that removes a crucial component of my self- defense mechanism and leaves me bleeding for all the world to see. I suppose that’s rather the point.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Pain #Talking #Self

For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Crazy #Heart #Soul

Right now, I wish I’d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don’t need me. You don’t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Selfish #Mean #Leaving

Finally, I understood what else was going on. I might be slow, but given time, I put the pieces together. "You have no reason to be jealous, I promise. We talked... and trained. You're the only boy who gets close like this." "Oh." A long, slow breath escaped him. "I feel so stupid." I put my lips to his cheek and whispered, "Don't. I love you, Fade.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Stupid #Love You #Jealous

If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Eye #Winning #Gone

You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Beautiful #Moving #Numbness

Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don't understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Hate #Mean #Dark

Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Light #Bird #World

If this is the last time, let me say it so you never forget. I will always love you, Deuce. No matter where souls go, mine will be looking for you, solnyshko moyo." "No. I want a promise instead. Promise you'll fight like you never have, so when the dying stops, you'll be on your feet looking for me here." "I swear.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Love You #Fighting #Feet

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.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Pain #Perfection #Bears

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

With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.
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#Insane #Polite

It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Trying #Defeat #Stop Trying

Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Hurt #World #Heal

Not just when its easy. All the time.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Easy

They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Memories #Moving #Dust

For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Fighting #Firsts #Persons

With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Partners #Fear Nothing

I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Stupid #People #Assuming

Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Humble #Army #Matter

I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm." My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Sick #Dresses #Deuces

Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Hurt #Distance #People

Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.
-- Ann Aguirre

#People #Easy #Rest Easy

If you don't tell me what's on your mind, I can't guess
-- Ann Aguirre

#Mind

I sighed. 'It's hard. You're the only one who listens to what I have to say.' Longshot dropped a gentle, comforting arm around my shoulders. 'Then speak louder, girl. Don't let them put out your spark.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Girl #Comforting #Arms

Don’t let them see you weak.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Weak

Did he die well?" No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Wells

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

#Blessing #People #Appreciate

Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.
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#Beautiful #World #Ugly

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.
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#Fighting #Absence #Stomach

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.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Dark #Wish #World

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Love You #Easy #Understood

This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and sacrifice. Don't lose hope. We've faced the darkness before-it has nothing new to teach us. As we go about our lives, let us remember the example Dr. Navarro set for us. At the right time, anyone can be a hero.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Hero #Sacrifice #Winning

I admired Stalkers style. He was incredibly fast using two small blades strapped to the backs of his hands. Slash slash slash. Fighting him you wouldn’t die of one great wound but instead bleed out slowly surprised to find yourself weak and dying after a thousand cuts.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Fighting #Cutting #Two