Top 41 April Genevieve Tucholke Quotes
#1. Hence? My habit of reading more than I socialized made me use odd, awkward words without thinking.
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#2. It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.
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#3. I walked into her arms and we hugged like hugging was breathing and we'd been holding our breath for a long, long time.
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#4. But Luke would never be friends with a girl, even if they were into the same things - like locking me in closets with brutish boys from school, or setting the books I was reading on fire.
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#5. For your sake I have braved the glen, and had to do with goblin merchant men. Eat me, drink me, love me. Hero, Wolf, make much of me. With clasping arms and cautioning lips, with tingling cheeks and fingertips, cooing all together.
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#6. Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.
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#7. Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went.
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#8. I thought of myself so little that I began to worry that I'd been the only thing keeping myself in existence ... and now that I wasn't the center of my attention I'd disappear, poof into thin air, and no one would ever know.
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#9. Our town was small enough that I never developed a healthy fear of strangers. To me, they were exciting things, gift-wrapped and full of possibilities, the sweet smell of somewhere else wafting from them like perfume.
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#10. Your life is not your own, Vi,' she said. 'Don't you know that? It belongs to the people who love you. So you need to take better care of it.
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#11. Leaf once told me that there was absolutely no difference between the Orphans' fairy tales and the nose on my face, because both were only as real as I thought they were.
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#12. No matter what I've Done. And I've done a lot. He's never been afraid of me. Never hated me. You've got to love a person for that. Unconditional Devotion is Blue-moon rare.
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#15. There's truths and then there's truths, Violet. And some damn truths shouldn't be spoken out loud, or the Devil will hear, and then he'll come for you. Amen.
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#17. Wink wasn't a villain.
She wasn't a hero.
People aren't just one thing. They never, ever are.
Wink was flesh and blood.
She was bad.
And she was good.
She was real.
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#18. I'd never get the sound of her screams out of my head, or my heart.
Is this what it meant to be the hero?
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#21. We were like the three Fates, weaving the story together, threads of gold, red, and midnight blue.
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#22. I coughed and choked, and drowned on moonlight, which tastes like butter and steel and salt and mist. And then, just like that, just when I thought she was going to kill me, suck the air out of my lungs and make me a ghost too, she lifted her hand, and ... faded away.
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#23. I didn't move for a bit, just lay there thinking about things. Like how the world was full of mystery and magic and horror and love.
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#25. Did you think that if you created a fairy tale and made all of us play along, made me defeat a monster and become a hero ... you'd have a happy ending, like a princess in a hayloft story?
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#26. Lots of people have bad stories, and if they wail and sob and tell their story to anyone who'll listen, it's crap. Or half crap, at least.The stuff that really hurts people, the stuff that almost breaks them ... that they won't talk about. Ever.
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#27. Wink kissed deep. Deep as a dark, misty, forest path. One that lead to blood and love and death and monsters.
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#28. We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background
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#29. Freddie often fold me that you've got to be happy when you can, because life won't wait for you to take the time. And she was right.
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#31. Freddie used to say that Life could be safe, or it could be interesting, but it couldn't be both.
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#32. Please tell me you don't go around saying crap like that to everyone. No wonder no one in town ever talks to us. Wealthy families always have a crazy person or two. Is that really the role you want to play, Vi?"
"We're not wealthy anymore. Remember? So if I'm crazy, no one will care.
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#35. People like you don't go mad, Vi. They're quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long
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#36. Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.
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#40. River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men were slitting their throats in front of you.
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