Top 100 Cynthia Hand Quotes
#2. But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.
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#3. That's what I feel. I'd die to protect you.
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#4. So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.
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#5. Yes, Gracie was a fox. No, really. She was. Literally. (We know. It's too good.) The
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#6. I try to smile, but my heart's breaking all over again. Because I know that I can't stay here.
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#7. The look that passes between Jeffrey and Kimber right then feels like it requires a swell of cheesy music in the background. Aw, I think. Baby brother's in love. I also find this kind of gross.
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#8. I'll never forget the way he tastes. It's not anything I can describe, a little sweet and a whole lot of spice, and it feels, in that moment, absolutely right.
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#9. I lie down on my bed, my back to the window, and the tears finally arrive, running down my face, into my ears, onto my pillow. I lie there for a long time, for hours maybe, and right as I'm about to finally drift to sleep I think I hear the flutter of Christian's wings as he flies away.
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#10. She has a nice reading voice, I'll give her that, even though I suspect that underneath her polished exterior beats a heart of pure evil.
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#11. The whole place seemed like the look-don't-touch kind of home. Perfectly manicured. Never enjoyed.
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#12. She'd been presented to him as the intended of Francis, the dauphin (which Edward kept thinking sounded like the word dolphin, which seemed an odd term for a prince).
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#13. But right now, at the wedding supper, a bigger problem was emerging. Every time G thought about how to break the news to her, he gulped down a cup of ale. And he thought about it a lot. Every time he looked at his new bride. And he looked at her a lot.
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#15. As your abilities begin to grow, your angelic side will start to manifest itself in more noticeable ways."
"My angelic side. Great. Like I don't have enough to deal with."
"It's not so bad," Mom says. "You'll learn to control it."
"I'll learn to control my hair?
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#16. IF SCIENCE TEACHES ANYTHING, IT TEACHES US TO ACCEPT OUR FAILURES, AS WELL AS OUR SUCCESSES, WITH QUIET DIGNITY AND GRACE.
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#17. Because if it's not her fault, it's God's, and I'm not ready to be pissed at the Almighty.
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#18. I wonder if the prayers of angel-bloods count more than regular people's.
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#19. I don't know if
you know this about me, but I am a soldier.
Or the leader of God's army, but okay, let's be modest.
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#20. I just need to be mad for a little while, okay? I know it might not be the most mature thing, but there it is.
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#21. Dearest Jane, Sorry I made you marry a horse. Your father-in-law is trying to kill me. Send help. But
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#22. This man, this impostor of a man, can kill my body but he can't touch my soul.
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#23. Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."
Clara: "What?"
Tucker: "You.
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#24. She shrugs."Men"
"Men."
"If we can send one man to the moon, why can't we send them all there?
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#25. He grins. Unbelievable how gorgeous he is. And that he's mine. He loves me and I love him and how rare and beautiful is that?
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#26. Everything changes, I think. That is the only constant. We all grow up.
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#27. It's all me, the human part, the angel part. I love Tucker Avery.
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#28. You should try to be nicer to the other horses. You're herd animals. Who will you run with if he goes back to tell the others of your two-faced personality? Who will you compare apple notes with? Soon you won't have any friends but me.
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#29. So I'm in love. That crazy, forget to eat, float around in a daze, talk on the phone all night and bounce out of bed every morning hoping to see him kind of love.
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#30. We can take this "we belong together" thing slow
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#31. I don't love or hate humans. I respect them. They shape themselves, in a way that we angels do not. They tell lies and sleep around and curse, and they try to define themselves so valiantly. Who am I? they keep asking. Why am I here?
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#32. So spring break consisted of seven fun-filled days cooped up in the
house with Jeffrey, who was grounded because he'd won the Regional Wrestling
Championships
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#33. So he was her husband, Edward might eat her, and no one's hair could rival his.
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#34. I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in case, I dont know, his comic book collection decided to spontaneously combust. This was dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind of way
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#35. What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott? he asked me that night when he dropped me off from prom. And what he was really saying then, what would have come through loud and clear if I hadn't been so blind was, why don't you see me?
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#36. I didn't ever think you were a freak. I think ... I thought you were magic or something. I thought that you were too perfect to be real.
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#37. There's death all around us. Everywhere we look. 1.8 people kill themselves every second. We just don't pay attention. Until we do.
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#38. So you're still in love with my brother.
-Wendy Avery
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#39. It's funny how when people change, you forget the way they used to be.
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#41. I don't particularly want Kay to be a good person. I'm perfectly comfortable thinking about her as the wicked witch
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#42. He's waiting. He's still waiting. He's given up everything for me. His entire life. His future. Everything, because he wants to keep me safe. Because he believes, in his heart, that he's my purpose and I'm his.
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#43. There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
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#44. Love is a choice I've made. A verb. And that, because I believe in it, because I act on it is real. Love is a very real thing to me.
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#45. You might have noticed that Edward was a bit of a sexist. You can't blame him, really, since all his young life he'd been greatly exalted for simply having been born a boy.
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#46. I can't believe you're old enough to have your purpose," Mom says with a sigh. "Makes me feel old."
"You are old.
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#47. Okay, I say again. It seems that I've been reduced to single syllables by a single touch. Maybe Angela's right. Maybe the swoony hand-holding in my vision means that part of my purpose means getting this really hot guy as my boyfriend. That wouldn't suck.
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#48. A light comes on in his eyes. "Sure, why not? A date with Queen Elizabeth." He smiles.
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#49. Have a nice life, Clara," he says. "You deserve to be happy.
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#50. Go with polar bears, I say to myself. Polar bears at the North Pole. Baby polar bears scooting along after their mothers in the snow. Polar bears drinking Coca-Cola.
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#51. But if we believe that love is this powerful force that binds us together, and if this belief brings us happiness and stability in this tumultuous world, then what's the harm?
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#53. I see something like fear on his face. What if I'm an alien invader trying to lure him to a secluded place so I can suck his brains out? Or a vampire, ravenous for his blood?
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#54. Crap. No one's ever called me dorkina before. Derivative of dork. Not good.
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#55. How do you go on living like normal when you know that something bad's going to happen?
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#56. We're going to live tomorrow, and for long after. We'll have years and years to fight about everything you want to fight about."
He made it sound like it was a desirable thing.
"I hope so," Jane said. "I've been making a list."
"I don't doubt it. What shall we fight about first?
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#57. It's your mind you have to train, like your mom said that one time, you have to separate yourself from all the crap, get down to the core, focus.
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#58. He would have found the whole thing wildly exciting if he wasn't so tired of things being so wildly exciting.
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#59. Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences.
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#60. I beat at him uselessly with my fists. I scream. My mind races. I'll pee on him. Puke, bite, scratch. Sure, I'll lose, but if he's going to mark me I am going to mark him, too, if such a thing is possible.
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#61. In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees.
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#62. And there were no secrets between them anymore, save one. G wanted to confess it to his lady before they commenced with the very special hug.
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#63. She's one too," I say simply, mostly because I know Angela wanted to spring it on him herself, and it makes me feel better to ruin her plans. "And she's crazy, obviously." Christian nods, like this revelation comes as no surprise.
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#64. As he crept down the stairs, it occurred to him that as a weasel, she could've saved herself and left him to die. Again.
But when the time came, she didn't. Again.
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#65. In fact, I've essentially given up on the idea of flight altogether and accepted that I'm going to be an angel-blood who stays earthbound, a flightless bird, like an ostrich. Maybe, or in this weather, a penguin.
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#66. Will you tell me that I'm just as good as Stan?"
Dudley hesitated. "Well, Stan's exceptional."
He looked again at G's sword. "But...yes. You are quite...good. Please don't kill me.
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#67. Oh, you know. I'm queen of the rumor mill. It seems like there's been a new rumor about me every week since I got here. Comes with being the new girl, I guess. Have you heard the one where I seduced the basketball coach? That's a personal favorite.
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#68. Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.
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#69. You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If you want to talk to me, talk to me. I'll hear you ...
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#70. We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.
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#72. Everything changes. That's the only constant.
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#73. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
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#75. Are you any good at it?"
"Pulling idiots out of the snow? I'm the best.
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#77. Clara: "I won't hurt you." Be not afraid.
His eyes flashed with anger like i've come right out and called him chicken.
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#78. I have a sense that no matter what, no matter what darkness lies ahead, there is nothing that can overcome this power.
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#79. Note to self: buy some nunchucks or something.
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#80. Tucker: Is it okay to kiss you?
Clara: What?
Tucker: I won't get struck by lightning?
Clara: (laughs) No lightning.
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#81. I should have fought for you, Clara, even if I would have had to fight you to fight for you. I should have never let you go.
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#82. And most of all, she loved the way books could transport her from her otherwise mundane and stifling life and offer the experiences of a hundred other lives.
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#83. Clara's mother: Yes, and what could possible be more important to your life right now than Christian?
Clara: I'm going out with Tucker.
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#84. Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore. - HINDU PROVERB
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#85. This is isn't going to become one of those creepy situations where you show up at all hours of the night to watch me sleep, is it? he asks playfully.
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#86. Tucker: "Today we ran into a mama grizzly with two cubs at the ridge off Colter Bay and Clara sang to it to make it go away."
Mrs. Avery: You sang to it?
Tucker: Her singing is that bad.
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#87. I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I'll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I'd do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.
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#88. I love you," he murmurs. "Can you feel that? You. Not some destiny I think I'm called to. You. I'm with you. My strength. My soul. My heart. Feel it.
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#89. It' like he has the ability to take on some of my pain. I feel so much better around him. Stronger. And he is willing to take my pain. He wants to bear it with me. I can see it shining in his eyes. I'm more than a duty to him. I'm more than his literal dream girl. I'm so much more.
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#90. He thought maybe the purest form of love is letting me go.
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#91. But he's like a god. You worship the gods but you don't go out with them. You only like guys like that from a distance.
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#92. She was pleased her demure stature was finally good for something. It was an advantage at last. A boon. An asset. A virtue - She stopped herself from continuing her synonym spiral. There was work to do.
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#95. So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.
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#96. I think he seriously believes that deflowering an angel could mean an eternity in fiery hell.
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#97. What purpose will your death serve?"
"It will serve to prove that you do not control this kingdom. It will serve to prove that not everyone will bow down to you. You think to rule us with fear, but you cannot. I will never renounce my beliefs, or my husband.
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#98. She delighted in the smell of the ink, the rough feel of the paper between her fingers, the rustle of sweet pages, the shapes of letters before her eyes.
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#99. I shouldn't have concerned myself with whether he'd keep his promise. I should have thought about whether I'd keep mine.
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#100. I am amazed at how being with him changes everything for me, socially speaking.
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