Top 77 Donna Augustine Quotes
#1. I could deal with hate and fear, but for the love of all that's right in the world, don't fake like me. Life was too short to waste energy faking anything.
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#2. We visited the unlucky in the hospital and went to funerals, always remarking on the tragedy. But every time we stepped too close to it, we saw our own demises. We went with the full knowledge that we would one day die as well.
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#3. It was like every man in my life knew exactly what I wanted them to do and then did the exact opposite, just to fuck with me. "I'm
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#4. Did he think I was kneeling out of some sort of weird worship ritual because he'd managed to shoot me?
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#5. I pretended my eyeballs had weights on them to stop myself from rolling them to the back of my head.
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#6. hell if I was going to be another person who stood by and watched another person get abused without helping. Some of the world's greatest atrocities could've been stopped if people hadn't just stood around watching.
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#7. it was almost sad how much stronger the bad times bonded you then the good, welded you together by the heat of brimstone.
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#8. We, on the other hand, are most certainly here, in this house, eating this very tasty bacon. And as long as there's bacon, shit just ain't that bad.
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#9. She was walking toward the house as happy and stupid as I'd ever seen her. She might as well be shitting rainbows from the look on her face.
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#10. You are familiar with World War 2?"
"Of course I am. I'm dead, not stupid.
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#11. Why did nobody in my life listen to me? So many things could be averted if they did.
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#12. I was going down and hard. There are a few things in life that suck really badly. Loving someone who doesn't love you back is one of them.
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#13. Anyone who thought death warmed over didn't look good, had never seen this guy.
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#14. took the slip from his hand and looked at the strangle symbols.
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#15. Sometimes I'm amazed I've made it this far in life without ever being punched in the face.
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#16. He smelled too good, he looked too good and it was just completely unfair. Villains were supposed to be ugly. Just another way I was getting screwed in this deal. My villain didn't even look like he was supposed to.
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#17. Desperate people should be placated until you can get as far away from them as humanly possible, because desperate people had a bad tendency of blowing up and taking you with them.
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#18. I couldn't avoid my reflection in the large mirrored wall that sat over the vanity area... I had grey smudges of mascara streaked down my face. I guess that's what you get for buying the cheap makeup. Next breakdown I'd be sure to wear waterproof.
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#19. The thing that makes us who we are, that goes with us from life to life, it never changes. We always know the people that have surrounded us deep down, whether they are meant to be in our lives at that moment of time or not.
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#20. Don't push it." Cormac said as he looked back to Burrom. "You'll go under again one day, and I'll find out where you're buried and plant a goddamn park bench right over your ass."
"You wouldn't!"
"With a colorful flower box full of daises right beside it.
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#21. He leaned forward, his lips grazing her ear before he spoke. "I know you want this too. I've seen the way you look at me.
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#22. I might be sexually naive, but I wasn't utterly stupid. Or not anymore. That was an I want some sexy time look.
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#23. What are you doing?" she asked.
"What I've imagined doing to you all day. Throwing you on my bed and fucking you until your legs are too weak to try and stand.
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#24. I already told you I hate these questions. You only ask the ones you know the answers to. You might as well have the conversations with yourself.
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#25. No, I might not know what's coming, but I know where you're going.
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#26. I'm the product of my environment. And it's one nasty fucking world out there.
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#28. Only honest people take you at your word. Liars and thieves expect the same in return. Unfortunately for him, I didn't have a problem lying when it came to saving my own ass.
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#29. Oh, my god, you moron, she's one of us. She's a Keeper! Humans don't spit bullets back out! I gotta go get Cormac. This isn't good.
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#30. I still don't like you right now, but I'll probably not hate you tomorrow." "I can live with that.
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#31. I'd title them and file them away as this or that. Everything they did was then filtered through that title, whether it was accurate or not.
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#32. She didn't like to brag about being homeless. She was humble like that.
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#33. I don't know if you should be this happy. I'm not sure how much math they taught you at that place you came from, but although two is twice as much as one, in our equation, two still equals fucked.
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#34. resisting was only going to accentuate how weak my position really was. I stopped fighting, as there was no need to broadcast it.
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#35. We weren't a couple, but friends didn't spoon every night. Fate and I were officially in relationship-no-man's-land.
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#36. Sometimes the devil you know is just that - some asshole to steer clear of.
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#37. If I controlled the world, no one would die before their laugh lines had time to set in.
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#38. Time was funny like that. If you didn't keep track of it, make the most of every moment, it could run away from you.
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#39. The place was locked up tighter than my fist around a piece of bacon.
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#40. I wonder if he ever smelt bad. Maybe if he got all sweaty. No, that wasn't a good thing to think about either. I'd seen him all sweaty as he'd covered my body with his. There was good sex, and then, there was that night.
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#41. I walked past several open doors and tried not to look into any, no matter what odd noises I heard. I didn't want to see anything. I already had too many bad visions stored in my "I wish I hadn't seen that" mental album.
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#42. People say karma's a bitch. Personally, I really don't think I'm that bad.
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#43. The way I feel about you doesn't come with a set of restrictions. There are no rules that say if you do this or you don't do that, I won't care anymore. This is just an aspect of who you are and I love you for the entirety of you, not for the different pieces I can pull out.
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#44. I guess that was the dichotomy of death. Sometimes it was frightening but every now and then in the right moment in life, it was warm and welcoming.
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#45. I also wouldn't mind if he tried out a little bit of what I'd read in chapter ten of the half-naked man book, especially the page I'd dog-eared.
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#46. I wanted to stare it down and give the reaper the middle finger when I went.
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#47. I don't like this." Cormac punched the stone of the wall as he paced the room. He'd been periodically punching things all day and I'd been graciously not commenting on it.
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#48. For all that my co-workers put such stock in not being a transfer, we had a definite edge in one area. As a human, you were born knowing that you were going to die.
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#49. What's worse than dead? Is there a new ranking system in the Wilds I'm unaware of?
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#50. I stood staring at this man, who accepted me fully, and it dawned on me for the very first time, he might be a better person than I was. I'd picked apart every action he'd ever made and weighed it by my scale of correct and incorrect, while he simply accepted me for everything I was.
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#51. The sizzle I felt being near him was so intense, but I couldn't figure out if they were fireworks or warning flares.
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#52. Don't judge. That was a joke. How could I not? Everyone judged whether we admitted to it or not, usually saving the harshest criticisms for ourselves.
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#53. He needed to stop acting like we were more than friends or clue me in on what he was up to. "I'm
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#54. Fear isn't always bad. Sometimes it's the lighthouse on the shore telling you to steer out of the storm. Don't
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#55. I don't like desperate people. They tend to do desperate things. Desperate people should be placated until you can get as far away from them as humanly possible, because desperate people had a bad tendency of blowing up and taking you with them. I
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#56. For someone who had died not long ago, she felt more alive with him than ever.
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#58. All the fighting and near-death experiences didn't come close to the intensity of life I felt exploding within me in at this moment. This was what I'd been looking for, the thing that would blast the taste of death from my mind until all I could do was feel.
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#59. People spend their lives in therapy to fight their natural inclinations. Day in and day out, not doing what they desire in the hopes of being this better, happier and more successful person.
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#61. Resist the dimples. Do not look at the dimples. They are defects. Shit, must ignore the dents.
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#62. He didn't get it. That's exactly why I needed my Maker's Mark. You can't throw my life into turmoil, and then screw me out of my bourbon too.
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#63. I've never been good at following directions. All you have to do is look at my Ikea bureau with the crooked drawers to figure that one out.
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#64. I stepped out and the sun was shining. And the birds were chirping. It was the nicest day we'd had in ages. A couple of bunnies scampering about. It could have been the start of a Disney flick.
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#66. I've seen countless wars, upheaval, the worse atrocities. I've known hundreds of thousands of people and watched them suffer. And yet the thought of anything happening to you brings me to my knees. Label that however you want.
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#67. I'm not saying therapy is bad, it's just too much work for me. I'm more about embracing my broken self for all that she can be.
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#68. Fate threw his hands up as I passed the ice cream stand. "Where are you going?"
"My condo."
"I still want ice cream."
"You still want ice cream?"
"Yes.
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#70. There is no better or worse, inferior or superior. It's figuring out where you're meant to be and then getting there. This is true in every aspect of your life. If you fight to stay somewhere you don't belong, it will never be good and never get better.
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#71. To sum it up, Fate was like the Universe's experiment in extra credit. If the rest of us were a scoop of vanilla ice cream, he was a sundae, with extra fudge and a cherry.
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#72. I should've written a contract up before we slept together so he understood exactly what it entailed outside the bedroom. It meant you have to agree with everything I say, especially when people I don't like are present
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#73. That if they wanted to die, couldn't they do it with someone else? These days, I was holding myself together with whiskey and denial. I didn't have my whiskey and denial was having a bad day.
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#74. I just meant touching me might feel uncomfortable. It's a little like chewing on tin foil. Feels unpleasant but isn't really a problem.
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#75. The biggest question she had was how do you rebuild a life when you aren't a person anymore?
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#76. I'm making friends. You wouldn't know anything about that.
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#77. The only thing that happens if you run from a predator is a good chase.
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