Erica Lindquist Quotes

#1. Retreat isn't the same thing as running away. They're spelled completely differently.

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#2. These raids didn't usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.

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#3. Death is just your body running out of ammunition. Slam in a fresh battery and keep fighting!

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#4. Thorn, Gardener, get it? More skeptical people tended to believe that the Thorn family simply named itself after their high position in the Gardeners. I had my own theory. I thought his name was Thorn because he's a giant prick.

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#5. Love is like nothing else. Without water, it will not wilt. Without food, it will not die. It will languor alone within, awaiting its chance to bloom. Sounds like a virus to me.

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#6. Thorn grunted and the metal control fell from his spasming fingers. It bounced across the dusty concrete and I stomped down as hard as I could. I felt more than heard the metallic crunch under my boot. Another irreplaceable artifact ruined, courtesy of Julia Reed.

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#7. Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to get through the day, to feed themselves and their family. No one ever did anything to make it better.

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#8. Life is only as precious as what we will die for.

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#9. One of these days, I would doubt the Gardeners a little too much and Zach was going to play handball with my head.

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#10. There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia," said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing.

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