Top 48 Ilsa J. Bick Quotes
#1. The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?
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#2. Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
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#3. Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.
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#4. It was, come to think of it, a little like a kinder, gentler Psycho-Dad making one of his command decisions. Exactly the same, only without all the fuss and blood.
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#5. But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.
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#6. I didn't throw the paper away.
Maybe I should have.
Oh, the things you know in retrospect.
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#7. What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.
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#8. Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you
don't because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn't look like drowning and some
people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.
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#9. We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.
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#10. I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and remembered nightmares.
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#11. Desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.
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#12. No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.
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#13. Raccoon." She saw Ellie put a hand to her mouth to cover the giggles and then looked back at Tom. "Like, you caught it?"
"Well, it sure didn't get Fed-Exed [ ... ]
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#15. So I think I'll stay here a little while longer. There's plenty of time to get off this gurney and open that door and rejoin the rest of you.
There's all the time I have left on Earth.
There's the rest of my life.
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#17. What about study hall? Shouldn't I go to the library?
"What for, Ms. Lord?" Mr. anderson said. "You're with me
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#18. They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
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#19. We were like matching bookends, almost touching but with volumes between us and stories, so many stories.
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#20. The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.
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#21. It was that stages-of-anger thing. I was shocked and then I got pissed and then I fought like hell ... and then I went numb. They called it acceptance, but it wasn't. It's what happens when you have only two choices: live with the monster, or kill yourself.
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#22. She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.
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#23. Run, she told herself. Run, you idiot, run.
But she didn't. She couldn't. She just ... couldn't.
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#24. The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.
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#25. Neither was evil. They were both true to who they are.
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#26. How people react is going to be based on how you react.
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#27. She said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.
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#28. I doubted I would need my eyes. I drew in the dark, after all.
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#30. You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.
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#31. As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?"
"Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.
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#32. So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth.
Right, like the two are the same thing.
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#33. This Army of Light was mine. I had summoned it. I had DRAWN it.
Could I have stopped it? I don't know.
The truth is, I didn't want to.
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#34. I gargled a laugh, but I'd never felt more like crying in my life. I'm fine.
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#35. Those brain-zapped kids weren't the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.
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#36. What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.
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#37. This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.
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#38. Not everyone wears their scars on their skin.
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#39. Don't get so caught up in looking behind you forget to look ahead.
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#40. Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone
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#41. I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.
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#42. She'd drawn the moment of her death.
No. NO. She'd DRAWN herself to death.
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#43. Dewerman was this bearded 1960's throwback: a Teletubby in tie-dye, suspenders, and thinning hair scraped back into a stringy gray rat.
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#44. You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.
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#45. I don't know what I expected.
No, I'm lying. I know what I wanted.
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#46. Tell yourself you're dead, the way Matt does, so the past can't hurt you.
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#47. Thinking about all that was exhausting. Despite the hours I'd spent getting shrink-wrapped, I still wasn't sold that talking did a whole heck of a lot except let everyone else know what was going on inside your head. It's not like talking ever made anything go away.
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#48. My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.
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