Top 100 Josephine Angelini Quotes
#2. Love is being willing to become the villain so that the one you love can stay a hero.
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#3. Helen, beloved of the goddess of love, went downstairs to crawl into her empty bed as Lucas, the son of the sun, leaned back on his elbows and watched his father-god brighten the bare wooden planks of her widow's walk.
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#4. Hector, if you get yourself killed again, when I take over Hades I'll give you a really long time-out in Tartarus,
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#5. I've always thought that was the lamest argument - that we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of us to be grateful. All that really means is that someone has to suffer poverty so other people can feel better about themselves. What a selfish way to look at the world.
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#6. You don't feel dead to me."
"That's all that matters," he said, turning his head to look at her. Worry darkened his eyes. "I know this isn't possible. What did you do, Helen?"
"I made you a world.
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#8. Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?"
"You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic." He smiled at her
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#12. You saw me through a stained-glass window? How'd you pull that off'
'I could find someone as beautiful as you no matter where you hide. You're so radiant, I bet you even glow in the dark.
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#13. Lucas Delos," he said, holding out his hand.
"Don't you hate this kid?" Jerry asked Helen candidly as he shook the offered hand.
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#16. And then we'll each have to decide - each of us for ourselves - how far we're willing to go to stop her.
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#17. Hey Orion? Put some pants on, toss her over your shoulder, and carry her off like a man, for the love of Pete!
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#18. As Orion took a step closer, they wrapped their arms around each other in a miserable huddle.
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#19. All I know is that you cut off all of my hair and dyed it who-knows-what-color, and you used your pee to do it.
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#20. How do you know all this about me?" Helen sputtered. Claire sighed.
"After I pushed you off the roof ... " she began.
"After you WHAT?" Lucas yelled.
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#21. Will someone please tell me why you all call me 'Sparky'?" she burst out in frustration. "And if I get stabbed one more time tonight I'm going to lose it!" she added, rounding on Jason, who was sneaking up behind her holding a stapler.
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#22. You better kill me now, Lucas, because I'm not going to stay away from her. I can't.
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#24. I don't know why you're fighting it, Len. One, he's frigging gorgeous. Two, he's so frigging gorgeous you need to count it twice. Three, he saw you fall down and left practice to see if you were okay. That's, like, devotion.
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#26. She wasn't getting over him. In fact, she wanted Lucas even more now than she did weeks ago when she almost kissed him in his bed that first night after they fell.
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#28. Enough wars have been started over this face. My face. My curse - and my mother's curse, and her mother's curse, and so on all the way back to the first woman to ever wear this face. Helen of Troy.
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#29. She would have to leave the country, or at least Nantucket, because there was no way she could live down the fact that she had tried to strangle the hottest boy on the island.
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#30. An honest buck may not buy any more groceries than a dishonest one, but it'll always be worth more. Especially to me,
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#31. Because you, Your Chosen Oneness, can come and go down here as you please.
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#32. Hello, Lady Witch," he said, breaking into a brazen grin. "Sorry to see you're laid up again."
"Occupational hazard," Lily mumbled...
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#33. The humans who love us never last long. Scions are tragedy magnets. It's safer for them if we leave before the trouble starts." ~ Daphne
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#35. I could wait my whole life for you, and you'd still be in love with Lucas.
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#36. Helen hadn't realized how heavy the burden of hate had been until she was allowed to put it down.
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#37. Do you know what it means to be a survivor? It means that not only do you have to live through things, you have to live with them as well. The second part is much harder and sometimes it takes the rest of your life to learn how to do it. But at least you have the rest of your life ...
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#38. Didn't I tell you I love you?"
"Yes."
"I meant all of you. Even the weird bits.
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#39. But no matter where we go, I would still be a daughter of Zeus and you a son of Apollo.
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#40. She'd created her own hell, and now that she had learned to control her fear, she knew how to create her own paradise.
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#41. I was a little worried she might try to drag me off to hell and drain my essence at some point, but I figured that was still better than having Gretchen for a best friend.
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#43. She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn't feel like she had power over the most important thing of all - her own heart.
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#45. There was no "eventually", and Helen knew it. Even after she'd touched the water from the River Lethe and couldn't remember her own name, she'd still remembered Lucas. She'd never get over him. Lucas was it for her.
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#46. [ ... ]Since then it's been passed from mother to daughter, along with The Face."
"The Face?" Lucas asked.
"That Launched a Thousand Ships," Daphne said, repeating the title automatically. "It's our curse.
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#47. Clever girl, Lucas thought. I could strangle her right about now. [for Helen]
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#48. Also, it'd be kinda hard to be together if I was in prison."
"What are you talking about?" Helen asked, suddenly alarmed. "Why would you go to prison?"
"For killing the guy that took your virginity," he replied. "You I would forgive. But the guy? Dead man.
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#51. Haven't you learned yet? Someone has to be the villain so everyone else can stay alive.
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#52. It's almost as if we don't need to live our lives or feel our feelings at all, because someone already told us what the ending was going to be.
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#53. We should enjoy it while we have it and not ruin the moment worrying about losing it.
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#54. His gaze had such a positive impact on her that she felt unbalanced as soon as his eyes abandoned her.
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#55. Never say never," he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heavy mass to press her deep into the cocoon of her little girl bed. "The gods love to toy with people who use absolutes.
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#59. I never really have been, and I'm certain now that I never will be, and you know why? Because it's impossible for me to love anyone like I love you - and I really tried with Orion.
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#60. Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.
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#61. Did you sleep at all?"
"No." She heard him mumble something to himself and decided to cut him off before he could scold her again. "My butt did, though. Slept like a log all night."
"Well, obviously, your butt has more sense than you do.
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#62. If there were an infinite number of universes, did that mean that one of them had to be perfect? And if one of the was paradise, did that me that another one had to be hell?
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#63. Orion smiled and leaned back against the wall, letting his gaze drift down in thought. Helen stared at him for a few moments, just enjoying his company and the fact that he was there with her. No. Better than that. He was there for her.
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#64. Helen?' Lucas asked, his voice faint and breathy.
'Make sound. If alive,' he barley managed to say.
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#65. There comes a day when every girl loses the stars in her eyes. And then she can see clearly.
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#66. Even if it kills me, staying awake and seeing you ... is better than any dream.
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#67. Should Cassandra initiate us, Sibyl? Matt asked, his eyes narrowed like he was testing a dangerous theory that could blow up in his face.
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#68. But you have to admit it is human nature to only really appreciate something if you've worked for it, or if you know you can lose it. How are you going to make the inhabitants of your little heaven feel fulfilled if everything comes to them easily?
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#69. I think all those ancient prophecies are so full of poetic nonsense that half the time no one understands what they mean." ~ Helen
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#70. You'd claim me?" he asked, hopeful but cautious.
She nodded once. "Because I'd never set a monster like you loose in the world.
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#71. But don't I deserve to be someone's first choice for a change?' All his life, in every life he'd lived, Orion had been the runner-up to someone else.
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#72. Test." Hades' lovely mouth twisted bitterly around the word, as if he could read Helen's thoughts and agreed with her. "If life is a test, then who do you think grades it?"
"You?" she guessed.
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#74. [she] believes our experiences and our worlds make us. I believe our choices make our experiences and our worlds.
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#75. Perhaps it wasn't beating because it had broken clean through and stopped
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#77. But how could anyone be grateful for what they have if they didn't know what it was like not to have what they need?
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#78. I remember what I must do, even if it makes me the villain of my own story
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#79. A regular ray of sunshine, isn't he?" Orion said sarcastically, acting more like himself again. "Oh, and that's his 'happy face' by the way.
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#82. Funny how quickly the mind moves, but how slowly time does when you're in pain.
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#83. Beautiful," Andy breathed in awe as an iridescent butterfly tumbled past, just inches from her face.
"Definitely," Hector mumbled, staring at Andy and not the butterfly.
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#84. My whole life I've wondered what it feels like to be loved like that. To be loved more.
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#85. We've been over this a dozen times. Nothing's ever going to change the way I feel about you.
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#86. He looked at her like she was the big, blue sky, and he was watching it fall.
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#87. Lucas had no doubt Helen could erase his love for her, but he also knew he'd only fall in love with her again the next he laid eyes on her. There was no "moving on" for him. No matter what else Lucas did in his life, his love for Helen would always define him. He was the Lover.
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#88. It's not our talents that make us safe or dangerous, it's our choices.
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#90. Remember there's always a grain of truth in the prophecies, no matter how much poetry has been frosted on top." ~ Lucas to Helen
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#91. You certainly do heal fast. But you'll still have some impressive bruises, so if I were you I'd avoid your father for the rest of the night."
"I'll just tell him you abuse me," Helen said with a shrug. She jumped off the examining table.
"And I'll tell him you like it," he teased back.
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#92. This Descender was the princess he had been waiting for - the real Helen.
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#93. They'd shared more than memories the night before. What they'd experienced was a communion.
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#94. The last thing Helen thought before she drifted off after him was that she'd slept on a beach like this before with another boy. But this time there was no Helen-shaped dent for her to fit inside.
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#95. The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes.
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#96. I'm trying to do what's right, but I don't know if there is a such a thing as a right option anymore. Just different kids of wrong."
Breakfast narrowed his eyes at her. "Don't get too comfortable with that notion.
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#97. Bring Hector back to life, and I'll take your place in the Underworld for the rest of eternity.
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#98. He's not going around telling everyone you're monkey-butt crazy, so at least you brutalized a seriously sweet guy.
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#99. Bower City didn't do gloomy or rainy or sad. It didn't dirty its head with the ashes of mourning. It had one bright cheery note, and everyone was forced to sing it.
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