Top 100 Michelle Hodkin Quotes
#1. Why do you always look like you just rolled out of bed?'
'Because usually I have.' And the way he raised his eye-brow at me made me blush.
'Classy,' I said.
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#3. I wish we could make out in your bed."
Noah sighed. "As do I, but I'm afraid we have ritual burning to conduct."
"It's always something."
"Isn't it though?
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#5. Rape is about power, nt sex. It's about using force or the threat of it to take control over another person.
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#6. Words have power. And I may be privileged and have a higher IQ than any of our former teachers, but when people look at me? They see a black, male teenager. And there is nothing quite as frightening to some folks as an angry young black man.
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#7. Gather my leaves,
Twist them into crowns
Let me be the king of your forest
Climb on my branches,
I will seek out your hide
s you sleep beneath the shade
Of my giving tree
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#8. The palm trees on the median swayed and bent, threatening to snap. But they wouldn't. They were strong enough to take it.
And so was I.
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#9. How did you get my number?" I blurted, before I could stop myself.
"It's called research." I could hear him smirking over the phone.
"Or stalking."
Noah chuckled. "You're adorable when you're bitchy."
"You're not," I said, but smiled despite myself.
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#10. Lightning flickered through the windows that wouldn't release us and made monsters of our shadows against the wall.
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#11. Noah started this chase and I stood before him, waiting to be caught. He could have me, but he refused to move.
Only now did I realize why.
He wanted to be caught. He was waiting for me to chase him.
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#13. I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie's cheek.
"FUCK," he shouted, wiping it off. "What if you killed me!" He threw a Skittle at my face. It hit my forehead.
"Ow!"
"Taste the rainbow bitch.
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#14. But non of this matters, because you're not going to listen to your token black Jewish bi friend, are you?
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#15. What the hell were you doing with five thousand dollars on you?"
"Eight, actually. I had grand plans for today. Hookers and blow aren't cheap, but I suppose animal sacrifice will have to do. Happy birthday.
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#16. This is what I knew: I was trapped in my body, in that bed, at that moment. But even as I looked out through the windows of my eyes, through the bars of my prison, I knew I wouldn't be trapped forever.
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#17. While Daniel disappeared into his room, probably to limn the contours of some exquisite constellation of philosophical nonsense for his internship applications and gasp in the throes of his overachieving OCDness.
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#18. I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it.
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#19. I hate that I never managed to persuade you to watch Buffy. It's a flaw in you, Mara.
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#20. You could be seen but not loved, or loved and not seen.
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#21. Is there any point in asking what you're going to do to me?"
He grinned wickedly. "Not really."
Fabulous.
"Does it involve the use of a safe word?"
"That will depend entirely on you.
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#22. You could start a fire with the heat between you two."
"You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.
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#23. Time was supposed to heal all wounds, but how could it when Jude kept picking the scab?
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#24. Don't you mean 'assclown'?" he looked amused.
"No," I said louder this time. "I mean asscrown. The crown on top of the asshat that covers the asshole of the assclown. The very zenith in the hierarchy of asses.
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#25. Mara, if you're tired, I can hear it. If you're hurt, I can feel it. And if you lie, I will know it.
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#26. Noah recited his next title. The New Adventures of Curious
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#27. Scheide,'Noah said.
I decided to give the drink another shot. 'What does that mean?' I asked, then sipped.
'Vagina'
I almost choked, and covered my mouth with my hand.
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#28. If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.
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#29. I think Stella's a little scared of you," he said, while I changed for bed in the bathroom. "And you're not?" I called out. "Of you? You have the soul of a kitten." I popped my head out of the bathroom. "A kitten." "An assassin kitten.
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#30. Mara : I'm too selfish to leave you
Noah Shaw : I'm too selfish to let you
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#31. And then you show up with the voice from my nightmare, and you call me an asshole.
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#32. I would wait forever for the promise of seeing Mara, unleashed.
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#33. Her graphite pencil scratches the thick paper and it is the soundtrack to my bliss. That, and her sound - dissonant, aching. Her breath and heartbeat and pulse are my new favorite symphony; I'm beginning to learn which notes will play when, and to interpret them.
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#34. I wonder if it's possible to know someone through the words they love.
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#36. I feel like I'm going to catch hepatitis just standing here.
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#38. What's wrong?"
"Nothing."
"I don't believe you."
"I don't care.
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#41. Sometimes, Noah, I feel an overwhelming urge to punch you in the face.
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#42. I was changing into my shirt (and matching boxers! Wasn't I lucky?) in the tourist shop bathroom when a voice said, "You look retarded." I looked up at the mirror. My reflection looked ridiculous. "Yeah. Well. You don't look so hot yourself," I said back.
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#43. Stella turned to us. "One of us is going to have to swim it. Any volunteers?"
Jamie shook his head. "Not it. Sharks, first of all, and second of all, sharks"
- The Retribution of Mara Dyer
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#44. We are far too screwed up for a goddamned love triangle.
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#45. Don't. Don't ask me why. It's annoying. I want to. That's it. That's all. So let me.
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#48. Anna used to be the abstinence poster girl, but you could write a comic book about the many adventures of her vagina. It could wear a cape.
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#49. Why, Noah, do you know the word for vagina in every language?"
"Because I'm European, and therefore more cultured than you.
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#51. Don't tempt me. Now, what are you wearing?"
"A hoodie and drawstring pants too, I guess.""Anything underneath?"
"I don't typically walk around without underwear."
"Typically?"
"Only on special occasions."
"Christ. I meant under your hoodie
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#52. I was falling apart, and all my pieces were scattering to the wind.
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#53. Don't hurt them," I said to Jude, and I meant it. "Please."
"I didn't want to," he replied, and punched me in the face.
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#54. As I was saying. He could never use you. You own him. You should've seen the way he was looking at you while you were out."
I smiled a little. "How?"
"Like you're the ocean and he's desperate to drown.
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#55. Only narrowly avoided being elbowed in the face by a girl attired in what could only be described as "slutty Gryffindor" apparel. So wrong.
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#56. I'd hit that so hard whoever pulled me out would become the King of England.
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#57. Then the only way out is through, Jamie said, and Stella started the truck.
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#59. Before I could say anything, Jamie began writing giant letters over the words with his index finger.
F-U-C-K Y-O-U.
My sentiments exactly.
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#60. I looked up at the video camera and stared. Then raised my hand and gave it the middle finger.
"I thought you were going to give it the District Twelve salute," Jamie said.
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#63. We are responsible for everything we do and do not do.
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#64. Girly, I've been driving since before you were even a twinkle in your mother's eye.
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#65. Did I just see you litter?'
'I'm driving a hybrid. It cancels out.
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#67. If we had learned anything concrete by now, we had learned this: we weren't alone. There are other like us out there. People that think they're just strange or different or troubled or depressed or sick, They might just be. But they might also be something more. They could become one of us.
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#68. So, what are you doing with my little sister today?" Daniel asked. I closed my eyes in defeat.
"I'm afraid I can't ruin the surprise," Noah said. "But I promise I'll return her intact."
He did not just say that. Daniel cackled
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#69. Let me guess. A certain unkempt bastard with a panty-dropping smile?
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#70. Rows upon rows of books, lining built-in shelves that stretched from the floor to the ceiling.
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#71. Yes!" He wrapped both arms around me, but when I tried to do the same he jumped away. "Watch the suit," he said, glaring. Oh, boy.
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#72. Smoking was a bad habit, yes. But he looked so good doing it." - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
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#73. How are we supposed to get in?"
Stella kicked the metal shutter.
"Fool of a Took!" Jamie hissed through his teeth. "If someone's in there, they probably heard that.
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#74. And just like that, I was completely, utterly, and entirely,
His.
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#75. She was constantly surprising, infinitely complex. Unknowable. Unpredictable. I have never met anyone more fascinating in my life, and all the time in the world wouldn't be enough to ever know her.
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#76. You're supposed to say, 'All I want is your happiness. I'll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'"
"Sorry," Noah said. "I'm just not that big of a person.
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#77. There is no truth," Stephanie said mysterously. "Only perspectives.
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#78. Fuck, he murmured against my lips. The feel, the word, sent a hot little shock through my spine. It skittered through my veins, danced through every nerve.
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#79. And I would never give up. I've done terrible things I regret and terrible things I don't. But I don't need to be fixed. I don't need to be saved. I just have to keep going.
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#80. Um, I think your brother might be waving at you. That, or trying to guide a plane to safety.
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#81. You will have to fight every day because there is so much injustice and horror to fight against.
But if you don't fight, you will grow lazy and discontent under the guise of wanting peace.
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#82. I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.
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#83. Noah stood slowly, his body skimming mine as he rose. "Today. Tonight. Tomorrow. Forever." Noah's eyes held mind. his stare was infinite. "I was made for you, Mara.
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#84. This is a love story. Twisted and messy. Flawed and screwed up. But it's ours. It's us. I don't know how our story will end. but I know it will start. I pick up my pen and begin to write:
My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something.
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#86. But you know what their real problem with me was? I never wanted to be one of them. That's what bothers bullies the most.
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#87. He looked down at me, all sincere and open and with that chaos hair in his eyes and I wanted and didn't want and I had to say something.
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#89. So." Noah said carefully. I was sitting up cross-legged and tangled in my sheets.
"So." I said back
"Would you like to hear about Curious George's new adventures?"
I shook my head.
"Are you sure?" Noah asked. "He's been such a naughty monkey."
"Pass.
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#90. The closer anyone gets to you, the more at risk they are of falling under your shadow, or being consumed by your flame.
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#91. Rubbish. The Taj Mahal is only a hundred eighty-six square feet. This house has twenty-five thousand."
I stared at him blankly.
"I was kidding," he said.
I stared at him blankly.
"All right, I wasn't kidding. Let's go, shall we.?"
"After you, my liege.
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#92. That's what separated us from the multitudes of Them. We lived harder. Knew better. But we laughed anyway. Laughed because there was nothing else to do but give up.
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#93. Put a petty criminal in maximum security prison and he'll come out knowing how to rape and pillage.
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#94. Have you made any other friends since we've been here?"
I gave him the death stare. "Yes, actually."
"Who? I want a name."
"Jamie Roth."
"The Ebola kid? I heard he's a little unstable."
"That was one incident.
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#95. So where were you?"
"Oh, hookers, blow, the usual."
"Why do I even love you?
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#97. You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.
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#98. You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow.
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#99. If she watched me any closer, she'd turn into the Eye of Sauron
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#100. I know how you love endings, so I will write one for you.
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