Top 100 Nora Sakavic Quotes
#2. Death was unpleasant, but it was a familiar and tolerable ache in his chest.
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#3. Scarred was better than dead, so Neil figured he'd get over the stares eventually.
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#4. If you have to keep asking - I'll answer it as many times as you ask. But this is always going to be yes."
"Don't 'always' me.
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#5. Kevin dragged his stare back to Wymack's face and said, "and my father comes to all of my games. That is enough." On
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#6. Neil had never seen him play like this, so intense and fast and determined, but Andrew had promises to keep and a goal to defend. With
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#7. Neil wanted to tell them death was no reason to hold back, but he found their humanity interesting.
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#8. Neil worried for a moment what they'd do with Andrew's rude brand of teamwork at their backs, but the next time he got a good look at Matt, Matt was grinning like this was the most fun he'd had in years. It
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#9. They were different kinds of heartless and Neil, for all his problems connecting with other people, didn't want to be a monster.
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#10. Whether Neil left today or tomorrow or next week, he'd leave alone. Two, five, ten years from now, if Neil was even still alive, he'd still be alone. He could be anyone, anywhere in the world, but he'd be alone until the day he died. He'd never trust anyone enough to let them in.
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#11. This," Neil flicked his finger to indicate the two of them, "isn't worthless."
"There is no 'this'. This is nothing."
"And I am nothing," Neil prompted. When Andrew gestured confirmation, Neil said, "And as you've always said, you want nothing."
Andrew stared stone-faced back at him.
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#12. Everything I needed, you already gave me. You let me stay.
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#13. He ran until he couldn't breathe, but he never stopped hurting.
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#14. But Neil Josten was a Fox. Andrew called his home; Nicky called him family. Neil wasn't going to lose any of it.
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#15. Honesty suited Andrew because he was an instigator at heart and his opinions were often unpopular.
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#16. When you know what someone wants, it's easy to manipulate them.
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#17. He dreamed of facing his father on an Exy court, and in his dream the Foxes won.
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#18. You couldn't at least use an Exy idiom? I hate baseball.
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#20. When I'm playing, I feel like I have control over something. I feel like I have the power to change things. I feel more real out there than I do anywhere else. The court doesn't care what my name is or where I come from or where I'll be tomorrow. It lets me exist.
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#21. I am a bad person trying very hard to be a good person.
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#22. Betsy Dobson was the last to walk in. Andrew hadn't saved a ticket for her, so Neil assumed Wymack and Abby had invited her. Andrew didn't seem at all surprised to see her but went to her as soon as she was settled.
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#23. It's always been 'go'. It's always been 'lie' and 'hide' and 'disappear'. I've never belonged anywhere or had the right to call anything my own. But Coach gave me keys to the court, and you told me to stay. You gave me a key and called it home. I haven't had a home since my parents died.
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#24. For the first time Neil appreciated Andrew's apathy. In a stadium gone mad and with too much on the line tonight, Neil finally saw Andrew as the crucial eye of the storm. Because Andrew refused to get caught up in this, he was the only person on the court with a cool head.
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#25. Ninety percent of the time the very sight of you makes me want to commit murder. I think about carving the skin from your body and hanging it out as a warning to every other fool who thinks he can stand in my way."
"What about the other ten?
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#26. With that, Andrew caught Neil's face in his hands and leaned in.
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#27. It's about second chances, Neil. Second, third, fourth, whatever, as long as you get at least one more than what anyone else wanted to give you.
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#28. I won't lie and say I didn't think about it, but I decided to stay. I trusted you more than I was scared
of him. So trust me now if you can. I'm not going anywhere. I'll take care of Kevin until you return.
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#29. Andrew had nearly killed four men for assaulting Nicky and would have broken Allison's neck for hitting Aaron, but when it came to crimes against his own person Andrew couldn't care less. He held his life in less regard than he did anything else. Neil hated that with a ferocity that was nauseating.
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#30. Thank you," he finally said. He couldn't say he meant thanks for all of it: the keys, the trust, the honesty and the kisses. Hopefully Andrew would figure it out eventually. "You were amazing.
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#31. The next time I come for you, you will follow me," Kevin said. "Why?" Neil asked. "It's time to collect what's mine," Kevin said.
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#32. This is my reassured face," Neil said, pointing up at his blank expression.
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#33. Then it's time to stop being the worst," Wymack said. "It's time to fly.
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#34. She was breathing, but she was lifeless, a marionette whose strings had been cut. Neil
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#37. Anytime the Foxes mentioned Andrew's upcoming sobriety or Andrew's name popped up in write-ups on the team's performance at games, the focus was on what a danger he was. People talked about his trial and how it saved them from Andrew. No one said what they were doing to save Andrew from himself.
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#38. Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?"
Andrew gazed at him in silence for a minute. "I did.
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#40. Kevin's not allowed to drive your car but Renee is?" Neil asked. "It's fun telling Kevin no," Andrew said with a wicked grin.
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#42. Neil feigned confusion as he got to his feet. "Am I bothering you?" "Beyond the telling." "Interesting," Neil said. "Last week you said nothing gets under your skin." Andrew
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#43. Your parents are dead, you are not fine, and nothing is going to be okay. This is not news to you. But from now until May you are still Neil Josten and I am still the man who said he would keep you alive.
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#44. It's hard to kill a man when everyone's eyes are on him. Make them love you, make them hate you. I don't care. Just make them look at you.
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#45. I don't want to be a Raven. I don't want to be Nathaniel. I want to be Neil Josten. I want to be a Fox.
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#47. His smile was small and fierce as he leaned forward into Neil's space. "Remember this feeling. This is the moment you stop being the rabbit." Neil
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#48. He was their family. They were his. They were worth every cut and bruise and scream.
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#49. Damn it all to hell. Hemmick! You were supposed to wake them up ten miles ago." "I don't want to die," Nicky said. Dan
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#50. Riko's smile could have frozen hell. "I'm not scared of Kevin. I know him."
"You're going to eat those words," Neil said. "You're going to choke on them.
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#51. It's not really about the food. It's about family. Not necessarily the one we were born with, but the one we chose. This one," Nicky emphasized, gesturing between them. "The people we trust to be part of our lives. The people we care about.
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#52. Thanks, but I can handle him," Neil said.
"We noticed," Dan said dryly.
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#53. I won't be like them. I won't let you let me be.
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#54. Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil apart. Neil finally understood why his mother thought this was so dangerous.
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#55. Do girls need kid-glove treatment? I thought they were tougher than that."
Dan's grin was approving. "Most of us are. Some of us are like boys, though, and have delicate egos.
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#56. I want - I know I shouldn't stay, but I can't - I don't want to lose this. I don't want to lose any of you. I don't want to be Nathaniel anymore. I want to be Neil for as long as I can." "Good," Wymack said. "I'd have a hell of a time fitting 'Wesninski' on a jersey." Browning
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#57. Four of Dan's sisters had made it. They wore white sundresses they'd altered so three spelled out FOX. The fourth sported a fox paw that was already starting to lose a toe pad. They practically crushed Dan, smothering her with a group hug before fawning over her.
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#58. Neil had spent his entire life drifting by on the outskirts, looked over and looked past. It'd made him happy, or so he'd thought, because being ignored meant he was safe. He hadn't realized how lonely he was until he met the Foxes.
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#60. Family means something different with us because it has to. It's not about blood. It's not even about who we like. It's about who Andrew's willing to protect.
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#61. Revenge is a motivator only for the weak-willed.
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#62. You have a problem wherein you only invest your time and energy into worthless pursuits."
"This isn't worthless."
"There is no 'this'. This is nothing."
"And I am nothing. And as you've always said, you want nothing.
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#63. They'd been apart for seven weeks but Neil keenly remembered why he'd stayed. He remembered this unyielding, unquestioning weight that could hold him and all of his problems up without breaking a sweat.
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#64. It's fine, Coach," Andrew said, catching up to them. He touched Neil's back on his way by, fingers light enough to give Neil goose bumps, but didn't slow on his way to Kevin's side.
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#65. Trying to remember fear, or trying to remember how to feel anything at all?
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#66. University, he said quietly. It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.
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#68. You are a Fox," Andrew said, like it was that simple, and maybe it was. Nathaniel
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#69. This was everything he wanted, everything he needed, and Neil was never letting go.
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#70. Neil sucked in a deep breath that ripped him open on its way down. "I'd ask you how it feels, but I guess you've always known what it's like to be second, you worthless piece of shit.
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#71. Exy was a bastard sport, an evolved sort of lacrosse on a soccer-sized court with the violence of ice hockey, and Neil loved every part of it.
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#72. I'd rather find out exactly why and when you two hooked up than think about this awfulness any longer, so let's talk about that on the ride back instead." Aaron's
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#73. It's not the world that's cruel," Neil said. "It's the people in it.
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#74. You are a Fox. You are always going to be nothing.
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#75. The buzzer went off again, and Neil's heart stopped. The ringing in his ears wasn't all him. His teammates were screaming, wordless war cries of disbelief and victory.
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#77. His thoughts should have kept him up all night, but with his friends this close Neil couldn't worry about anything.
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#78. The Foxhole Court was the only home he needed; he Foxes were his family.
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#79. I'm not a math problem." "But I'll still solve you." Neil
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#80. It went against everything Neil knew to give in, but he'd chosen this path. He'd chosen Andrew.
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#81. There were twenty-one thousand people enrolled at Palmetto State University. Neil wasn't playing for himself anymore; he was playing to represent them.
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#82. I hate you," Andrew said casually. He took a last long drag from his cigarette and flicked it off the roof. "You were supposed to be a side effect of the drugs."
"I'm not a hallucination," Neil said, nonplussed.
"You are a pipe dream," Andrew said.
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#83. Andrew was smiling, but Neil knew his cheer didn't mean he was going to play nice. He'd been smiling when he smashed a racquet into Neil's stomach, too. Nicholas
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#84. At the Foxhole Court "family" was a fantasy invented to make books and Hollywood movies more interesting.
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#85. You can't cut down someone who's already in the gutter.
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#86. You wouldn't trust me to pick out your costume, would you? I'd probably make you a French maid or something. Come on.
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#87. My name is Nathaniel Wesninski," he said, "and my father is dead." It wasn't at all funny, but a second later he was laughing. It sounded hysterical but he couldn't stop.
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#88. He'd come to the Foxhole Court every inch a lie, but his friends made him into someone real.
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#89. It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation. He
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#90. Enlighten us. If the first step isn't tolerance, where does a pair of bigots begin in fixing a mess like this?
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#91. Did you have any plans to do anything?" Matt finally thought to ask Neil. "Besides the obvious, I mean." Neil wasn't sure if Matt meant Exy or Andrew.
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#92. Remember this feeling. This is the moment you stop being the rabbit.
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#93. Neil started for the door, but Kevin put a hand on his shoulder to stop him. "Neil."
There was a world of regret in that name, but it was a promise, too.
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#94. I'm sorry."
"Say it again and I will kill you.
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#95. Andrew looked as he always had, and Neil knew his face as well as he knew every iteration of his own. Despite that, something seemed different.
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#96. Andrew dug a finger in Neil's cheek and forcibly turned his head away. "Don't look at me like that. I am not your answer, and you sure as fuck aren't mine.
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#97. I've been a problem for nineteen years. I'm too tired to be one tonight. Just get me out of here." An
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#98. Sometimes I think this job is going to kill me," Abby said. "Seeing what people have done, what people continue to do, to my Foxes. I wish I could protect you, but I'm always too late. All I can do is patch you up afterward and hope for the best. I'm sorry, Neil. We should have been there for you.
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#99. It's not the world that's cruel. It's the people in it.
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#100. Time was nothing. Seconds were days, were years, were the breaths that caught between their mouths and the bite of Neil's fingernails against his palms, the scrape of teeth against his lower lip and the warm slide of a tongue against his.
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