Top 55 Nova Ren Suma Quotes
#1. They forgot who she was:
Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love.
Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.
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#2. We kept forgetting. And we also couldn't let go.
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#3. I could see her smile. I wished I hadn't because it was the kind of smile she never gave to me. It was a smile for a boy who wanted to know her and never would. A smile for a girl who wanted to be like her and never could be. A smile for a perfect stranger.
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#4. It was Ruby's favorite kind of story: where the boys lost and the girls won and got a souvenir in the bargain.
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#5. Here was the moment to drop some wisdom from my three years, one month, and fifteen days of being incarcerated at Aurora Hills, but I kept it back.
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#6. There are no mourners here. No tourists. No rubberneckers. No one to sideswipe Tommy's car.
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#7. I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn't mean they were the good ones.
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#8. Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.
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#9. But then the stage showed other things. Bad things. Murderous things. Things I would never really do. And things I would forget about in the morning, because I'd wake up feeling a whole lot better. I knew right from wrong, Ori and I both did. We were not terrible people. We were not fools.
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#10. Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.
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#11. I wonder who drove all the way up here to leave this piece of hate mail for the dead.
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#12. In reality I was a pencil drawing of a photocopy of a Polaroid of my sister- you could see the resemblance in a certain light if you were seeking it out because I told you first if you were being nice.
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#13. Ori made it wanted. She acted like it was lucky. And forever after, it was.
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#14. To fit in somewhere in the world, even if there were chains and gates and fences to keep us from running.
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#15. We were gasoline rushing for a lit match. We bared our teeth. Balled fists.
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#16. Home is where the heart is, and where the hell is, and where the hate is, and where the hopelessness is. Which made Aurora Hills pretty much like home.
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#17. Probably she died. Consumption. Fever. Mountain lion. I don't know.
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#18. He doesn't ask Sarabeth, he doesn't ask Tommy. The person he's asking is me.
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#19. It was hoped we might have two lives - the way cats are said to have nine. This life we ruined, and another, for after.
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#20. I wondered how they could know so much about my brain without lifting open my skull and poking through it.
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#21. The ghosts tonight have already told their stories.
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#22. [C]ouches and chairs covered in scratches aim away from one another, making it possible for a dozen people to sit in this room at once and not have to talk to one other person, which is a miracle in furniture arrangement.
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#23. This is how I know blood is meaningless family connections are a lot like old gum -you don't have to keep chewing. You can always spit it out and stick it under the table. You can walk away.
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#24. But no, it's not the Ori I knew. It's an Ori I never knew. The Ori I made her into.
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#25. The other two weren't even dancers. They were football players. Which was ridiculous.
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#26. Everything I know about bombs tells me they are built to explode. But something must set them off first. There must be a trigger before the noise goes off, before the big burst of bright, choking smoke. Otherwise a girl could stay quiet for years.
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#27. Sure. I would go. Balloon or bus or thumb out onthe highway
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#28. What I mean is, it reminded me of one of the happiest moments of childhood, before broken wrists and purpling bruises and nasty names hissed when my mother's back was turned. Before Who do you think you are? You're ugly. You're nobody.
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#29. This is called closure, and it's also called justice, and they are not always the same thing.
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#30. Some of us had been running all our lives. We ran because we could and because we could not. We ran for our lives. We still thought they were worth running for.
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#31. But no one fought for Orianna Catherine Speerling.
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#32. My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and
of course
heart. This is an extraordinary debut by a striking new voice in YA fiction that left me in awe and moved beyond measure. Not to be missed.
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#33. There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.
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#34. I was looking back into memories I didn't own, wanting in.
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#35. Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning.
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#36. Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.
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#38. We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.
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#39. Teenage girls know more than we're given credit for. We sense danger even when everyone's telling us it's fine, he's a perfectly nice man, an upstanding member of our community, have you tasted his sugar-cream pie?
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#40. I stared down the wall, which did not stare back at me. I wouldn't let her rattle me. The cart barely had any books on it, and the ones there were just tossed on, upside down, disorganized. It hurt to look.
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#41. She smelled of deep, dark things and untold secrets and all of what she was keeping from me.
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#42. I sat there in the boat under her stars and her moon gated on all sides by the mountains watching the last bits of her breath float up and away.
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#43. Ruby's stories didn't have morals. They meant one thing in the light and one thing in the dark and another thing entirely when she was wearing sunglasses.
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#45. Laughing (they thought we were laughing at them). Walking fast (they thought we were running).
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#46. But when I asked where the extra doors led,Ruby smiled and said sometimes you need more than oneway to reach the outside ...
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#47. Balance, Chlo ... Give and take. Push and pull. You for her, her for you. I think they're mad that I tried to have it both ways to keep you alive and her, too.
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#48. Sometimes it could be the smallest thing that could topple over a whole life, and, in the end, destroy it.
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#49. Ruby told me it didn't matter what a boy was thinking about you so long as you had a good hold on what you were thinking about him.
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#50. The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.
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#51. When writing fiction, memories still filter in, and these memories twist and distort and transform until they become living, breathing pieces of the story, as they have here.
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#52. The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way
only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there.
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#53. The last time I saw my mother, she'd turned her back on me like I was the bullet.
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#54. There was something to be said for the bodiless feeling that came after the cold. Something I would always remember. When you forget how bad it hurts, you feel so free.
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