Top 97 Sophie Jordan Quotes
#1. He would be damned if he fell prey to love's debilitating thrall.
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#2. I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish.
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#3. He feels it, too. His eyes widen. A lovely hazel. Green with flecks of brown and gold. The colors I love. The colors of the earth.
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#4. He turns slightly ... and smiles. Just a small smile, but lovely. Sexy.
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#6. Jacinda,
Sorry, but I had to leave town for a farm thing. Try not to knock any other teachers unconscious while I'm gone.
See you soon (but not soon enough),
Will
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#7. You want to go out?" he asks suddenly.
I blink. "As in a date?"
"Yes. That's what a guy usually means when he asks that question.
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#8. The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
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#9. We're just doing our best to live in this world, Davy." Sean's voice stretches into the fading dark. "We're not perfect, but we're not monsters, either. We're just human.
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#10. It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hands drag over each other, reacquainting, remembering, almost as if we're both verifying the other one is real flesh and blood.
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#11. No longer do I fear. No longer do I let others define me. I know what I am. What I'm capable of. That I'm a girl ... a woman who will fight to survive.
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#13. Sudden conviction races through me, almost terrifying in its total certainty. I can't give him up. He's the other part of me. He gets what it feels like to be separate from everything and everyone, to reject the path others lay out for you. We're the same. Two sides to the same coin.
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#15. It's easier for parents to ignore, to pretend that everything's great and then do whatever they want while convinced it's something you want, too.
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#16. That's what I wanted. Something to enrich me, to make me feel better about the things in my life that I could never change." - Page 56
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#17. I want you," he said starkly, the barest quiver in his hoarse voice. "Me and you. Together." He drew in a deep breath, his broad chest lifting. "But I can't chase you forever.
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#18. Shaw took my hand, his fingers lacing with mine. "Happy?" he asked.
I smiled, my chest swelling with emotion. "More than I ever thought possible."
He kissed me, murmuring against my lips, "Get used to it. This is only the beginning.
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#19. Exactly what he wanted me to do. Exactly what they all thought I would do. Everyone in here. Everyone out there in the world. A world so afraid of carriers, it makes killers out of the innocent.
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#20. I wish for adventure.
I wish to matter.
I wish for a home.
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#21. No one to trust. No friends. A life of silence broken only with music.
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#22. Some of us are killers. It's in our blood ... that ability. It doesn't mean we walk around killing withour conscience, but we're just ... better equipped to do it. Some people don't have it in them, but we do. You'll feel a lot better once you accept that.
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#23. Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We're long overdue.
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#24. Her heart was broken, but it had not stopped beating.
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#25. You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find
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#26. Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do ... not who you are, not who you want to be.
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#27. We can't stop loving and caring about others just because it hurts when we lose them.
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#28. He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what I can do after all.
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#29. The one voice I would hear even in death. A rotting corpse in the ground, I would sit up and take notice.
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#30. I simply do not subscribe to the hypocrisy of sitting in a church surrounded by an overprivileged Society that sings alleluias on Sunday and practices hedonism the rest of the week.
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#31. After running for my life from hunters, a girl with too much lip gloss doesn't register on my fear radar.
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#32. His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.
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#33. He steps onto the sidewalk and rocks on the balls of his feet. He looks beautiful standing there, and a familiar ache starts in my chest as I wonder how I can love and fear the sight of someone with the same intensity.
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#34. Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.
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#35. All my life people have called me gifted. Extraordinary. Blessed. I had all these dreams to become something. Someone. No one ever said I couldn't. No one ever said Killer.
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#36. A heart of stone could never break. But it could feel fear.
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#37. I will never see him again. Never know why he let me go. Never learn if he really whispered what I think he did. Beautiful.
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#38. The world was a merciless place. Hard and cruel. Except when you found someone to trust and love. Life, however fleeting, possessed meaning then.
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#39. Why do you care? I've ignored you for days."
His smile fades. He looks serious, mockingly so. "Yeah. You got to stop that.
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#40. I'll find you. I will. We'll be together again.
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#41. I won't let him retreat from me. We've come too far. I'll fight for us even if it's him I have to fight.
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#42. In this, with him ... I'm as close to the sky as I've ever been.
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#43. Miguel: We've only gone over 100x! Mika: K - gonna roc!! Billy: Glad ur babysitting, dumbass. U know how 2 shoot, right? Mika: Screw u! Kevin: Cut the crap - stay focused treat us like animals we'll show them animals Mika: Hear that! Miguel: Payback a bitch!
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#45. I once saw a show about an amputee who lost his leg and still feels it. He actually wakes up at night to scratch his leg as if it's still there, attached to him. They call it a phantom limb.
I would be like that. A phantom draki, tormented with the memory of what I once was.
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#46. Just because we are carriers doesn't mean that we have to live without conscience. The minute we forget that, the minute it's every man for himself ... then all is lost. We've become the monsters they say we are.
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#48. The water is still and smooth. Polished glass. Not a ripple of wind disturbs the dark surface. Low-rising mist drifts off liquid mountains floating against a purple-bruised sky. An eager breath shudders past my lips. Soon the sun will break.
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#49. Love brought out the worst in people, gave them free license to abuse each other.
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#50. Don't stay away from me anymore."
I stop myself, just barely, from telling him I won't. I can't promise that. Can't lie.
He opens his eyes. Stares starkly, bleakly. "I need you.
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#51. I wouldn't have waited this long for you. I would have already showed up at your dorm the minute I decided I wanted you. I wouldn't leave until I convinced you that you were mine
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#52. Where did you sleep?"
His mouth curled in a cocky grin at this question. "Where do you think?"
...
He turned his attention back to the wood and answered his own question, sounding a little bored all of a sudden. "On the couch.
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#53. Things happen. Things that you think you'll never get over. But you do. You move on. It gets better with time. You forget. Forgive. Whatever. Life goes on and you go on with it.
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#54. You are the worst kind of liar. You justify your actions. If you see a need, your arrogance precludes you from ever considering that there may be an alternative aside from your scheming and manipulations.
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#55. I shrug like I don't care ... Like every fiber of my being isn't weeping in need for him
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#57. I wait for him to announce my presence, holding his gaze, refusing to look away, determined that this beautiful boy see the face he sentences to death with this next words.
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#58. For some reason I hesitate to tell him where I live. I don't want to come across as the spoiled little rich girl that's fallen low. Even if I am.
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#59. You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. But you can put your arms around me anyway.
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#60. Oh. Yeah? Then do me a favor and explain it to me. Why is Hunter so important? Why does it gotta be him? 'Cause that's what this is about, right? You fuck me but you still want to be with him.
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#61. Jacinda nearly manifested at school today, Tamra tattles in that singsong voice of whiny kids everywhere. It reminds me of when I would take her dolls and give them haircuts.
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#62. What question?" I ask, breathless.
"Whether you're as beautiful in the morning as you are during the rest of the day.
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#63. Character is what you do when no one's looking.
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#64. I thought you were gone, Pepper. It was bad enough to lose you the first time, but to lose you like that? I couldn't have dealt with that.
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#65. Cassian looks at me intently, his eyes more black than purple right then. The purple only shows itself when he's feeling emotion. A rarity it seems.
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#66. I only know that I can't live without flight. Without sky and moist, breathing earth.
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#67. That's just ridiculous, I breathed, awe and lust swirling through me like some heady elixir.
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#68. You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first.
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#69. Leaning down, he whispers for my ears alone. Prove them wrong.
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#70. I stare into his eyes, I shake my head, sorry for the chance we lost. The chance we maybe never had. But not for saving him. I would do that again, no matter the cost.
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#71. I would have seen him. I know this deep in my gut where muscle meets bone and wraps tight. I wouldn't have been able to not look at him. And if I'd ever heard his voice, if he ever sang? I don't know if I could have stayed away. Good girl or not.
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#72. I touch his cheek, see my hand shake, and quickly pull it
back. He grabs my wrist, places my palm back against his
cheek, and closes his eyes like he's in agony. Or bliss. Or
maybe both. Like he's never been touched before.
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#73. Cassian's not a bad sort. He's not ... quite like his father."
Not quite. I pull back, certain my mother has been snatched by aliens. "Are you serious?
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#74. Feeling his heart, it occurs to me that it beats just like everyone else's. Like mine.
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#75. I'm not going to lie to you and convince you that I'm someone good and shiny like your guy that's going to be a doctor.
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#76. Hall nestled, stretched out like a sleeping beast.
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#77. Never forget that we are more than the genetic code. We can be more than labels applied to us. We can be more than what others whisper behind our backs. Free will exists. We need to choose to be the best we can be and we need to help others do the same. Believe in yourself.
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#78. Jacinda, join us. We're grilling on the back deck."
"Dad, I don't think-"
"I would love that," I lie. Eating with Will's dad ranks right up there with having my teeth drilled, but I have to get inside.
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#80. Hope is all there is. All we have. And love. Or what's the point of any of it?
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#81. She was ... is beautiful. Like her mother. Like you." He touched me then, pressing one finger directly over my heart. "You have it in here." He coughed violently, his hand dropping away from me. "It's a beauty that nothing can take away. Not this world or its monsters.
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#82. Hi," I return, gesturing to the fish. "Nice catch."
"Yeah. I'm kind of impressed with myself. I always thought redheads were sexy."
"Ha-ha. I meant the fish."
"Ah. Yes.
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#83. People wait their whole lives for this. Sometimes half their lives pass before they find it. Sometimes they never do. They settle for something else. Or nothing at all. But we found each other now, Georgia. Do you know how lucky that makes us?
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#84. This is the best thing I've ever eaten." He pauses for a drink, staring at me over the rim of his glass of juice.
" It's the provolone," I say, swallowing my last bite.
"It's the chef.
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#85. I like your sister. A lot."
I look at him dumbly.
He looks at me, lowers his voice to say, "I like you.
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#86. He couldn't live without being a draki, and I couldn't live without him.
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#88. Soft hearts bled, and in their pain they caused grief and havoc.
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#89. Let's go. I don't want to keep you from the things you have to do ... like plan the next crime wave with your biker gang."
"Sure. And you don't want to miss your nail appointment."
I cocked my head. "That's tomorrow.
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#90. Run from me, Grier Hadley, and I'll follow. I'll track you down and find you.
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#92. He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.
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#93. I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.
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#94. - ... And you keep them all locked in? These visiting carriers?
- They're always watched
- But not locked in? The honor is specific to me?
- You did try to brain me.
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#95. Rage
that old familiar friend that got him through the hardest of times.
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#96. Life is full of regrets. They'll cripple you if you let them.
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#97. Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him.
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