Top 95 Brodi Ashton Quotes
#1. " it's the Fiery Furnace."
They just looked at me as if I said "It's a puppy driving a tractor.
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#2. You're not bringing guitar?" I said. I barely saw him without it.
Max and Cole both looked at me with alarmed expressions.
"No," Cole said. "I don't want to die.
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#3. If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there.I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki
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#4. Recognizing beauty isn't optimism. It's living with your eyes open.
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#5. The question I should've been asking myself was, in ninety-nine years, how will I find another Forfeit who will survive the Feed? But the question I actually asked myself was, Could Nikki ever look at me the way she looked at Jack in those final moments?
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#6. If you stand off to the side, all mopey and such, without a date, you'll stick out like a nun at a strip club.
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#7. In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.
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#8. You don't really believe there's a good way to say good-bye forever, do you?
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#9. If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.
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#10. I waited for you."
"But it's a race. Why did you wait for me?"
"I always wait for you. I'm always waiting for you.
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#12. What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands?
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#13. I come here for supplies.The cashier doesn't notice things.
Great.She just admitted she's a shoplifter.
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#14. Good. While you're playing nurse to Cole, tell us another story about Jack. We need to get your tether back.
...
'What should I talk about?'
Cole looked at me with a suddenly hopeful face.
' Was there ever a time when he didn't resemble a white knight? That would be great about now
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#15. I was asking Cole to risk his life, again and again, for the boy I loved. And it wasn't him.
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#16. Great. There was no scenario in this whole damn thing where Jack didn't come off looking as awesome as the love child of Thor and Optimus Prime.
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#17. Her emotional layers had the depth of a full symphony.
All I wanted was the bathe in her harmony.
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#18. I shouldn't have come," I said.
"Of course you should've. Otherwise I'd be fending off advances from Mrs. Stone.
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#19. I crouched down beside her bed and lightly touched her forehead. Dont' worry, Nik. I'll never let you go. Never.
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#20. We'd pluck the spiky chestnuts, leaving their green outer shells intact, and throw them at the neighbor boys.
I always took particular care in aiming for Jack's head. He told me later that he rode his bike by my house on purpose. I asked him if he liked pain.
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#21. I know that look. It comes in the quiet moments, like this one. I know you're thinking that this is all your fault and that I would be better off without you. But here's the thing you need to understand. You are my peace and my home. You are the everything. The pain isn't real. The hearts are.
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#22. I trusted you," my voice shaky with anger and exhaustion.
"I know," Cole said simply. "And now I have all of eternity to earn your forgiveness.
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#23. Nik. All you need to do is wear this tonight, and we'll sell out."
I glanced down at the shirt and then back up at Cole.
"Yeah, I'm sure this is the look you were going for."
"You can make anything look good," he said softly.
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#24. Nikki - "Where's Cole?"
Jack - "Playing with the ice machine."
I snorted.
Nikki - "I'm going to miss this side of Cole if he ever gets his memory back.
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#25. Do you feel that?
This heart is yours. It belongs to you. It beats only for you. And somewhere out there is a heart without a home, and it beats for me, and we're not giving up until we find it.
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#26. And began typing.
We will not be meeting in my bedroom. Jack and I will meet you at your condo at midnight.
Two minutes later there was an answer.
Sounds Kinky. I'll break out the whips and chains. You wear that pair of black boots I like.
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#27. I pretended for a moment_ and only for a moment_ that I was the person she was making room for. That the hand she held up reached for me. That the heart thumping in her chest beat for me and me alone. I allowed myself that split second of weakness.
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#28. There is no evil. There is no good. There is only life, and the absence of life.
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#29. Look, Nik, I know you don't like public scrutiny lately. If you stand off to the side, all mopey and such, without a date, you'll stick out like a nun at a strip club." He leaned in. "Trust me, I've seen one. A nun at a strip club, that is. Everyone was staring at her.
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#30. Cole let me pull him, saying loudly, "Lead on. I like a woman who -"
"Shut up.
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#32. My Lady, please! I am indecent.' 'You are,' Jane agreed. 'Not to mention the fact that you are also unclothed.
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#33. He was at once severe and beautiful, and the more the played, the more I felt surrounded by that cushion as well, as if I could fall and never hit the ground, as long as he was playing.
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#34. I know he is wrapping my name inside of him, folding it in the blanket of his heart. I know this because I used to do the same thing with his name when I was in the Feed.
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#35. It's in your eyes. I've done what I thought was impossible. I made you love me, but not in the way I needed. You love me as your friend.
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#36. He leaned forward and said, "Tell me, friend. Is there more for us?"
I looked down at my feet. "There's everything for us.
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#37. I had believed there was no such thing as redemption. I knew now I was wrong. Redemption had not come from grand gestures of dashing bravery. It had not come from successfully completing twelve impossible labors. Instead, redemption transpired from the small, quiet places.
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#38. I'd never look at a pick again without wondering if it was Cole's heart.
He cocked an eyebrow. But the look in your eyes was murderous. Do you have a thing against guitar picks, or we're you hoping I'd be stupid enough to still carry my heart around with me?
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#39. I grabbed the sides of my desk, as if I were about to pick it up and move it. Like a crazy person.
Cole walked over and noticed how I was grabbing my desk.
He raised an eyebrow. I think when Mrs. Stone said to take our seats, she didn't mean literally take our seats.
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#40. Sometimes ... Sometimes our hearts ... crack a little.
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#41. Stay with me, Becks. Dream of me. I am ever yours.
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#42. If I lost you ... why can't you see that would be the end of me?
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#43. Despite all the other factors that had contributed to my fate, in the end it was my decision that destroyed my life. And all the hurt I was enduring now was my doing. The blame rested solely with me.
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#44. I was in the neighborhood," he said, answering the question I was about to ask. His lips twitched. "You know, wandering around, trying to be a hero.
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#45. He held me back just enough so I could see his face, and his determined frown. You meant for this life.
With me.
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#46. Nikki - "What does that mean?"
Cole - "It means I am your only sorce of survival."
His face broke out into a wide grin.
"I wish Gavin were here. I'd have him give me a drum roll.
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#47. Sometimes, when someone keeps forgiving someone else, it becomes too much.
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#48. Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills out and onto anyone around us. We call it a cracked heart.
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#49. Cole: " There's the old Nik. No 'how do you do', no talk of the weather. Just a good swift kick to the balls."
Nikki: "A kick to your balls is an option?
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#50. Brother, when you've been here as long as I have, you'll come to discover there are only one or two essential things worth living for. Unique to you and you alone. My honor is one of them for me. I keep my honor by keeping the relic out of their hands.
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#51. Maybe a ghost is the safest person to talk to.
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#52. I'm taking the whole. Damn. Thing. Down. Are you with me?
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#53. You know I have no power over the balance of the Everneath." He glanced at Jack. "Sorry,bro.Even with your biceps, we can't fight the force of nature.
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#56. You say you hate me, yet, you use me to stop hurting.
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#57. I held the car key out, pointed and ready.
Cole eyed the key. Uh-oh. Is that key loaded?
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#58. What happened?" I asked, squinting at his face.
Cole glanced at Max. "I wanted to jump in after you. Max disagreed with the appropriateness of that reaction. And then his face ran into my fist.
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#59. I tell him there'll be an army waiting for him, and your friend is only concerned with the color of their uniforms. What's this really about?"
Max shrugged. "A girl."
I glared at Max. "Dude. Shut up.
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#60. Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.
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#61. I pushed against him but he held me tight.
'You're delusional' I said.
'I'm the delusional guy whose going to keep you alive'
There was a fire behind his eyes. I set my jaw.
'You're the delusional guy who killed me in the first place
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#62. Why are you carrying rope around with you?" I asked skeptically.
"Stop asking me dirty questions," he said with a smirk.
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#63. Find something that reminds you of Jack ... "
"Like what?"
"The two of you were lovey-dovey. Didn't he ever give you.. I don't know ... a heart shaped locket necklace?"
"No."
"A teddy? With a T-shirt that says I LOVE YOU BEARY MUCH?
I rolled my eyes. "No. He wasn't like that.
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#64. Never focus on the end. Only focus on your first step.
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#65. It says 'Bet you were expecting a heart, shaped like a compass ... '" Jack paused and pulled the note off the bow tie. " ... And then he drew a frowny face.
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#66. I guess nothing says 'I'm sorry' like a tea cozy.
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#67. To get someone to follow them, a Siren would most likely appear as that person's deepest desire. The thing they wanted most. Cole's had become me, only it wasn't me as the queen, which I assumed would've been what Cole wanted most. It wasn't even me as an Everliving.
It was me, simply as me.
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#68. Tell me why you care," I said.
He put his hands on the windowsill. "Because it's you. Despite what you think of me, your pain will always be my pain.
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#69. You know the Everneath?"
"Uh, yeah, I think I'm familiar with it."
"Good. Because I'm going to destroy it. I'm taking the whole. Damn. Thing. Down. Are you with me?
"Always. Forever.
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#70. If I could feed off Cole without our lips touching ...
If I could feed off Cole from across the room ... even better.
From across the Earth ... best.
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#71. "Specifically, Hercules. Yes, the strong man often is perceived as an oaf. Light on the brain cells, heavy on the the biceps."
Cole leaned over and said under his breath, "We all know someone like that, don't we?
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#72. I hadn't learned anything new, except that another one of the Dead Elvises had an affinity for the Shop-n-Go. And Jack officially thought I'd lost my last marble.
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#73. Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.
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#74. Sometimes ... " He paused and squeezed his eyes shut. " Sometimes our hearts ... crack a little." -Jack
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#75. Don't smile. The queen is going to come at you, and she's going to conjure up a ... machine gun, and your going to counter with a plastic straw.
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#76. So he earns your undying love by reading a book under a tree?" Cole said dryly. "Why didn't I ever try that approach? I like books and trees.
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#77. You really can't see it, can you?"
"See what?"
"He has a tether too. And it points right at you.
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#78. It's about how there's no such thing as redemption," I whispered. "How you deserve what you get, and no higher power can save you.
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#79. I didnt tell him I'd thought of him every day. That even when every other memory had faded, he never left. - Nikki
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#80. Because ... it'll make everything worse ... If you don't feel-
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#81. Give me your heart," I said.
He tilted his head, leaned forward, watching my eyes the entire time to make sure it was okay, and kissed me lightly on the lips. "You already have it.
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#82. Cole - For the fifth labour what better treat than to sling giant chunks of dung
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#83. There's no such thing as 'epic love'. But there is such a thing as 'epically bad decisions based on something believed to be love, but is most likely lust.
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#84. Too much math and science isn't nourishing to the soul.
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#85. I didn't care that we'd caught a few stares from students passing by. I didn't care that the bell to begin class rang. I didn't care that everything between us had changed. All I cared about was the fact that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get any closer to Jack.
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#86. Tell me, friend. Is there more for us?"
I looked into his eyes, "There is everything for us.
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#87. In the absence of proof, all that matters is perception.
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#88. I dreamed of you every night. It felt so real. And when I'd wake up the next morning, it was like your disappearance was fresh. Like you'd left me all over again.
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#89. How are you still sane?"
"Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me."
Shit.
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#90. ...and we have compiled what we so delicately refer to as... THE TRUTH. (Because of the danger, we considered changing our names. But we didn't. Still, we sleep with swords under our pillows.)
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#91. How are you so good at reading me when you can't read anyone else around you?" He sighed, and as he climbed out the window, he said, "I love it.
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#92. Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.
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#93. I loved him, but I didn't know how to fix all of the things that were broken in our family.
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#94. I would never kiss you!" The siren's screech brought me back to the Everneath, and I drew away from Cole.
He had a devilish grin on his face, and he turned toward the siren. "I know. But the real Nik would - if it was to save my life." He looked back at me. "Hey, Nik.
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#95. Tell me, friend," Jack said, his fingertips grazing mind as people shuffled past us in the hallway. "Is there more for us?"
I looked at my feet. "There's everything for us.
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