Top 100 Christopher Pike Quotes
#1. All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted to capture that feeling with 'Don't Look Back.'
Jennifer Armentrout
#2. No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.
Christopher Pike
#3. When I look at my life, there has been far more pain than joy.
Christopher Pike
#4. You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.
Christopher Pike
#5. The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.
Christopher Pike
#6. Life is like that short visit on the road. Prayer is for those who wish to talk to God. Meditation is for those who only want to listen to him.
Christopher Pike
#7. I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.
Christopher Pike
#9. They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.
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#10. He shrugs as he slowly collects himself. I guess there was a part of me that kept hoping you would rise from the dead. Like a normal vampire.
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#11. I'm a coward, I close my eyes. I don't understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.
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#12. Sita. He loved you and you loved him. You can't measure that love by how many days you spent together.
Christopher Pike
#14. But Krishna is flexible when it comes to who a person worships," I say. "He said that whatever god a man or woman worships with love, it is the same as worshipping him. I think that line is one of the keys to the Gita. The worship is for the sake of the devotee, not for the sake of the god.
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#15. Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for her closing in on me. Despite all I had learned and seen, I wished to God someone would choke her to death so I could get ahold of her and choke her some more.
Christopher Pike
#16. I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at the library I was constantly surrounded by people. And I loved my job, surrounded by so many books, so many lives, so much of the past.
Christopher Pike
#17. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.
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#18. For me, Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity's desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death.
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#19. Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.
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#20. There is no sun, but a hundred blazing blue stars,each shimmering in a long river of nebulous cloud. The air is warm, pleasant,fragrant with the perfume of a thousand invisible flowers.
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#23. Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.
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#24. When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate.
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#25. And there they were being so responsible, practicing safe sex and all. She'd been a fool to believe all that hype, she thought. The only hundred percent safe sex was between Barbie and Ken, and she'd heard rumors that they weren't doing it anymore.
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#26. Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!
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#27. It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.
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#28. He had smoked dope exactly twice, but stopped when he realized it was called dope for a reason.
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#29. You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.
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#30. Why am I talking about all this? Who am I talking to? I send out these words, these thoughts, simply because it is time. Time for what, I do not know and it does not matter because it is what I want and that is always reason enough for me.
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#31. But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.
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#32. People with power always take advantage of those without power.
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#33. Having lived so long, I can't tell the difference between the two political parties. They both sound like broken records that started skipping after the founding fathers died. Now there were some real men!
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#34. My whole life had been an uninterrupted act of loving him.
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#35. I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.
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#36. The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.
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#38. Happiness can make us feel big and sure of ourselves, but only pain gives us depth.
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#39. It's like a haunted house we can't leave,' Neil said.
A haunted house we're afraid to leave, Tony thought.
Christopher Pike
#40. There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.
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#41. As to blood - ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty.
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#42. In the heart are three emotions - I felt them then: love, fear, and hatred. I could see that an individual could only have one of the three at a time.
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#44. He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'
I lean over. My hair smothers him.
'Then you should never have been born,' I say.
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#45. We were here to become like God. To live like his blessed son. We just needed a few pints of Christ's blood to do so.
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#46. In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.
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#47. Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.
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#48. There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping.
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#49. Money may not buy happiness, but it allows you to shop in better places for it.
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#50. True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.
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#51. All those who are Born Die
And all those who Die are Reborn
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#52. No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.
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#54. One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.
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#55. I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off.
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#57. When you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves.
Christopher Pike
#58. Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?"
"You may ask."
"How old are you?"
"It's none of your business
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#59. What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.
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#60. It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.
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#62. There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.
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#63. This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.
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#64. John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'
Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.
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#65. The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.
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#66. There's only one sun," Alison said with feeling. "It's always the same, but it's always the best. Do you know what I mean?
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#70. Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.
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#72. When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.
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#73. Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.
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#75. Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.
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#76. I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives, and I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't, and who's going on the landing party and who doesn't ... and who lives, and who dies.
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#77. That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.
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#78. How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.
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#79. Slow down. The party won't start until I get there
- Jo, Remember me.
Page 43.
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#81. As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you.
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#84. The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.
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#86. Power, wealth and immortality
they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.
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#87. In that moment, there was no place for doubt. I was sitting with the supreme being. I had always sat beside her. She was inside of me.
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#88. Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.
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#90. I'm Paige," I whispered.
He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?"
I didn't answer, not right then.
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#91. A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.
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#93. They are all I have left - the stars and the memory of the many times I wished upon them. But with all those wishes, I asked for only one thing.
To see him again.
But I will not see him again. I do not see him now.
Christopher Pike
#95. Are you asking if I ever spied on you while you were taking a shower?
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#96. We all die. It's just a question of when and how horrible it's going to be.
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#97. Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.
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#98. Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.
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#99. Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.
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#100. Time cannot destroy it. I am that love - time cannot touch me. Time but changes the form. Somewhere in some time it will return. When you least expect it, the face of a loved one reappears. Look beyond that face and you will see me.
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