Top 89 Diana Peterfreund Quotes
#1. Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man.
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#2. How did anyone see the stars and not wish for more than the confinement they were born to?
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#3. Beer is fine," I said.
"For now." Adam waited as I put in my order. "You'll need something stiffer after Mike really starts getting to you."
"Oh, he's getting to me," I said, as the bartender brought my beer. "Usually, I drink Sprite.
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#4. The key to a frittata," Mike told the camera, "is to use a really hot pan. Because that, my friends, is what makes it" - he paused dramatically - "fluffy.
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#5. This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular.
Just someone who wanted me.
Not sex.
But me.
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#6. I was afraid I sounded a bit comical with all my threats. As if I needed a mustache to twirl like some sort of ancient villain.
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#7. They stared at each other and then, at last, Kai closed his eyes and nodded his head, just once. The estates would always win.
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#8. The real stars don't even fascinate me as much as they used to when I was ... younger."
"I'm sorry for that, as well.
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#9. When we have the ability to save someone's life, and we decide they aren't worthy of being saved - isn't that playing God as well?
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#10. Why the coy drama? I want him and he wants me; who needs subtext?
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#11. Do you know what you need?" Malcolm was saying now.
To get laid, I thought.
"To get laid," Malcolm said.
Shocker.
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#12. He hesitated. "Nothing, man. What are you doing right now?"
I looked down. "Petting my snake."
Malcolm laughed. "With anyone else, that would be a metaphor. Good thing I can always count on you.
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#13. That wonderful, terrible night when her mother died and her whole world had been destroyed, when she realized she loved Kai and her whole world had been created anew.
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#14. She knew that the paint and the clothes and the hair were more than fashion for Persis Blake. They were armor.
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#15. You know Case, who oversees the dairy? He saw us together in the loft last week. He says I'm the biggest fool who ever lived. I don't think he's right. But, just to be safe, I'll put out the lamp. We'll pretend we're the ancient explorers, and find our way by the stars.
Yours,
Kai
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#16. For four years she'd subsisted on memories of this - his voice, his face, the sound of his breath and his heartbeat. She felt him like a leaf feels the sun, like a magnet feels metal.
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#17. Hey," he pulled away and put his hand on my face. "What are you thinking about?"
"Your butt," I admitted.
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#18. If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.
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#19. No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.
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#20. Brandon was a natural at whatever he put his mind to. It was one of the things that made him so attractive. That and his complete lack of pretense. He was brilliant, but didn't brag, popular, but not cliquish, comfortable in his skin, and utterly forthright about his needs and desires.
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#21. True hunger was a weapon stronger
than any of his abstract desires. It's what toppled countries and made men desperate.
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#22. Maybe she's helping him because his hands are full," Lydia suggested.
The girl kissed a trace of chocolate from the corner of his mouth.
"Or not.
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#23. Dear Kai,
Come back. Come back for me. I didn't mean it. I've changed my mind. I can't bear this, Kai. I can't bear this farm, this life, this world without you.
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#24. One never notices how nice it is to be worshipped until one has fallen from grace,
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#25. The world changes. Now, one needs no army and no sword to conquer the world.
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#26. I have a question for you, but it's kind of ... um, personal."
"Yes, I'm gay."
"You really are a fan of saying that, aren't you?"
"Once you start, you just can't stop.
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#28. Sometimes you met someone that changed the pattern, who wormed their way past the cracks in your heart, caulked them up, sealed themselves in, and stayed there. Sometimes they did it by insisting you meet them at every step, as Jamie had done to me.
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#29. P - Jamie!" I called.
He waded back toward me. "I'm starting to think my name is Pajamie."
"Your name should be Pajerky. You said it wasn't deep."
"Pajerky?" He gave me a skeptical look. "That's Pathetic."
"We'll see how smug you are once I'm on dry land.
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#30. I really wish your boyfriend would stay out of my love life."
"Funny. I bet Felicity wishes her boyfriend would stay out of it, too.
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#32. Hello? Hello, Mom. No, of course you didn't wake me. Don't you know? I often engage in Monday morning orgies In fact, as you called, I was just enjoying an especially thorough rogering from two men named Paolo and Butch.
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#34. Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity
and pain.
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#35. It was amazing, all the thoughts that oozed out as soon as a single crack appeared in the surface of your beliefs.
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#36. Across the sea and up the stair
The Wild Poppy's everywhere.
Though southmen search until they're blind
They know not what they seek to find.
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#37. I don't do drugs, I've never been arrested, and from what I hear, I'm not too shabby in bed. Not that any of you people will ever have the opportunity to discover that first-hand!
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#39. We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.
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#40. My best friend, a liar. My society brothers, my lover, and now my best friend. Any second now, my parents would call and tell me they were actually space aliens. Or European royalty. Or Republicans.
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#41. And if the boat sinks?"
"And if the sun explodes?" Elliot countered.
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#42. Topher? Dude, how many oaths did this kid plan to break in his first month as a Digger?Who did he think he was?Me?
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#43. See, Jace never learned how to flirt properly, because he was raised by a murderous sociopath.
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#44. Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
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#45. Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.
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#46. Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.
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#47. [Poe] started to turn away, the stopped, smiled a little, ducked his head, and reached into his back pocket. "Amy, here." He tossed me a small package. "Just in case."
I looked down at my hand.
Life savers.
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#48. There are a few things that even sarcasm can't protect you from.
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#49. I'd hoped being tapped meant they were willing to listen to someone like me. Apparently, what it really meant is that they hoped they could make someone like me listen to them.
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#50. There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?
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#51. I found the hum of his computer rather soothing, but it was the complete lack of unicorn carcasses that really pulled the room together.
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#52. Day by day, the superficial mask she'd donned chafed more and more; and no matter how many disguises Persis took on as the Poppy, she couldn't help but feel they fit her better than the one she wore at home.
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#53. She was nothing like me; she was everything like me. How was that even possible?
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#54. The secret to surviving heartbreak is finding more pressing drama.
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#55. No matter where I went, I always knew my way back to you. You are my compass star.
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#57. Hey, Mom and Dad, this is my "friend" Jamie. My boyfriend Jamie. We're going to England together. Also, I met him in a secret society. We're Diggers,folks. And Eli graduates. And in love.What do you think?
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#58. I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.
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#59. It's not a boys" club," I said. Not anymore. "It's one of the most powerful secret societies in the world." I should know. I'm a member.
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#60. It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a book that's just not happening. The next book you write could be the book, the one that isn't a fight to get representation for at all.
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#61. How do you know you're in love?" I asked her. "Because if it's determined by how willing you are to give up everything for the other person, I think it's a flawed system.
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#62. The tiniest of earthquakes seemed to rustle through him, the kind that shakes petals off flowers, as Justen became aware of the gulf between what he was supposed to feel for Persis Blake and what he actually did.
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#63. When people have guns, you run in the other direction or you're meat. We have a half-dozen deer heads on the wall at home that can tell you that."
"Or would," Howard added," if they weren't dead. And deer.
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#64. You want to know what's even more troublesome?" I scooted up. "Our real names rhyme."
He chuckled. "Yeah, they do. I never thought of that.
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#65. Brandt and a couch-or worse, an empty master bedroom-were a very bad combo. He morphed from vaguely risque fling to bad-boy octopus man whenever he was in the vicinity of any marginally promising flat surface.
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#66. I said go away!"
"No, you said 'get out'. I'm out."
"Now go away."
Silence. And then, "No.
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#67. But right then, one room away, there were people in love, and I'd never felt so alone in my life.
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#68. I can't tell my dad that there's no way I'm crashing some collegiate party covered in sweat and dirt. I look like a ditch digger, not a Rose & Grave Digger.
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#69. I mean being a knight," she said."Was it worth it?"
The drama, the heartache, the stress? The friendships, the conspiracies, the pranks, the bonding ... Was it worth it?Oh, yeah.But then her words sunk in. Was. Past tense. For I was no longer an active knight of Rose & Grave.I was a patriarch.
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#70. Because I can tell that I'm different from the others. And they can tell, too. The rest of the taps look at me and ask themselves what I'm doing here. I know they do.
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#71. It's the underlying inequality. Someone is always the one who loves more, and it eventually drives the other - the less loving one - away. Just the pressure of it.
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#72. I want to take their money and let them build their ship and get off my land. That's all I want."
"Good to know," said a voice above her head.
Elliot and Dee looked up, and there, shadowed against the light from the swinging sun-lamps, stood Kai.
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#73. We've known each other for a while," I said. "And our feelings just ... blossomed."
"Like fungus off rotted meat?" Josh snarked.
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#75. Why was he here? Why was he always, always, always around? Didn't he have a life? Didn't he have anything better to do?
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#76. Ti voglio bene ... It means everything. It means I love you. It means I want you. It means I want you to be okay. It means everything.
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#77. Around this time, I decided to go back to the bathroom and, oh, I don't know, wash my hands, brush my hair, maybe pluck my eyebrows.
Stuff.
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#78. Gordian pays you to sleep with unicorn hunters. That's the definition of a whore.
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#79. Love was magma, shooting from the Earth. It had the potential to form pillars of rock that would last for a thousand years or plumes of ash that choked the sky.
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#80. You should know that you're exactly the person you think you are.
Elliot turned away as the tear escaped. That's what she was afraid of.
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#82. There's nothing wrong with Plan B.Play it right, and no one will even know it wasn't your first choice.
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#83. Look at us. You look like death, my friend, and I'm sure I do, too. We'll never stop blaming ourselves. I guess that's the price of love?
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#84. Soze shook his head. "If someone checks our Internet search records, don't you think it will look suspicious that before we called the police, we checked up on the evidence?"
Poe laughed mirthlessly. "We're Rose & Grave, junior. Everything we do looks suspicious.
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#85. She knows your mother isn't here to protect you any more. But you know what the solution is: stay out of her way. Stay here. Stay with me.
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#86. There was Malcolm in the front row, his hand resting on the shoulder of the knight I knew as Poe. I looked at the list of names beneath the photo.
-James Orcutt.
What a ridiculously normal name. I'd half been expecting Darth Vader
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#87. In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be.
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#88. For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breath-taking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know who can break it.
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#89. She could smell the sea in the air, but more than that, she could smell the scent of the grass as it awoke from its winter slumber. She could hear the sound of crickets as they sang to the emerging stars. It was springtime on the North Island. It was springtime for the world.
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