Top 43 Jackson Pearce Quotes
#1. Would I trade that in, give it away for the hunt? I stumble down the stairs of a subway. No. I couldn't trade it in again. Not now that I know what it is to be loved. Not now that I've stepped out of the cave and into the sun.
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#3. Scarlet ... " Silas begins in a serious tone. He started using "the tone" when we were kids to remind me that he's older than I am. It annoys me just as much now as it did then, only now it's less acceptable for me to push him into the mud for it.
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#4. The song sounds like the ocean- it rises and falls, notes splash forward and harmonize with the sea behind me.
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#5. This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no ... love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us.
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#6. I should be mad. I should hate her. I should judge her. But there is some madness in love.
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#7. You're sleeping with someone for a Promise. I slept with Anna because I wanted to at the time. The fact that your mom died doesn't mean your reasons are better than mine or you're better than Anna.
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#8. Jealousy is a mortal emotion. One that means I feel I have something to lose
something that, if gone, will tear away a part of me.
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#9. I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.
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#10. Here I am, saving your lives, bitten and scarred and wounded for you, and you don't even know it.
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#11. Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't
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#12. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.
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#13. Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!
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#14. How could I possibly try to pretend the sunlight doesn't exist, now that it's taken so much of me?
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#15. I'm the only one left to fight so now I must kill you
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#16. you don't just start fresh when something has that sort of history, even if there are a few stains.
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#17. Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.
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#18. You don't need to explain. This is your house too-you can go where you want," I reply. I smile as best as I can. "Except my room, of course."
"Why, you'll stab me with a kitchen knife if I do?" she jokes as I set the knife down onto Oma March's bedside table.
"Maybe," I answer.
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#19. I don't know how to bowl."
"Right, that's a problem, since this place really screams 'professional bowling,'" Silas snips back, rolling his eyes.
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#20. Knowledge does have a way of making you an outcast.
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#21. The air feels sugary and thick, between the coffee steam and the music, and I forget to notice time passing, hours passing.
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#22. Please, Jonas. Men got brute strength and size. Women got hot bodies and steel-trap minds. It's our leg up in your little male-dominated society.
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#23. Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress ... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that.
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#24. Wow," Silas says softly as he kills the ignition. I follow his stare out the windshield - Rosie is standing in the kitchen doorway, arms folded and eyes sparkling in anger. "Rosie looks ... different.
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#25. How about we go through the festival once before picking a spot?"
"Why?" I ask.
"Because I enjoy apples," he replies. Rosie giggles. "Because then we can go if there's a spot that would be particularly easy to grab a girl from," he answers again, voice serious this time.
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#26. I turn back to them, trying to maintain control of my emotions, trying to keep the two of them from seeing that I'm shaking in sorrow and anger and hurt.
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#27. It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.
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#28. I recognize the look in Silas's eyes
adoration. I furrow my eyebrows and try to shake away the feeling of being punched in the face.
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#29. It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.
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#30. My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have a heart that is undeniably, irreparably different.
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#31. When they attack her, I scream until my voice is hoarse so I don't have to hear the shredding sounds.
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#32. I hesitate, then put my other hand on top of his. We're partners. Always have been, even when I hate him, when he's a thousand miles away, when he loves my sister ... even when it'd be easier to go it alone for good.
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#33. Promise One: Love and listen to my father. This whole time I've been obeying his every word, following all the rules, saying all the right things. But I never did what he really wanted all along.
Because I was never really listening.
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#34. I don't care anymore. Even if she never speaks to me again because of the press, she's worth it. She makes me a person, not just a wish granter.
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#36. Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.
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#37. I follow, always, because it's the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when I'm certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two.
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#38. So, um, if he tried the fruit... shouldn't guys be having Princess Balls, too? Or Prince Balls, I guess?" I didn't mean the question to be entirely sarcastic, nor did I mean to say "prince balls," but I really want to know why the hell guys aren't stuck in this tomb of eternal virginity with us.
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#39. The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.
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#40. Strange how seeing the light can make a person feel so alone in the darkness
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#42. People always figure it's the color guard, but seriously, it's the woodwinds you've got to look out for.
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#43. I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.
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