Top 48 Lillis Quotes
#1. Do you not have tribes? Rivalries?"
"Of course," said Taref. "All of us do. I am the son of a Naib."
"The third son of a Naib." Lillis said.
"Because of my two older brothers, I will never rule the tribe.
Brian Herbert
#2. Keep smiling, I tell myself. It's all good. That's what my wrist tattoo says and you only ink permanent words on your person if you plan to live by them.
J.C. Lillis
#3. For crap's sake: the holy-grail scene of the world's most ridiculous, implausible ship, and I was holding my breath with the rest of the room.
J.C. Lillis
#4. Abel snores pornographically, like a prince sleeping off an orgy.
J.C. Lillis
#5. Well, who doesn't love a good mpreg?"
"A what?"
"Sim gets man-pregnant? Gives birth to twins during a tornado?"
"I'll pretend I never heard that."
"Here, I'll read you the wedding one -"
"NO.
J.C. Lillis
#6. Brandon's going to talk to a B-O-Y, and -"
"What?"
"That's your assignment tonight. You converse in public with a boy. You've heard of them, right? They're like girls, but with penises?
J.C. Lillis
#7. I am tired of tripping over these Cracks in the Sidewalk,these cracks in my life.
Lillis Lish
#9. You've thrown a lot of pennies in ponds," she says. "Haven't you.
J.C. Lillis
#10. Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.
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#11. I can tell I'm being annoying, the kind of annoying where it feels like I haven't showered for days and everyone should just stay away.
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#12. God is like junior high, Brandon. Graduate already.
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#13. Sad songs are not my strong suit. All the songs that have saved my life make you feel like driving with the top down or dancing in your room with your best friend.
J.C. Lillis
#14. Pretentious."
"So? I love pretentious people!"
"Why?"
"They try so hard to be interesting, you don't have to do any work.
J.C. Lillis
#15. You can stop waiting, you know,' she says. 'For what?' 'For God to strike you down.
J.C. Lillis
#16. Omigod. Omigod, he sees you."
"So?"
"You have to talk to him."
"I don't, actually."
"Yes. Yes. After the Bill Debacle? Prove you can do this."
"My knee hurts.
J.C. Lillis
#17. Status: Naked. On bed. With boy. Systems overheating. Sudden doubts multiplying. Meltdown imminent.
J.C. Lillis
#18. Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.
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#19. he'll know it's not fic for me, not anymore.
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#20. I've never seen a naked torso that wasn't on a cross, at least not so close up. I don't know where to look. His belly button. Belly button. Look at the belly button.
J.C. Lillis
#21. Music is always the first thing I notice when I go someplace new.
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#22. Electricity crackles from her lips to mine and I'm stunned it's not visible.
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#23. My secret is cool and mysterious like a jagged scar across my chest, and not dull and heavy like I gave up church buy not the angst.
J.C. Lillis
#24. What she has is effortlessly remarkable, the kind of gift you only feel the weight of if it's something you don't have but dearly want.
J.C. Lillis
#25. It's fandom, Bran. Getting butthurt over nothing is practically a sacrament.
J.C. Lillis
#26. I see the Hell Bells post in my head, that weird "BFC" thing. Bullets From Crazies? Beat Fags Cheerfully?
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#27. I mean, if no one knows for sure what God's like, then why don't you just believe the people who think he's all rainbows and sunshine and loves you no matter what?
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#28. Entering the ball is like crashing on a planet where no one cares how you dress or how you dance or who you love.
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#29. Writing catchy pop songs is a super-minor superpower, but it's mine.
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#30. I want to make a sweater out of this week and wrap myself up in it until it falls apart. If
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#31. Close your eyes. Let a smile as big bright and bold as a disco chorus blaze across your face. Fall in love with the universe and everything in it. See yourself for one moment as the subject of every love song ever written. And as she drifts to sleep beside you, start a brand new song.
J.C. Lillis
#32. Help me be ready, I say to him. Or her. If you exist, please help. If
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#33. You can't stay fucked up forever, can you? You need to start putting yourself out there and getting humiliated like the rest of us. Only then will you be a Real Boy
J.C. Lillis
#34. And when you're a weird and awkward and paranoid person at all times, CastieCon is the happiest place on the planet.
It's like, a baseline level of freakiness is expected here, right? So unless you're disemboweling goats in the vendor hall, no one gives a damn who you are or what you're doing.
J.C. Lillis
#35. I am one man with a laptop. When I give the world my characters, it's because I don't want to keep them for myself. You don't like what I made them do? Fucking tell me I'm wrong! Rewrite the story. Throw in a new plot twist. Make up your own ending.
J.C. Lillis
#36. LIKE WHAT IS THIS LIFE EVEN. amity crashful:
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#37. He's cu-ute." Bree LaRue stumbles sideways, shielding her eyes with one hand. "Aww, look at his hair. And the chin! He's like Laurence Olivier, and a cockatoo. Like if they had a baby?
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#38. Don't be fooled into thinking that love is special. That it'll fill you up forever. Anyone can fall in love, but only you can make the art you were born for. And that's the kind of happiness that lasts.
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#39. The threat of failure shouldn't kill the fun of dreaming.
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#40. What if I die of happiness and then go right to hell?
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#42. And yes, okay, I think she's pretty, but so? Lots of people, places and things are pretty. The Mona Lisa is pretty but you don't see me crushing on her.
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#43. They are kissing - finally, extravagantly, like it's the first thirty seconds of a kissing competition and they can't imagine they'll ever get tired.
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#44. I hit send and shut my phone off before it can protest. The world doesn't end.
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#45. I've always loved Halloween: the one day of the year when you can blatantly dress as your number-one obsession and people will smile instead of snicker.
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#46. I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.
J.C. Lillis
#47. There's only one kind of girl I can tolerate being, and it is not the Girl Who Gives it All Up for Love.
J.C. Lillis
#48. The way she says kiss, it sounds different. Like she invented the word specifically for the song.
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