Top 100 Michelle Hodkin Quotes
#1. Grounded likely means no phone or computer," Jamie said. "But if I encounter an owl, I'll try to smuggle a message to the outside, okay?
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#2. Noah recited his next title. The New Adventures of Curious
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#3. I'm not sure you can appreciate how much I want to lay you out before me and make you scream my name.
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#4. Mara, if you're tired, I can hear it. If you're hurt, I can feel it. And if you lie, I will know it.
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#7. Don't you mean 'assclown'?" he looked amused.
"No," I said louder this time. "I mean asscrown. The crown on top of the asshat that covers the asshole of the assclown. The very zenith in the hierarchy of asses.
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#8. Time was supposed to heal all wounds, but how could it when Jude kept picking the scab?
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#9. If you order some servant to bring food, I'm leaving."
"I was going to make sure Albert hadn't moved the car."
"Oh, right. Albert the butler."
"He's a valet, actually."
"You are not helping yourself.
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#10. If I were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one of them.
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#11. They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.
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#13. You could start a fire with the heat between you two."
"You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.
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#14. Scheide,'Noah said.
I decided to give the drink another shot. 'What does that mean?' I asked, then sipped.
'Vagina'
I almost choked, and covered my mouth with my hand.
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#15. No, I got it," he said. His voice was weird.
"Really?" I felt a nervous thrill in my stomach. "What was it?"
Jamie hesitated before he spoke. Then he said, "Marashaw.
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#16. Is there any point in asking what you're going to do to me?"
He grinned wickedly. "Not really."
Fabulous.
"Does it involve the use of a safe word?"
"That will depend entirely on you.
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#17. You could be seen but not loved, or loved and not seen.
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#18. Even if what he says is true, I am simply out of fucks to give. I had few to spare to begin with.
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#19. There were days when I felt that a dragon slept inside me, and exhaled poison with every breath. I flirted with suicide more times than I can count. But I know now why I never did it. I was saving that day for you.
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#20. Nope,' Jamie said without hesitation, which is how I knew he was lying. But I understood why. Sometimes lies are easier to believe.
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#21. So we can't start a fire. We can't fly. We can't create a force field. We are the most bullshit superheroes.
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#22. Noah acted like he felt nothing because he felt everything. He seemed not to care because he cared too much.
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#23. It's a long story that involves copious quantities of alcohol and Lolita.
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#24. I'm too selfish to leave you," I said. Noah pulled back so I could see his smile. "I'm too selfish to let you.
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#25. Both of us are justifiably disturbed by this development, though it has provided a new avenue of exploration as to why the fuck both of us are so deeply weird.
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#26. And then you show up with the voice from my nightmare, and you call me an asshole.
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#28. I don't know how our story will end, but I know how it will start.
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#29. I wonder if it's possible to know someone through the words they love.
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#32. Noah's Gift is that he could live forever and help others to as well, but his curse is that he only wants to die.
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#33. If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.
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#34. I didn't know enough to hold myself back. Now I was too aware, hyperaware, and so the fear chained me.
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#35. Her graphite pencil scratches the thick paper and it is the soundtrack to my bliss. That, and her sound - dissonant, aching. Her breath and heartbeat and pulse are my new favorite symphony; I'm beginning to learn which notes will play when, and to interpret them.
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#36. I would wait forever for the promise of seeing Mara, unleashed.
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#37. The thing about happiness, though, is that it never lasts.
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#38. My father might be right. If I lost Noah, I might just lose my mind.
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#39. I don't have a favorite color, though I strongly dislike yellow. Horrid color.
I resolved to wear something yellow the next time I saw him. Yellow from head to toe, if I could manage it.
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#40. It's like you're a mirror and you show me who I want to be, instead of who I am.
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#41. The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full words.
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#42. Names?' the receptionist asked us.
"Jesus," Jamie answered.
"Mary," said Stella.
"Satan," I said as I walked past her and pushed open the door to Ira Ginsberg's office.
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#43. Mara : I'm too selfish to leave you
Noah Shaw : I'm too selfish to let you
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#44. I explore the full boxes, mostly brimming with battered, dog-eared, highlighted books. The pages are worn, well-read, and I skim through them. I wonder if it's possible to know someone through the words they loved.
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#45. I don't hear peeing," Jamie said mockingly.
"Eat me," I muttered.
"What's that?"
"Leave me," I said louder.
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#46. No, it isn't irrelevant. You want me as much as I want you. And all I want is you.
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#47. Now you're just being cruel.'
'I like pushing your buttons.'
'You'd enjoy it more if you undid them first.
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#48. I think Stella's a little scared of you," he said, while I changed for bed in the bathroom. "And you're not?" I called out. "Of you? You have the soul of a kitten." I popped my head out of the bathroom. "A kitten." "An assassin kitten.
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#49. If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.
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#51. The palm trees on the median swayed and bent, threatening to snap. But they wouldn't. They were strong enough to take it.
And so was I.
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#52. Someone always says, 'Kids are mean.' 'Kids will be kids.' Which implies that the kid bullies will grow out of it someday." The muscles in his jaw tightened. His stare was unfocused and far away. "I don't think they do. I think kid bullies turn into adult bullies.
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#53. Where's Noah?" I asked with steel in my voice. My eyes searched the room, but there was nothing to find. "Why did you tell me he was dead?" Dr. Kells was reaching into a cardboard box by her feet as I spoke. "Because he is.
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#55. Noah started this chase and I stood before him, waiting to be caught. He could have me, but he refused to move.
Only now did I realize why.
He wanted to be caught. He was waiting for me to chase him.
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#56. You don't get what you do for him. You're like his manic pixie dream girl or something." Jamie thought for a second. "Actually, more like his psychotic demon nightmare thing, but whatever. You get my point.
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#57. You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.
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#58. Lightning flickered through the windows that wouldn't release us and made monsters of our shadows against the wall.
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#60. How did you get my number?" I blurted, before I could stop myself.
"It's called research." I could hear him smirking over the phone.
"Or stalking."
Noah chuckled. "You're adorable when you're bitchy."
"You're not," I said, but smiled despite myself.
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#62. If I truly loved him, she said, I would let him go.
I wish I loved him enough.
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#63. You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.
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#64. It doesn't bother me," I said. "If you don't mind looking forty years old at twenty, smelling like an ashtray, and getting lung cancer, why should I?
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#66. Gather my leaves,
Twist them into crowns
Let me be the king of your forest
Climb on my branches,
I will seek out your hide
s you sleep beneath the shade
Of my giving tree
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#67. Words have power. And I may be privileged and have a higher IQ than any of our former teachers, but when people look at me? They see a black, male teenager. And there is nothing quite as frightening to some folks as an angry young black man.
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#68. Rape is about power, nt sex. It's about using force or the threat of it to take control over another person.
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#71. I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.
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#72. If I explained everything maybe he would understand. I needed to be understood.
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#73. I wish we could make out in your bed."
Noah sighed. "As do I, but I'm afraid we have ritual burning to conduct."
"It's always something."
"Isn't it though?
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#75. Why do you always look like you just rolled out of bed?'
'Because usually I have.' And the way he raised his eye-brow at me made me blush.
'Classy,' I said.
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#76. The people we care about are always worth more to us than the people we don't. No matter what anyone pretends.
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#77. This is where the privileged send their screwed-up progeny; no gluing macaroni to construction paper for us." He paused meaningfully. "They only let us CREATE with RICCIOLINI here."
"I don't even know what that is."
"It's very fancy, I assure you
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#80. We're mutants now?"
"Don't tell Marvel. They'll sue us.
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#81. What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I'd like to rip off your clothes and have your babies.
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#82. I find it hilarious that whenever I light up, Americans look at me like I'm going to urinate on their children.
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#83. What?' Noah looked at me, all innocence.
'You're not shy.'
'No?'
'No,' I said, narrowing my eyes. 'And pretending to be makes you look like a jackass.'
Noah feigned offense. 'You've wounded me to the core with your profane characterization.'
'Pass the tissues.
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#84. I did something brave, then. Or stupid. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
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#85. Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.
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#86. For as long as I can remember, I've had trouble with feelings. Other people get scared, nervous, or shy, excited, or happy, sad. I seem to have only two settings: blank or empty.
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#88. I hate that I never managed to persuade you to watch Buffy. It's a flaw in you, Mara.
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#89. Why is it that whenever anyone says something offensive, they always add 'no offense' after it?
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#90. I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it.
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#91. Most people are like sand, the impact of their lives washed away by years.
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#92. Our mouths were fluent in the language of each other and we moved with one mind and shared the same breath.
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#93. I'm just glad you didn't get you greedy little claws on the OTHER sketchbook. THAT would have been embarrassing.
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#94. While Daniel disappeared into his room, probably to limn the contours of some exquisite constellation of philosophical nonsense for his internship applications and gasp in the throes of his overachieving OCDness.
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#95. This is what I knew: I was trapped in my body, in that bed, at that moment. But even as I looked out through the windows of my eyes, through the bars of my prison, I knew I wouldn't be trapped forever.
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#96. What the hell were you doing with five thousand dollars on you?"
"Eight, actually. I had grand plans for today. Hookers and blow aren't cheap, but I suppose animal sacrifice will have to do. Happy birthday.
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#97. But non of this matters, because you're not going to listen to your token black Jewish bi friend, are you?
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#98. If you ask the wrong questions, you will get the wrong answers.
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#99. What had happened would always be part of us, but we'd survived it. We were still here. The curtain would fall ons us eventually, but I would fight to keep it up as long as I could. For now it was just us, together, and there was nothing in our way.
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#100. I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie's cheek.
"FUCK," he shouted, wiping it off. "What if you killed me!" He threw a Skittle at my face. It hit my forehead.
"Ow!"
"Taste the rainbow bitch.
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