Top 45 Pettersson Quotes
#1. 'Sex drives us, love or no love. Power or no power. Money or no money. It's the most powerful drug in the world. Some pay for it. Some die for it.'
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#2. 'When there's time for everything, there's value in nothing.'
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#4. Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.
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#5. 'Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.'
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#6. Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.
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#8. 'You love her without willing it or wanting it, and that is the most exquisite pain of all.'
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#9. Bridget scoffed. "And you can lay odds that a man who's driven in his life's pursuits - whatever they are - will be equally driven when it comes to you." Stilling suddenly, she looked up from her work. "You can lose yourself to a man like that.
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#10. I wasn't heading toward a future I wanted as much as I was running away from one I didn't.
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#11. Most people were oblivious to the luck already bestowed upon them. I'd certainly been guilty of it.
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#12. So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms.
"I'm not fallen," he said roughly.
"Then what are you?"
He shrugged. "Busted.
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#13. There's nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter
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#15. What would become of me if I was never truly seen again? - Joanna
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#16. Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.
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#17. Do I seem like the white-picket-fence sort of girl to you, Carl?" "No, you seem like the blood-soaked-walls kind of girl to me.
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#18. And that was is. Life sometimes flips on you like that. One minute you're looking at your reflection in the water, not entirely sure you like what you see, and the next minute you are upside down, submerged in a world where even familiar things look new.
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#19. Because you can't unknow your life's experiences,' Grif said. This was his area of expertise.
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#20. He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret, and with such power and raw force, I often woke with the taste of salt from my tears clinging to my skin. Joanna about Ben
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#22. Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too to find that while people were being ripped from her life like paper dolls from a chain, she longed to be the one who'd be gone first.
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#23. What about Cher and Suzanne?" I called after him.
"I don't know, but if you end up kissing them, call me. I wanna watch.
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#25. 'Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.'
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#26. 'It ain't ever over. You can't have no future if you don't have no past, and the past ain't never done with you...At the end of your life, all you have is what you know.'
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#27. 'Being single ... is about hope. It's about the future ... the person you might meet at Starbucks or online or in the next aisle at the grocery store.'
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#28. Most had faded to a light jade by now ... all except Chandra, I noted, with more than a little satisfaction. She was still a dazzling Day-Glo emerald, and I gave a little finger wave from across the room. She merely returned the finger.
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#29. There's something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There's also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn't turn out half bad either.
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#30. I quickly found myself in the center of the room, trussed up to a sturdy, high-backed chair, which Joaquin happily assured me was an original Louis the Fourteenth. Oh goody. I'd hate to die bound to something from IKEA.
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#31. Love isn't just worth remembering and saving. True love is what saves us all.
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#32. The kiss was like swollen storm clouds ready to erupt, and when he moaned into my mouth, it was dewy and thunderous and zinging with ozone.
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#33. Chemistry was such a strange thing. I'd be willing to bet even Micah couldn't tell me why hundreds of men could leave me cold, while this one could string me along forever with only a smile.
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#34. Success, she [Evie] claimed, made people want to trust you.
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#35. All right," Marcus said, like he was doing me a grave favor. "But take it slow, sister. Any sudden moves and we'll drop you like a used-up ho on the corner of Fifth and Bridger.
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#36. Miss me?" he whispered, giving me the once-over, eyes lingering on my chest. My heart skipped a beat. My glyph pulsed painfully.
"Like a urinary tract infection," I said, through gritted teeth.
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#37. Even now ... she [Kit] still had a need to believe that most people, that most of life, was good. That belief was a sort of strength, too.
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#38. Even with tortured minds and broken spirits, even bound to the Surface, they ached for God's presence. It would be like being drawn back into the womb. It would be rest. It was the only real redemption there was.
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#39. I didn't know his middle name or his favorite color, but I knew how his thoughts felt caressing my mind. The bright tang of his adrenaline coursing under my skin. The force of his heart, strong and rhythmic and a bit sad, pumping within my own chest.
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#40. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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#42. I snorted. I could write a doctoral dissertation on his 'charitable spirit.
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#43. This was not a loss that could be shared. Grief was a place every person had to go alone, a lonely country populated by mistakes and a futile desire to turn back time for an impossible do-over.
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#44. Looks can't hide your true identity. It's the eyes that give you away ... the soul behind them. The intent. The Shadows.
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#45. That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard. Joanna
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