Veturius Quotes

#1. Veturius is a Mask like the rest of us, yes. Bold, brave, strong, swift. But those were afterthoughts for him. Elias sees people as they should be, not as they are. He laughs at himself. He gives of himself - in everything he does. [...] He's the things that I can't be. He's good.

Sabaa Tahir

#2. Rise, Elias Veturius." Tas smacks my face, and I blink at him in surprise. His eyes are fierce. "You gave me a name," he says. "I want to live to hear it on the lips of others. Rise." I

Sabaa Tahir

#3. You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.

Sabaa Tahir

#4. Don't look so worried. Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters.

Sabaa Tahir

#5. I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

Gabrielle Reece

#6. You - you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you."

"Does that bother you?"

"Well, it certainly makes you harder to hate.

Sabaa Tahir

#7. The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

James Altucher

#8. Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time - that's permanent.

Sabaa Tahir

#9. For in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.

Lee Smith

#10. Even a broken tree can bear fruit

Rick Warren

#11. I don't look at the wound. I don't need to. I watched the Commandant as she carved it into me, a thick-lined, precise K stretching from my collarbone to the skin over my heart. She branded me. Marked me as her property. It's a scar I'll carry to the grave.

Sabaa Tahir

#12. None of this was real, after all. It was just a refuge in her mind.

Stephen King

#13. We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Charles Lamb

#14. I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing.

Sabaa Tahir

#15. Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

Della Reese

#16. You're sure this is what you want?" I search her eyes for doubt, fear, uncertainty, but all I see is that fire. Ten hells
"I'm sure"
"Then I'll find a way

Sabaa Tahir

#17. After I pull my eyes away from her, I realize that I'm not the only one dumbstruck. Many of the young men around me sneak glances at her. She doesn't seem to notice, which, of course, makes her all the more intriguing.

Sabaa Tahir

#18. I'd say it's impossible, but the Commandant trained the word out of me.

Sabaa Tahir

#19. Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the confusion rolling around inside the both of us.
This should be interesting

Sabaa Tahir

#20. I'm too hot to care.

Sabaa Tahir