334 Quotes by Ann Aguirre

Hey, that’s why they in­vented the In­ter­net, her­manita. To talk about weird shit and down­load porn.

Su aire de superioridad me irritó, pero aquella era su fiesta y yo era su invitada. Tenía educación suficiente para saber que no debía inmovilizarle el brazo a la espalda y aplastarle la cara contra el suelo.

While I might be scarred, I'm not broken. I'm not ruined. And there's no shame in knowing I made bad choices. Everyone does. There's no such thing as "perfect" in this world, only people who are pretending.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much aspersonal choice.

...as if prayers ever put out a fire.

You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in.

You think a man doesn't fall down, son? A real man falls down nine times and gets up ten. You think real men don't get scared? We do, all the time, especially when the people we love can be taken away from us. The key to manhood is being there, every morning when she wakes up, every night before she goes to bed. That's what a man does. It has nothing to do with how good you are with some shiny knives. And if you let her do this thing alone, then by God—

Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best.-Deuce, (183)

The strong survive.