334 Quotes by Ann Aguirre

Did you ever try to stop that girl when she’s running? I’d have more luck roping the wind.

The human heart defies such boundaries sometimes. It just does what it’s meant to do, and gives love where it receives it. Sometimes.

Do you miss him?” he asked. “Every day.

What was the good of having such a fine home if you weren’t willing to fight for it?

The idea didn’t make me like her less, but I did feel sad and heavy, as if I’d lost something without ever knowing what it was.

But if you’re to be punished regardless if we’re caught wouldn’t it be better to have done something worth the price?

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 –.

Nobody would ever be like Fade. That much, I knew.

I never felt beautiful unless I was fighting, and even then it was something that went beyond skin and bone into the kinetic joy of successive movements. Kick, thrust, slash. I never doubted Fade at my back. I never faltered.