20 Quotes by Cindy Pon

The beautiful creatures are often the most dangerous,” she murmured.

The thick, stagnant air reeked of perfume, cigarettes, and exhaust. Everyone was barefaced, wanting to flaunt their features instead of hiding beneath blank masks. To be able to flirt with their lips, to be able to kiss. But I wasn’t fooled by the dark – the air was still poisonous. Even if we couldn’t see the brown haze, it smothered our city lit in neon.

In the end, she never did get to see me wear this jacket. She caught a cold that turned into a virulent strain of pneumonia. We couldn’t afford the medical care or medicines that might have saved her life. And at thirteen, I watched her die.

Truth is, reality always crushes your ideals,” the guy shouted at my back. “Just you wait and see.

You’re irresistible.

Her entire body flushed, thrilled from his touch.

This is what it meant to be a you, to have. To be genetically cultivated as a perfect human specimen before birth – vaccinated and fortified, calibrated and optimized.

You do not live as long as I have, and survive, by feeling deeply. I sometimes wonder, from my observations, if mortals do not often die from broken hearts.

Losing the momentum she had had with her serpentine length, Skybright stumbled forward, falling hard on her knees.