168 Quotes by Julianna Baggott

Scars are good. Right, Helmud? It's the body's way of making armour.

I prefer true over happy now.

The ugliness is what makes the beautiful things beautiful.

First, you hand over some basics--overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

When I first met you, I thought we were made for each other even though we seemed like opposites in some ways and we fought. But now...""What?""Now I feel like we weren't made for each other. We're making each other—into the people we should become. Do you know what I mean?

The world is frenzied—giving and taking.

For the first time in as long as he can remember, El Capitan is proud of his brother. "Damn it, Helmud! Shit! You’ve been planning to kill me!

Wir sollten feiern, was wir feiern können.

When you’re in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual