111 Quotes by Margaret Stohl

When you’re alive, you don’t dwell on how you’re going to spend your time once you’re dead. You just figure you’re gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself. Or you think you’re not really going to die. You’re going to be the first person in the history of the world who doesn’t have to. Maybe that’s some kind of lie our brains tell us to keep us from going crazy while we’re alive.

Lucas motions to Ro’s ears, where the blood is spattering down to his shoulders. “Let’s just get this done before our heads explode.” Ro considers him for a long moment, then hands him Tima’s map.

Of course I read your book,′ said Laurie, looking aghast at the very idea that he had not. ‘I loved it, just as I love everything you do. You’re a beautiful writer.

ROMANOFF: A gun might as well shoot both ways at once, sir. You want to take out the person in the crosshairs? You have to get okay with taking out the person at the trigger. You don’t get to choose.

When you’re with your family, the only fights you want to be having are – yanno – with your family. But things don’t always work out that way... not when you’re me.

ROMANOFF: Every Russian family line ends in a czar. That’s the only way the genealogist gets paid, sir.

Love is it’s own oblivion; death seems somehow smaller.

Jo wrote not just because she wanted to, which she did, and not just because she needed to earn a wage, which she did, but because she must. Because she needed a way – and a place – to live. Despite the darkness. Even if only a castle in the air.

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we’d had chicken tonight.