41 Quotes by Maya Bode

Honestly, I’m sorry you have no more power over me, but I’m not scared of you anymore. It’s just not worth my time.

Jayden shoved through the crowd and pulled me to my feet. I hadn’t realized I was crying until he wiped a tear from my face. “What happened?

That was the problem with training to be a spy and developing your senses to the point that I had. Now, I was constantly alert -- even when I wanted to relax, I couldn’t. I was always waiting for someone to jump out and attack me.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.” “I don’t care how desperate you are.

I can’t tell you the things I know,” I repeated. “Why not?” “They aren’t my secrets to tell.

I was going to die. I was going to die, right now, right here, before I even had a chance to thoroughly apologize to anyone for what I’d done...before I had a chance to forgive myself. I wasn’t even going to leave with a bang, one final act of dignity or at least the thought that I still belonged somewhere; I would die without even the simple acceptance that I’d done everything I could. Tears welled in my eyes, but I didn’t let them fall. I didn’t want to die crying.

They might as well have been trying to fit a squirrel through the eye of a needle.

You underestimate us, Josephine,” Taylor smiled. “A few guards, chains, and a locked door can’t keep a family apart.

I tried to blink back the tears that just kept coming. Eventually, I gave up and let my sight be obscured.