370 Quotes by Michelle Hodkin

I hate that I never managed to persuade you to watch Buffy. It’s a flaw in you, Mara.

Boys are stupid and girls are trouble.

Other people are usually wrong.

Do not find peace. Find passion. Find something you want to die for more than something you want to live for. If it is your children, then fight not just for your own but for orphans who have no one else. If it is for medicine, then do not just seek out a cure for cancer but search for a cure for AIDS as well. Fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. Speak for them. Scream for them. Live and die for them. You life will not always be a happy one, but it will have meaning.

Knowledge acquired on your own means that you are responsible for it.

I’ll just need your names?” She took out a guest book and a pen, and looked at Jamie expectantly. Something came over Jamie then. He lifted his chin as he said, “Barney.” I cocked my head to the side. “Rubble.” Stella put her head in her hands. “And this,” he said, a smile spreading across his lips as he sidled up to Stella, “is Betty.” He put his hand on her shoulder. She smiled weakly. “And this is our daughter.” Jamie placed a hand on my head. “Bamm-Bamm.” I stepped on his foot.

Where’s Noah?” I asked with steel in my voice. My eyes searched the room, but there was nothing to find. “Why did you tell me he was dead?” Dr. Kells was reaching into a cardboard box by her feet as I spoke. “Because he is.

Her sound – dissonant, aching. Her breath and heartbeat and pulse are my new favorite symphony; I’m beginning to learn which notes will play when, and to interpret them. There is wrath and contentment and fear and desire – but she has never let the last get too far. Yet. The sun sings in her hair as her head tilts, dips toward the page. She arches forward, her shape slightly feline as she draws. My heart beats her name.

Noah acted like he felt nothing because he felt everything. He seemed not to care because he cared too much.