70 Quotes by Ryan Graudin

Now that I know, I can't unsee her girlness. The turned curve of her nose, the slant of her cheeks. How her eyelashes curl up just so. It would be a mistake to think that any of these things mean she's fragile. The very fact that she's sitting here, eight days after being stabbed, is testament to that.

It never made sense to my young mind, how a hurt from so long ago could keep a man from walking right. Stay with him for the rest of his life. But now that I am older, now that I've fought my own wars and fired my own guns, I understand.

But I remember the way Jin Ling made her wishes. How she said I wish we could be together forever with the bite of a tigress. Nothing would be impossible enough to keep her wishes from being fulfilled. Not even the Walled City.

He did not make me. He did not break me.

It will take time to heal. Just like all the others.

No. Not-Adele was not Adele. She'd always ever been Yael - a girl who, when she touched his fingertips, made his heart beat a dozen times faster than it ever had in this fräulein's arms. Yael, who believed no person's life was small. Yael, who made him want to be more, but in a way that mattered.

But this...her...she's more than warmth. She's fire, a soul, a name. Mei Yee reverbs through my head, my veins. Lodges like shrapnel in the far reaches of my chest. More powerful than a pound of C-4. Uncontrollable.

Chaos was inevitable. Might as well roll with it.

I’m tired of fixing things that always break.