36 Quotes by Stephanie Oakes

That’s all religion is. Strategy.

Moments like this occurred more and more frequently, and I think that was the biggest difference between us. That we could look at the same stars in the same sky, but not have the same questions. Not want the same answers.

Ava: – Gentle. I was never taught to be gentle. When I sang, I did so loudly. When I played sports, I had to win, otherwise what was the point? My mother would never tell me to quiet myself for a boy. She would tell me to never change for anyone, because the people you change for are the people who control you.

Molly: – You killed people. […] You made them disappear, and didn’t even let the families hold funerals. Heinrich Werner: – That was the machine, not me.Molly: – You were part of the machine.

Anger is a kind of murder you commit in your heart.” If this is true, I’m a daily murderer. My heart is more full of blood than I ever imagined.

That’s how you avoid becoming a moth,” he says. “Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.

Jude used to try to make me laugh, and when I’d crack a smile he’d keep the joke going, like breath on an ember, making it grow into a fit of giggles that’d echo around the whole forest and make all the birds in the trees quiet.

For years, we had stood on opposite sides of a divide, calling across because we could never jump the distance. This was the moment we discovered that, if we both shifted our weight forward, if we abandoned our fear of the drop below, not looking down, we could touch the tips of our fingers together. And though it wasn’t much, in that moment, it was enough.

I think you should be angry if you’re angry. But it’s also true that hate has a way of hurting you more than the person you’re hating.