17 Quotes by Wildbow

This isn’t a duality. I’m not one of the Balfour Academy soldiers, drinking a potion to become virile, ugly, and monstrously strong. There isn’t a lever inside me that determines which of me you’re talking to at once. A knife can cut or stab. The label doesn’t change. It’s still a knife.

I’ve faced down a handful of the scariest sons of bitches in the world, I’ve been intentionally trapped in a burning house, blinded, had my back broken, I’ve been paralyzed and at the mercy of no less than two lunatic tinkers, and I’ve killed a man, I thought.  And going back to school stirs up old feelings of anxiety.

I’m thankful you trusted me when it counted. That we got here. But last night, the dream, the people I talked to… I owe them. I have people I need to look after, and one of those people is me.

Take away what they gave me, what they made me into, every place I really know, the people I love and the people I hate, and I’m not sure what’s left

Her shoulder touched his as she leaned a little closer. She turned to look the other direction, and her hair brushed his ear.The entirety of his focus, every inch of his being, was consumed in that oval-sized point of contact, where her shoulder shared its warmth with his.

I slept, but it was less like parking a car and more like running one into a ditch.

I’m me. Manipulation is me. I toy with people. I toyed with her for years and she called it a lovely romance that she won’t ever be able to live up to. Because that’s how she operates and that’s how I operate and that’s how we function as a pair.

When you left the room, she said Hayle warned her about you, after your first kiss. That she only just now realized why. It’s not because you’ll cross the line. It’s because you’re clever enough to redefine the line.

When do I get to put this behind me? When do I get forgiven or get to forgive myself?You're asking me? NeverI don't believe in forgive & forget. Not for the things I've done. not for what others have done to people I care about. Not for what's been done to me.The moment we forget is the moment we allow those wrongs to be done again. Forgiveness is the easy way out. Less to carry.