36 Quotes About Debut-author

Though her freckled, tawny skin gleamed with sweat and melting snow dripped down her cloak, cold chills skittered up Emery’s spine. She was on fire, even in the coldest winter days, but the blue-clad guards’ presence below made her feel cold.

Gold and power and authority were too great of gods to be ignored.

Surely we had our flaws as kin, too, for nobody’s perfect, but we at least showed respect, honour, candour...

Hate is a lot like love. It's warm and fills you up until every part of you is tingling to release it.

I don't like seeing myself on camera." But that's not it--that sounds shallow, like I'm worried I'll look fat or something. "It's like somebody is walking on my grave. TV immortalizes you. The episodes are what my family would watch if I died.

This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I'm filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I've jumped off a cliff, but I know that if I don't look down, I'll be just fine.

This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.

You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right.

Somehow, the pain and rage and confusion of the past eighteen years dissolves until all that is left is this one perfect moment; unscripted, unedited, it's ours and ours alone.