Kiersten White Quotes

A brother,” she said, her voice soft.The baby started to cry, a weak, garbled sound that worried the nurse. Lada’s scowl deepened. She slapped a dimpled hand over his mouth. The nurse pulled him away quickly, and Lada looked up, face contorted in rage.“Mine!” she shouted.It was her first word.The nurse laughed, shocked, and lowered the baby once more. Lada glared at him until he stopped crying. Then, apparently satisfied, she toddled out of the room.

~ Kiersten White

Weakness is an irresistible lure.

~ Kiersten White

If you are too weak to stand being hit and too stupid to avoid it, then you deserve more pain.

~ Kiersten White

I’ll be fine. I’m always fine.

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I am so filled with wrong I don’t remember what right is.

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I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing.

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I don’t want to think about things like normal and safe, things I can’t have.

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I am a girl in want of complete destruction.

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My bed is massive (I drown in it, and it doesn’t matter how big the bed is, my nightmares more than fill it)

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I think happy thoughts and feel happy things and I do not let myself near the swirling black edges of the hole that is my soul when I look at them.

~ Kiersten White

There is no such thing as cheating. There is only winning or losing.

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Where did you find that one?I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess.They must be able to sense a kindred spirit.Your one to talk. Don't you have more hordes of the undead to lead in a glorious revolution?Zombies not undead. There's a fine distinction. And no. Right now I'm scouting new talent. The glorious revolution comes tomorrow.

~ Kiersten White

There! I can’t fix the whole country, and it will only last a few days, but I present you with the sun, on behalf of my dreadfully boring magic.”He bows low, holding out his hand. I reach out tentatively, afraid of being burned, but the globe merely hovers above my hand where I slide it on top of Finn’s. It’s golden and deliciously warm and instantly makes me happier and more at ease than I’ve been in weeks.I laugh, delighted, and by the look on Finn’s face you’d think I was the one who had given him an absurd and wonderful gift.

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You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tipout of our favor?”She had no answer.

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Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both.

~ Kiersten White

What is wrong with you?” Radu sounded on the verge of tears. “Why do you have to destroy everything good we have here?”“Because,” Lada said, voice flat with the sudden wave of exhaustion pulling her heavily to the ground. “We have nothing. Can you not see that?”“We have Mehmed!”Lada looked up. The stars were static, still and cold in the night, all the fire gone from the sky. “It is not enough,” she said.

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Did you do this?”“There are other ways to beat someone than with fists.” Radu poked her in the side with a finger.She surprised him by laughing. He stood up straighter, a proud grin at having surprised and delighted Lada bursting across his face. She never laughed unless she was laughing at him. He had done something right!Then the lashings began.Radu’s smile wilted and died. He looked away. He was safe now. And Lada was proud of him, which had never happened before. He focused on that to ignore the sick feelings twisting his stomach as Aron and Andrei cried out in pain. He wanted his nurse—wanted her to hold and comfort him—and this, too, made him feel ashamed.Lada watched the whip with a calculating look. “Still,” she said. “Fists are faster.

~ Kiersten White