Cynthia Hand Quotes

I wonder if the prayers of angel-bloods count more than regular people's.

I am taking you out. On a date. Before things get crazy.

Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore. - HINDU PROVERB

I guess I always knew that our time together would be fleeting. Ephemeral.

He thought maybe the purest form of love is letting me go.

Through books she could see the world.

All the best things are like that, though, Lex, the most beautiful things. Part of the beauty comes from the fact that they're short-lived.

Public poetry readings were known to be a rough business, especially when presenting new material. A man could lose a lot more than just his pride.

My heart knows right where to go

A word is not simply a word.

Have fun in Idaho. Don't provoke any potato farmers," he says.
"Right. Because that would be bad

Do any of us have a choice where destiny is concerned?

Dearest Jane, Sorry I made you marry a horse. Your father-in-law is trying to kill me. Send help. But

The pen feels unnatural in my hand. It's so much weightier than pencil. Permanent. There are no erasers, in life. - Alexis Riggs

Everybody feels pain

One of my maids forgot the fruit with my breakfast. I became a skunk and sprayed her.

But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.

I'm ready to stop saying good-bye to things. I'm
going to start saying hello.

Are you calling me a liar?" "I'm calling you a storyteller.

You figure out those things that give your life meaning, and you hold onto them. You try to stop worrying about the stuff you can't control.

Have a nice life, Clara," he says. "You deserve to be happy.

So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.

Are you any good at it?"
"Pulling idiots out of the snow? I'm the best.

It's funny how when people change, you forget the way they used to be.

IF SCIENCE TEACHES ANYTHING, IT TEACHES US TO ACCEPT OUR FAILURES, AS WELL AS OUR SUCCESSES, WITH QUIET DIGNITY AND GRACE.

Dominance leads to tyranny

I Survived the Black Plague

I'm looking at you. Why are you always trying to hide how pretty you are?

The man is definitely Tucker, I'd recognise that butt anywhere.

(We are merely narrators, and would hate to make assumptions as to what the reader would find tragic.)

So much, I think then. There is still so very much to lose.

For everyone who knows there was enough room for Leonardo DiCaprio on that door. And

You're very powerful, Clara," Dad says. "Even for a Triplare, you're remarkable. Your connection is strong and steady.

The whole place seemed like the look-don't-touch kind of home. Perfectly manicured. Never enjoyed.

Sorry I'm late. I had to drag some Californians out of a snowbank.

I understand now that nobody could have saved Ty but Ty. There's no one else to blame. Not you. Not me. Ty was holding all the cards.

One of them is probably Michael, I think. All I have to do to find my dad is go to church.

Is it okay to kiss you?" he asks.
"What?"
"I won't get struck by lightning?

You don't know what you can do. You won't know until you try.

I don't know if it's the terrible pain from my shouler or the weight of his emotional baggage, but I feel like I'm losing all sense of reality.

He's giving it all back. I hate how much this hurts me, how much I'm clearly still hanging on to what we had.

In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees.

We'd fight so much less if everyone would just sit down and read. Gifford's

..." Happpiness is wanting what you have

Love is a choice I've made. A verb. And that, because I believe in it, because I act on it is real. Love is a very real thing to me.

Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse.

Clara's mother: Yes, and what could possible be more important to your life right now than Christian?
Clara: I'm going out with Tucker.

We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

Love is a many-splendored thing," she says. "But it is also a pain in the ass.

When I was a kid my mom used to tell me that if i have sex before i was married, my ... junk would turn black and fall off.

I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash.

Brave isn't something you are. It's something you do.

I would lay down my life to protect you, Clara,

That's what I feel. I'd die to protect you.

Because if it's not her fault, it's God's, and I'm not ready to be pissed at the Almighty.

I missed his voice in my head, in my ears. I missed his face. His smile.

Forgiveness is tricky, Alexis, because in the end it's more about you than it's about the person who's being forgiven

This moment was written in the stars, and it is everything he thought it would be.

He's hot. He knows he's hot. I am taken. He knows I am taken.

So he was her husband, Edward might eat her, and no one's hair could rival his.

It's your mind you have to train, like your mom said that one time, you have to separate yourself from all the crap, get down to the core, focus.

Everything changes. That's the only constant.

I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment.

Today it's just us and the wind.

Sir Tucker," I say suddenly, interrupting Angela.
"Yeah?"
"I believe the correct response is, 'yes, Your Majesty,

Crap. No one's ever called me dorkina before. Derivative of dork. Not good.

It's all me, the human part, the angel part. I love Tucker Avery.

Don't do that," he says. "Don't regret us. I don't. I won't, ever.

There's death all around us. Everywhere we look. 1.8 people kill themselves every second. We just don't pay attention. Until we do.

I'm in love with Tucker Avery.

Where are you?" I wheeze into the floor. "Where did you go?

Chicks dig historians.

I don't particularly want Kay to be a good person. I'm perfectly comfortable thinking about her as the wicked witch

Nothing can remind you of your own fragile place in the universe so powerfully as someone your own age dying suddenly, here one minute, gone the next.

Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."
Clara: "What?"
Tucker: "You.

If it's all about desire, why do you not desire to be a man?

Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences.

Nice tree, he says.
That boy has unexpected depth.

We can take this "we belong together" thing slow

She shrugs."Men"
"Men."
"If we can send one man to the moon, why can't we send them all there?

But maybe if he got close to me I could feel something. Maybe I could cry and the ache would go away.

I have a sense that no matter what, no matter what darkness lies ahead, there is nothing that can overcome this power.

You must learn to deal with the facts.

There it is," says Christian, looking at me with something like admiration.
"There what is?"
"The smile. You always smile when you ski

Armies aren't very good about carrying libraries with them. I can't imagine why. We'd fight so much less if everyone would juste sit down and read

We've got lots of time to fall in love.

A light comes on in his eyes. "Sure, why not? A date with Queen Elizabeth." He smiles.

There I go, Clara the parrot. I belong on a pirate's shoulder.

And I'm thankful, in that moment, full to the brim with gratitude that Christian is with me. He's here. My partner. My best friend.

I should have fought for you, Clara, even if I would have had to fight you to fight for you. I should have never let you go.

The GWBR?" Jane shook her head. "I don't believe it exists.

So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.

Hasta la vista, baby, he tells me, and I shake my head and smile at how adorably dorky he can be. His Spanish only comes from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

We are each a part of the universe.

It's like watching a train wreck, this conversation.

Clara," he says quietly. "I think it's time you told me about what happened in Italy.

See, that's what I like about you, Carrots You're not fussy.

Tucker Avery wants to be my friend.

If it is a gift, I do not deserve it. If it is a curse, I do not deserve it.

Poor King Edward, now under the ground.
Hacked his lungs out. They've yet to be found.