I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong. Lilith Saintcrow More Quotes by Lilith Saintcrow More Quotes From Lilith Saintcrow Better to be strong than pretty and useless. Lilith Saintcrow being-strongstrengthinspirational What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure. Lilith Saintcrow endurefighting Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs. Lilith Saintcrow importantsoulwriting What you can't run away from, you have to face Lilith Saintcrow running-awayfacesrunning I sensed him leaning forward. It's weird to feel someone's attention on you that way, like you're the only thing in the world they're listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking about what they're going to say next. Lilith Saintcrow listeningpeoplethinking People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots. They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don’t live up to their snap judgments. Lilith Saintcrow upsettwopeople His thumb stroked my cheek. My eyes half-closed. When he spoke next, it was very softly, his voice an almost-physical caress against my whole body. My flesh tightened like a harpstring. I swallowed hard against the wave of liquid heat. "How can I possibly be jealous when I know you spent your time grieving for me, Dante? Lilith Saintcrow jealouseyegrieving Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch. Lilith Saintcrow nicepetkids Are you listening, little bird? Lilith Saintcrow listeninglittlesbird If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed. Lilith Saintcrow darkjobsneeds That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you. Lilith Saintcrow heartachefunny-thingshurt Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex. Lilith Saintcrow humanssexlooks Death did not play favorites—He loved all equally. What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure . The god's voice—not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind— Lilith Saintcrow voicefightingplay most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us. Lilith Saintcrow growing-upprocesswant Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes. Lilith Saintcrow lastseyeblue He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds. Lilith Saintcrow elephantsskinslaughing You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends." Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it. Lilith Saintcrow debtcountingmy-friends It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized. Lilith Saintcrow i-realizeddoubttwo Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it? Lilith Saintcrow dungeonsshould-havestones I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living. Lilith Saintcrow stupidairgoes-on
