Lilith Saintcrow Quotes

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• Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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• What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

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  Fighting, Endure

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• 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.

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  Writing, Soul, Important

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• 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.

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  Two, People, Upset

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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• 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?

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  Jealous, Eye, Grieving

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Listening

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• What you can't run away from, you have to face

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  Running, Faces, Running Away

  Lilith Saintcrow (2011). “Dante Valentine”, p.590, Hachette UK

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• 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—

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  Fighting, Play, Voice

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• But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.

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  Sleep, Breathing, Secret

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• His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath being tainted by the stench of dying cells. The smell of him seemed to coat my abused insides with peace, and flow down into the middle of my body to spread through my veins. I filled my lungs again. While I could, before what was undoubtedly a hallucination vanished.

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  Cells, Smell, Dying

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• I don't believe in getting clothes that just look pretty or that'll fall apart—they have to stand up to a lot of abuse.

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  Believe, Fall, Clothes

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• I guess since the groin is the center of a guy's world, he rarely guesses it isn't the center of yours.

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  Guy, World

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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• His eyes were green chips of flame, and the growl was so thick it blurred the air around him, the sound of a very pissed off skinchanger.

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  Eye, Air, Flames

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• Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes.

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  Eye, Blue, Lasts

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• Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.

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  Cutting, Spoons, Cafeteria

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• I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

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  Death, People, Leaving

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• Some of the djamphir are so pretty it almost hurts to look at them. And it was hard to look without feeling rumpled and messy in comparison.

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  Hurt, Feelings, Looks

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• I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I’ve seen a few.

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  Ghost, Should, Knows

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• Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.

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  Boys, Next, Prettiest

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• Are you listening, little bird?

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  Bird, Listening, Littles

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• The end of a gun looks very big and very back when it's staring you in the face.

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  Gun, Looks, Back When

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• Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

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  Nice, Kids, Pet

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Dark, Needs

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• Okay. I'll deal with Benjamin. You're safe, okay? Nothing's gonna happen." His mouth pulled tight against itself. And now I was having some sort of heart attack. Because when he looked at me like that, my chest started to feel like it was turned inside out. "Promise." And that—the promise, the way he said it with utter certainty—was enough to make me tear up again.

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  Heart, Promise, Tears

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• I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in. No, it was the kind of safe where you sink down in your bed at the end of the day and know you can go to sleep and everything is going to be the same tomorrow.

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  Sleep, Doors, Waiting

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