Ann Aguirre Quotes

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• More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

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  Pain, Surviving, Knows

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.18, Penguin

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• It’s what you do that counts, not what you consider doing.

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  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Wanderlust”, p.84, Penguin

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• I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.

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  Stupid, Smell, Blonde

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.28, Penguin

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• I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

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  Dark, Dust, Sky

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Doubleblind”, p.64, Penguin

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• Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

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  Cutting, Perfect, Despair

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Wanderlust”, p.110, Penguin

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• Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

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  Moving, Past, Way

  Ann Aguirre (2010). “Hell Fire: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.

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  Pain, Distance, Glasses

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.51, Penguin

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• You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.

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  Knows

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.35, Penguin

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• Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.40, Penguin

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• Don’t let them see you weak.

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  Weak, Unemotional, Tarzan Movie

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.213, Macmillan

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• I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

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  Taken, Bye, People

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.237, Penguin

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• My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

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  Lying, Fighting, Skills

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.260, Macmillan

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• There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

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  Fighting, Compassion, Knives

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.244, Macmillan

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• People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

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  People, Trying, Answers

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Sometimes I miss the old me.

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  Missing, Sometimes

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.43, Penguin

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• Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

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  Truth, Secret, Exposed

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.344, Penguin

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• Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.

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  Unique, Love Is, Giving

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.120, Penguin

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• But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

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  Moving, World, Want

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.149, Penguin

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• He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.

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  Moon, Fire, Heat

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.172, Macmillan

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• We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.

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  Block, Legs, Arms

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.194, Macmillan

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• The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.

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  Cutting, Purpose, World

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.246, Macmillan

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• He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

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  People, Saint, Gutters

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Doubleblind”, p.177, Penguin

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• If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.

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  Eye, Winning, Gone

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.167, Macmillan

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• Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.

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  Weak, Made, Terrible

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.11, Macmillan

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• I know you have bad news,” I say softly. “I’m ready for it.” But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.

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  Lying, News, Ready

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.40, Penguin

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