« — Ordres du roi, dit l'un des gardes en me regardant avec un rictus amusé. Tu as joué avec son cœur, maintenant il fait de toi un jouet de la Cour. »

He doesn't try to talk to me, and for that, I am grateful. But I can tell, I just can, that he's every bit aware of me as I am of him. Of every breath. Of every step taken across the timy space. Of every blink.
But we don't say a word.
What would I say? Where would I even start?

“Power lies not in those who flaunt it,” Cyrus says, his voice dropping an octave. “For once you lay it out for all to see, it sits there for any to take it. Power lies in those who have built their empire in the shadows without a word being breathed. Power lies in having your masses built, so when the glamorous show falls, the empire rises, already in place.”

"This is my birthright. Blood and terror and allegiance. I'm Alivia Conrath, and this is what it truly means to be a House ruler."

"I have become everything I was Born to be. There's no more prolonging the inevitable. I am a vampire."

“Why is your grandmother such a bitch to me?"

"Did you just call my ancient, wrinkly, half-crazy grandmother a bitch?" Ian laughs.

"Well, that’s what she is!"

Ian shakes his head with another laugh. "Yeah, she is”

« Nous nous embrassons comme s'il n'y avait pas de lendemain, ce qu'il n'y a pas.
Voilà.
C'est la fin de Ian et Alivia. »

"You've taken and taken," I say, completely calm and collected. "And now, I promise that I will take from you what you love most."

"Sometimes fate deals you the horrible and the incredible. We can't run from either."

“Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.”

“There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that kiss, there was even more want. We both wanted to smother out that pain, to not have so many horrible things in the all too recent past, to just be normal, to do the types of things we were supposed to be dealing with besides death and disability.”

“Sometimes I feel like all the crap in the world is building up inside me, like all the bad is just filling me like a balloon. I push it all back, live my happy life.
But sometimes that balloon exposed and all the crap lands on everything around me.”

« Ce que je n'avais pas dit auparavant ne comptait plus. Nous avions tout un avenir devant nous pour dire tout le reste. »

« Pourtant je savais que c'était pour moi l'une de ces expériences qui vous faisait grandir en tant que personne. C'était l'un de ces moments qui vous faisait remettre les choses en perspective et apprécier tout ce que vous aviez. »

“Sam's eyes studied my lips and I studied hers. We each leaned in closer until our foreheads were touching. It felt like currents of electricity were running through the two of us, making me feel like I was going to melt from the intensity.”

“There was a lot about my life that was crappy, now that I couldn't talk. But if I hadn't gotten drunk that night, if I hadn't gotten in that accident, would I have ever had this moment? Lying there in the sun, holding Sam's hand like time didn't exist and the real world couldn't touch us?
Somehow I didn't think so.”

“Nobody is trial-free, but we have a choice. We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.”- Elizabeth Smart

“It was perfect moments like that that made all the bad ones worth living through.”

“I wanted to scream as I stood there, my toes hanging over the edge of the dock. I wanted to let a gut-wrenching howl rip from my disfigured throat toward those clouded skies. I wanted to say every swear word my mother had ever taught me not to say.
I would have settled for a cut-off whimper, just as long as some kind of sound came from my lips.”

“Not being able to talk sucks. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot of times when I almost feel like I'm trapped inside of myself. Like if I don't talk or yell or scream or laugh I'm going to explode. A lot of the time it almost feels like I'm suffocating.”

It had finally taken nearly getting decapitated for Samantha to finally really notice me. I didn't even say, or rather write or wave good-bye as she gave me one more sad look and left, closing the door behind her.

My biggest regret is what I didn't say...Guess that should teach me a lesson about procrastination or something, right? About not putting the really important things in life off? Life can be pretty cruel sometimes.

So when life seems impossible, when it seems so bad that you can't go on, just stop for a second to take a look at all of the things that you do have. I bet the list will grow pretty fast. And even if it doesn't, you have the power to decide if you're going to let the bad or the good take control of your life.

"Some of us aren't meant to ever have what we want in life. And sometimes we need learn to let go of the things we want but can't have."

“You appreciate something more when it was hard to get.”

“Alex gave me a sad smile. “Sometimes being unique is better than being normal. It’s what brought us together.”

“Things felt so out of control right now. It was like I had been strapped to a rocket that was hurtling through life. I couldn’t get a grasp on everything that was happening. Maybe it was more like I had been strapped to a missile. I needed to figure out how to diffuse it and fast, or everything was going to blow up. And then that would be the end.”