Top 90 Alyssa Cole Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Lukas grew more animated. “Yes! I also love Senpai High and Chicken, My Love.” Nya giggled. “I haven’t played the chicken game yet. Is it actually good?” “Yes! I’m playing it now, and there’s actually a really interesting plot about a chicken rebellion. I’m romancing the alpha hen, who takes no nonsense and pecks out the eyes of her enemies.”

— Alyssa Cole

52. “I’m sorry,” he said. She was ready to accept his apology, but then he continued. “Sorry that you think language and culture create deeper ties than the common journeys our ancestors made across the Atlantic, crammed into the filthy holds of ships. That’s a language, too. If you can’t speak it yet, then you are lucky. If you refuse to learn it, then you have no business with the Loyal League.”

— Alyssa Cole

53. “Ledi wondered how people had ever mistaken the Swiss for a peace-loving people. They had invented those knives and they knew how to use them.”

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54. “Charity is well and good, but if you can let a person feel like they’ve done something, if you can make them feel human, that is an even greater gift.”

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55. “She locked the brakes on her chair, gripped the handles, and then pushed herself to a standing position. Her arms shook a bit, but she transferred herself to the couch smoothly, crossing her legs before reaching for the remote resting on the table.”

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56. “She chewed sarcastically, which Thabiso hadn’t even known was possible until that moment.”

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57. “I believe that sometimes a man sees something he wants and covets it, whether it be property or a woman or prestige. Some men don’t see a difference among the three. They do anything they can to get them. A means to an end – is that the saying? For something that helps you get what you want?” She glanced at him and he nodded. “I think maybe I was the means and had confused myself for the end.”

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58. “This misplaced nationalism was another kind of corrupted love, and it was just as unpalatable.”

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59. “Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them.”

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60. “Someone knew about their relationship, and once people knew something existed they could destroy it.”

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61. “The facts come eventually, one of her professors had told their class. but before that, there is instinct. it’s not mumbo-jumbo – we are animals, after all, and instinct is just a tool in our species survival kit.”

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62. “Don’t I get to choose whom I talk to?′ Susie asked, indignant. Malcolm regretted his action instantly. Yes, she was a pawn in his quest for information, but he needn’t treat her as one.”

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63. “Thus, I argue that our nation is ridiculous, and has always been so.”

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64. “She was independent, and would cut anyone who implied otherwise, but acknowledged that her independence was linked to her bank account and inherited wealth: cleaners to help manage the chores that her disability made difficult and time-consuming, personal trainers to help maintain her physical health and make sure she stayed on track in physical therapy, a nutritionist to design meal plans that supposedly benefitted her, and doctors who offered the latest medications to help with her ataxia.”

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65. “Oh, Mrs. Kim’s nephew is gay too! He’s a nice boy. I’ll call her and arrange a coffee date, Jang-Wan.”

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66. “Maybe we can order the Domino’s three for $9.99,” he suggested. “That’s easy.” “I’ll order pizza,” she said. “Real pizza.”

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67. “He knew why she had to ask; the very first time he’d heard about the suffragettes his reflexive response had been a resentment that surprised him. He’d considered himself more evolved than most men, had worked side by side with women in his political groups back home, and his instinct had still been to think that his own interests should be addressed first.”

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68. “This city is held together by hope and insomnia,” she said. “Who needs infrastructure?”

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69. “Most of her daily grind took place at home, where her office was tailored to her needs and she didn’t have to worry about accessibility, or spilling iced coffee on her laptop because straws were easier to ban than the plastics that actually destroyed the environment.”

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70. “Man’s inhumanity to man wasn’t solely regulated by skin color, although it did allow its practitioners to choose their targets more easily.”

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71. “Okay, Fitzwilliam. You’d rather I focus on your behavior before you presented me with this miraculous letter?”

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72. “It seemed the more he cared for her, the more easily he hurt her. Is that what love was? A finely honed blade that would cut at the slightest pressure?”

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73. “They take what they want because nothing is denied to them, Marlie. But taking is different from loving. Problem is, it feels a lot like loving ’til you find out otherwise.”

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74. “Addiction is a hell of a disease. I can’t even feel good that the cops showed up because jail won’t help that guy, either. I regret letting them know he attacked me and sending them after him, though maybe I’ve saved the next person the guy might have encountered.”

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75. “This is ridiculous. You’ve climbed Kilimanjaro. You’ve told the Prime Minister of Belgium to get stuffed. You will not be defeated by a chocolate fondue!”

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76. “What do you think this life holds for you without a husband?”

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77. “When I think of a Black community, the first thing that comes to mind – even if I don’t want it to – is crime. Drugs. Gangs. Welfare. That’s all the news has talked about since I was a kid. Not old people drinking tea. Not complex self-sustaining financial systems that had to be created because racism means being left out to dry.”

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78. “What is the proper response to seeing a child arrested? Another child, the umpteenth child, when you’ve lived here long enough. And worse, arrested for something you can’t be sure they actually did, even if they get found guilty?”

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79. “Theo is on my side. But Drea was on my side, too, wasn’t she? Until money made her betray me.”

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80. “It strikes me that it’s pretty typical that I’d discover a goddamn conspiracy theory, infiltrate a secret research center, kill a bunch of bad guys, and still end up not saving the day.”

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81. “One time when I was about eight, I woke her up to tell her a monster was living under my bed. She told me to get the .22 and shoot it, then take my behind to sleep.”

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82. “You’re just trying to create a false sense of camaraderie because you think it’ll make me trust you. Then you can convince me to sell so you can pocket that sweet, sweet commission.”

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83. “What do you think people fall in love for, if not the hand holding? Do you think marriage is two people walking side by side, never touching lest one of them pull the other down?”

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84. “They can break, but they can’t erase. They can build but they can’t bury us.”

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85. “It seemed love didn’t differentiate between worthiness and unworthiness.”

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86. “You work at the public school. This is going to be an independent school priced just high enough to do the work of segregation for the people who will send their kids there. In the building that was one of the first schools for Black children in America.” Kendra shakes her head. “I doubt it was purposeful, but ain’t that something?”

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87. “The dozens and dozens of plant clippings I’ve been ignoring out here have mostly managed to survive, at least. Some things do that without always needing help. It’s pathetic as hell to be outdone by a cherry tomato bush.”

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88. “Nya was almost overcome by the harsh reverence in his touch. There was so much care in the balance between delicate and demanding.”

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89. “While Sydney makes for a nice fantasy, my reality is being stuck in a co-owned house with a woman who barely acknowledges my existence, let alone our relationship.”

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90. “Oh wait. You’re Kim’s latest? Weren’t you at the house last summer?” the husband asks while Sydney’s gone. “She always picks up the most interesting playthings. I guess you do, too.”

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91. “Your success cannot lie in something so tedious as whether you’re liked.”

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92. “Well, a big part of it is how people addicted to crack were treated back in the day.” I sniff and start walking. “People acted like those addicts were soulless zombies, or jokes, or problems to lock away and take their babies from. Now white people get hooked on something, and we’re building fancy new facilities to research how to fix things.”

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93. “It’s better this way; a warm body in bed is nice in the winter but it’s too damn hot for cuddling in the summer unless you want to run the AC nonstop, and I don’t have AC-nonstop money at the moment.”

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94. “Everyone acts like you’re just supposed to find what you love right away, and if you don’t, just do something you don’t love. And if you do neither of those things you’re being selfish.”

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95. “I need you to channel the confidence of a mediocre white man. I’ll give you mine. We’ll figure it out because we don’t have any other choice.”

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96. “Sunday school teacher why Jesus would forgive Lou for hitting my mom instead of just making him stop it if he really was so powerful.”

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