Top 180 Ann Aguirre Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.”

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52. “Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.”

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53. “We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.”

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54. “Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don’t understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.”

— Ann Aguirre

55. “With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.”

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56. “You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn’t. Instead I had daggers and determination. That would have to do.”

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57. “I have had passionate kisses and fierce ones, kisses so sweet they tasted like pure honey and kisses that cut like knives, but until this moment, I’ve never had one that said both hello and good-bye.”

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58. “I think my head’s a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.”

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59. “My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.”

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60. “I couldn’t help what I’d done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.”

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61. “Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.”

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62. “But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn’t come true unless you worked for them. I’d learned that about the world, if nothing more.”

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63. “Pics, or it didn’t happen.” I invoked the twenty-fourth rule of the Internet.”

— Ann Aguirre

64. “I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.”

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65. “I never felt beautiful unless I was fighting, and even then it was something that went beyond skin and bone into the kinetic joy of successive movements. Kick, thrust, slash. I never doubted Fade at my back. I never faltered.”

— Ann Aguirre

66. “Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.”

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67. “After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.”

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68. “I’m Sirantha Jax, and I have had enough.”

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69. “While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does.”

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70. “We’re broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.”

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71. “True family doesn’t need blood ties; at the end of the day, they are the people who love you best, who laugh and cry with you, and who are always watching out the window when you come home.”

— Ann Aguirre

72. “Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.”

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73. “His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.”

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74. “A huntress never stabbed anything she didn’t want to.”

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75. “But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.”

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76. “I’ve heard if you pretend long enough – or maybe wish hard enough – faking normal becomes real. I’m counting on that. Until then, I’ll carry on.”

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77. “As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the V of another guy’s thighs. Falling, he makes a noise that I can’t say I’ve heard a human utter before, sort of like I imagine a puppy would sound being put through a juicer.”

— Ann Aguirre

78. “Don’t ever stop looking at me. I’m the shadow behind you light, and I might disappear without you.”

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79. “I wanted proof, not promises.”

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80. “Just... for the first time, I want so bad for someone to like me back. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had crushes before, guys I’d never meet or ones I knew would never look at me like that. Sometimes it’s safer to pin your dreams on somebody who’s never going to see you. While it’s sad, it’s also safe. Because there’s no chance he’ll ever break your heart for real.”

— Ann Aguirre

81. “How am I interfering?” he asked softly. “Forget butterfly wings causing a hurricane; you’re a tsunami of nope.”

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82. “Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits – and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.”

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83. “Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.”

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84. “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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85. “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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86. “I feared a love like this – that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you.”

— Ann Aguirre

87. “Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them.”

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88. “He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I’d only just met.”

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89. “There’s always room in the heart for others, too.”

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90. “I imagine the ones we’ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s reassuring, a promise of homecoming.”

— Ann Aguirre

91. “I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.”

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92. “Lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild – I couldn’t think of anything that would horrify my parents more. Therefore, the proposition became exponentially more enticing.”

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

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94. “You were ready to throw your life away,” Kian said. “But are you brave enough to change it?”

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95. “For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.”

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96. “He watched her with an inscrutable expression. “Sometimes you speak such madness with the saddest, sanest eyes I’ve ever seen.” “Yes,” she said, unsmiling. It.”

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97. “I’m sure she felt rejected by Fade, but she hadn’t spent long nights in the tunnels with him, or guarded his back when Freaks were determined to eat him. All she had to offer were maps, and he didn’t need those forever.”

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98. “We shattered, but we put the pieces back together, and I love the way your fractures shine.”

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99. “I should’ve realized I needed to go all the way to hell to find my soul.”

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100. “He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.”

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