Top 200 Michelle Hodkin Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Mara’s hand is in my hair as I lean my head back against the cracked leather seat, eyes closed, mind ruminating.”

— Michelle Hodkin

102. “Don’t be careful with me,” he said. “Because I won’t be careful with you.”

— Michelle Hodkin

103. “Most people are like sand, the impact of their lives washed away by years. They cause no lasting damage, no lasting benefit. You are not most people. You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow.”

— Michelle Hodkin

104. “I waged my heart on you and lost, again and again and, but still I would do it. I could never bet on anyone else.”

— Michelle Hodkin

105. “The freaks shall inherit the earth.”

— Michelle Hodkin

106. “I so badly needed to self-destruct.”

— Michelle Hodkin

107. “When you love someone, you’re saying you trust them. You’re handing them your heart and trusting them to protect it. To keep it safe.”

— Michelle Hodkin

108. “A half-truth is a whole lie, my mother says.”

— Michelle Hodkin

109. “I want to shake them for their ignorance and scream that their Sistine Chapel is filled with cracks.”

— Michelle Hodkin

110. “Do not find peace. Find passion. Find something you want to die for more than something you want to live for.”

— Michelle Hodkin

111. “I pointed to a low bowl filled with what purported to be stew, but then Noah said, “Are you going to point, or are you going to eat?” “I just like to know what I’m putting in my mouth before I swallow.” Noah arched an eyebrow, and I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.”

— Michelle Hodkin

112. “You are a girl, Mara. A girl blessed and cursed.”

— Michelle Hodkin

113. “Do not find peace. Find passion. Find something you want to die for more than something you want to live for. If it is your children, then fight not just for your own but for orphans who have no one else. If it is for medicine, then do not just seek out a cure for cancer but search for a cure for AIDS as well. Fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. Speak for them. Scream for them. Live and die for them. You life will not always be a happy one, but it will have meaning.”

— Michelle Hodkin

114. “But Noah was like the Velveteen Rabbit. I would love his whiskers off, love him until he turned gray, until he lost shape. I would love him to death. And he would let me. Gladly.”

— Michelle Hodkin

115. “This. You. Are enough.”

— Michelle Hodkin

116. “And as I watched her dying, I don’t remember the look of surprise on her face or the fear in her eyes, or seeing any sadness in her at all. I remember seeing relief there instead.”

— Michelle Hodkin

117. “I kind of want to see Mara Crucio their asses.”

— Michelle Hodkin

118. “And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don’t have.”

— Michelle Hodkin

119. “I think Stella’s a little scared of you,” he said, while I changed for bed in the bathroom. “And you’re not?” I called out. “Of you? You have the soul of a kitten.” I popped my head out of the bathroom. “A kitten.” “An assassin kitten.”

— Michelle Hodkin

120. “You’ll love him to ruins. Unless you let him go.”

— Michelle Hodkin

121. “I twisted my arm to curl him behind me and he unfolded there, the two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.”

— Michelle Hodkin

122. “I didn’t know enough to hold myself back. Now I was too aware, hyperaware, and so the fear chained me.”

— Michelle Hodkin

123. “I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it.”

— Michelle Hodkin

124. “It isn’t your fault. It’s nothing you did. You cannot change who you are, any more than you can change black eyes to blue. You can only accept it. If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scars. But you will survive them. I have survived many. You will do good things you will regret, and bad things you won’t, but you must keep going.”

— Michelle Hodkin

125. “Lightning flickered through the windows that wouldn’t release us and made monsters of our shadows against the wall.”

— Michelle Hodkin

126. “One little joke involving hemorrhagic fever and they brand you ’unstable.”

— Michelle Hodkin

127. “Apparently she judged the souls of the dead by weighing their hearts against a feather; if she deemed a soul unworthy, it was sent to the underworld to be consumed – by this bizarre crocodile-lion-hippopotamus creature, it seems.”

— Michelle Hodkin

128. “We get one life, Mara. You might live forever and I might die tomorrow, but right now we’re both here. And I want to spend the time I have with you.”

— Michelle Hodkin

129. “Even while sleeping, she looks like a deadly goddess, an iron queen. Mara is anything but peaceful – even in repose she is a silky gray cloud, bright with the promise of lightning. I will not find peace with her. But there will be no greater passion.”

— Michelle Hodkin

130. “We don’t have to be what they want.”

— Michelle Hodkin

131. “I don’t know how our story will end, but I know how it will start.”

— Michelle Hodkin

132. “My brother spent a large portion of the agonizingly slow drive to school banging his forehead on the stearing wheel.”

— Michelle Hodkin

133. “The colors shone, burned through. Sienna and crimson and gold, and I swallowed my name from his mouth and he kissed his from my lips, and I was incandescent as I tripped into- bliss.”

— Michelle Hodkin

134. “You have her smile,” people said, and I remember looking into the casket at her face, wondering if that meant I’d taken it from her, and the wave of guilt descended on me.”

— Michelle Hodkin

135. “Girly, I’ve been driving since before you were even a twinkle in your mother’s eye.”

— Michelle Hodkin

136. “I’m not making you hate me. I’m making you love me.”

— Michelle Hodkin

137. “The closer anyone gets to you, the more at risk they are of falling under your shadow, or being consumed by your flame.”

— Michelle Hodkin

138. “My chest, Stella’s hip, Jamie’s left ass cheek.”

— Michelle Hodkin

139. “Sometimes, Noah, I feel an overwhelming urge to punch you in the face.”

— Michelle Hodkin

140. “There were days when I felt that a dragon slept inside me, and exhaled poison with every breath. I flirted with suicide more times than I can count. But I know now why I never did it. I was saving that day for you.”

— Michelle Hodkin

141. “He didn’t look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noah – sarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah – cared. And that made him real.”

— Michelle Hodkin

142. “I stifled a yawn. “It’s too early to be such an asshat, Daniel.”

— Michelle Hodkin

143. “I looked closely at it for the first time; the charm was just a slim line of silver – half of it hammered into the shape of a feather, the other half a dagger. It was interesting and beautiful; just like him.”

— Michelle Hodkin

144. “I’ll love you to ruins.”

— Michelle Hodkin

145. “I’d rather he not know the depths of my crazy.”

— Michelle Hodkin

146. “I’m chasing oblivion I will never find.”

— Michelle Hodkin

147. “Mara is unstrung, unbound, unleashed in my arms.”

— Michelle Hodkin

148. “What had happened would always be part of us, but we’d survived it. We were still here. The curtain would fall ons us eventually, but I would fight to keep it up as long as I could. For now it was just us, together, and there was nothing in our way.”

— Michelle Hodkin

149. “I feel like I’m going to catch hepatitis just standing here.”

— Michelle Hodkin

150. “It’s like you’re a mirror and you show me who I want to be, instead of who I am.”

— Michelle Hodkin