Top 200 Michelle Hodkin Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Names?” the receptionist asked us. “Jesus,” Jamie answered. “Mary,” said Stella. “Satan,” I said as I walked past her and pushed open the door to Ira Ginsberg’s office.”

— Michelle Hodkin

152. “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

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

— Michelle Hodkin

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

— Michelle Hodkin

155. “Today, tonight, tommorrow, forever. I was made for you.”

— Michelle Hodkin

156. “Don’t. Don’t ask me why. It’s annoying. I want to. That’s it. That’s all. So let me.”

— Michelle Hodkin

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

— Michelle Hodkin

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

— Michelle Hodkin

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

— Michelle Hodkin

160. “You scare the filling out of her doughnut.”

— Michelle Hodkin

161. “I kiss the inside of each knee and up, farther, the roughness of my cheek raising redness on her skin.”

— Michelle Hodkin

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

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163. “We were not a foursome. For that, we’d need to be bonded by secrets, and I shared none of mine. Secrets cut you off from everyone else, so I would always suggest the vast majority of our exploits to mask that I never could quite connect with them in the first place. Insert a stifled sob here, would you?”

— Michelle Hodkin

164. “You can’t be fixed. You can’t be saved.”

— Michelle Hodkin

165. “Literally a disaster.”

— Michelle Hodkin

166. “I love the person I am with you. You recognize somebody in me who I want to be, who I wish I were, and I am him when I am around you.”

— Michelle Hodkin

167. “My father might be right. If I lost Noah, I might just lose my mind.”

— Michelle Hodkin

168. “And then I turn away from them all, away from my father, away from the sodden remains of my family, to Mara.”

— Michelle Hodkin

169. “I believe that every person has a responsibility to leave the world a better place than he found it.”

— Michelle Hodkin

170. “Do I have your attention?” the voice asked. I knew that voice. But I couldn’t believe I was hearing it. “Noah’s alive,” Jude said.”

— Michelle Hodkin

171. “Your husband is dead because you killed him,” the professor said, stunning me into silence. “You are not what Simon Shaw thought you were,” he added softly. My eyes brimmed with tears. “And what was that?” “A cure.” “So, what am I?” His gaze dropped. “A disease.”

— Michelle Hodkin

172. “The choices you make will change you.”

— Michelle Hodkin

173. “His voice was low and rough and I wanted to swallow it.”

— Michelle Hodkin

174. “It has been said that there must be a villain for every hero, a demon for every angel, a monster for every god. Despite what we are, I do not believe this. I have seen the villainous act heroic, and men called heroes act villainous. The ability to heal does not make one good any more than the ability to kill makes one evil. Kill the right people, and you become a hero. Heal the wrong ones, and you become a villain. It is our choices that define us, not our abilities.”

— Michelle Hodkin

175. “There are some things the people you love should never see you do.”

— Michelle Hodkin

176. “Nope,′ Jamie said without hesitation, which is how I knew he was lying. But I understood why. Sometimes lies are easier to believe.”

— Michelle Hodkin

177. “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

178. “An aural fingerprint, distinctly her own, distinctly Mara.”

— Michelle Hodkin

179. “Other people are usually wrong.”

— Michelle Hodkin

180. “Rows upon rows of books, lining built-in shelves that stretched from the floor to the ceiling.”

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181. “I would say you’ll make a liar out of me, but I was one long before we met.”

— Michelle Hodkin

182. “Tonight. And I would give him tomorrow, and everyday after, for as long as I possibly could. It wasn’t enough for me, but it was enough for him.”

— Michelle Hodkin

183. “Imagine, if you will, a sharper, crueler version of Maggie Smith, and you’ll have some semblance of an idea of my grandmother. Add an unhealthy dose of botulinum toxin, and there’s your visual.”

— Michelle Hodkin

184. “We are responsible for everything we do and do not do.”

— Michelle Hodkin

185. “I’ll just need your names?” She took out a guest book and a pen, and looked at Jamie expectantly. Something came over Jamie then. He lifted his chin as he said, “Barney.” I cocked my head to the side. “Rubble.” Stella put her head in her hands. “And this,” he said, a smile spreading across his lips as he sidled up to Stella, “is Betty.” He put his hand on her shoulder. She smiled weakly. “And this is our daughter.” Jamie placed a hand on my head. “Bamm-Bamm.” I stepped on his foot.”

— Michelle Hodkin

186. “Squawking pierced the funeral’s hushed atmosphere as hundreds of black birds flew overhead in a rush of beating wings. They settled on a cluster of leafless trees that overlooked the parking lot. Even the trees were wearing black.”

— Michelle Hodkin

187. “I wouldn’t be surprised if this were a postcoital smoke, the object of his brief affection tucking himself back into his pants or her shirt in some corridor.”

— Michelle Hodkin

188. “The villain is the hero of her own story.”

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189. “I’d wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself... I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I didn’t think that anymore.”

— Michelle Hodkin

190. “That was what I would miss the most, I realized. Just being able to tell him things. There was still so much to say.”

— Michelle Hodkin

191. “It’s a long story that involves copious quantities of alcohol and Lolita.”

— Michelle Hodkin

192. “I know how you love endings, so I will write one for you.”

— Michelle Hodkin

193. “I hate that I never managed to persuade you to watch Buffy. It’s a flaw in you, Mara.”

— Michelle Hodkin

194. “Be careful what you wish for.”

— Michelle Hodkin

195. “I think part of him actually wants to be hated. He only ever shows you what he wants you to see. He’s so closed off-it made me feel like he’d never tell.”

— Michelle Hodkin

196. “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, how could I ever love anyone else?”

— Michelle Hodkin

197. “Time was supposed to heal all wounds, but how could it when Jude kept picking the scab?”

— Michelle Hodkin

198. “If we had learned anything concrete by now, we had learned this: we weren’t alone. There are other like us out there. People that think they’re just strange or different or troubled or depressed or sick, They might just be. But they might also be something more. They could become one of us.”

— Michelle Hodkin

199. “But maybe someone like us will read it and they’ll know they’re not alone.”

— Michelle Hodkin

200. “You’re my preferred method of self harm.”

— Michelle Hodkin