Maya > Books: thriller‎ (19)

“Those pure, innocent girls kept from anything that defined them in the name of protection, while their brothers carried on as if there was nothing to fear. But for them, there wasn’t. They would never understand the inherent trepidation that came as a result of being wrapped in girl flesh.”

"People no longer identified themselves by ethnicity. We were no longer Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, or biracial. We had become a beautiful multiracial generation. A generation that came to be known as One World."

“My understanding of the true nature of the world was undergoing a seismic shift. Or was I merely shedding adult illusions for the fantastic truth that every child knows? In spite of one bizarre turn of events after another, in spite of all my rushing around and my reckless surrender to the pull of mysterious forces, I sensed that I wasn’t falling away into a new reality. Instead, I felt as though I might be coming home to the world I knew a long time ago, where monsters lurking in the closet weren’t always imaginary, where a desperate but secret war was being waged by two armies in disguise, where victory had nothing to do with conquering territory, where the battlefield was the human heart, the spoils of war the human soul.”

“I have always been an optimist, because pessimists seldom have any fun and usually fret their way into one of the horrible fates they spend their lives worrying about… the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed.”

“How strange is the world and all life in it. How strange am I. How much stranger still—mysterious, wonderful—that there is a world at all, or me, or you.”

"They say love is blind. Blind to white lies and small failings. Blind to pain. Blind to cruelty. They are right. I was blind to it all."

"I had broken my life. Snapped it clean in two. Into a then and now, a before and after. All because I’d loved the wrong woman."

"I wanted out. Wanted oblivion and quiet darkness. wanted an end to the pain and guilt and fear. My life had been so full of fear and sadness for so long."

"I could end it all right now. I should. But then she’d win. And no one will ever know what she did."

"...you expect me to keep your secret. To lie to my friends and betray my colleagues to do so. To risk their lives... For an Aeriel. An Aeriel who's been lying to me - making a fool out of me - all this while."

"There was a time when I needed you... That time is long gone. I don't need your charity. The only thing I need from you now, is vengeance."

"Now there was a sight he had never thought he'd see. Exiles working with humans to hunt down their own kind."

"He was probably minutes away from death. And yet, somehow, he hadn't felt so alive in a long time."

"It'd been a long time since he'd dared hope for anything so glorious. Tomorrow would bring it's own problems. But he was going to relish this - this moment - for all he was worth."