A few new ones tonight ...
"'The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation,' she said. 'Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom ... that is very hard indeed.'"
-from Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan's Curse (Book 3) by Rick Riordan
"'We know you, Annabeth,' the left face said. 'We know what you wrestle with every day. We know your indecision. You will have to make your choice sooner or later. And the choice may kill you.'"
-from Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4) by Rick Riordan
"You see, in times of trouble, even gods can lose faith. They start putting their trust in the wrong things, petty things. They stop looking at the big picture and start being selfish. But I'm the goddess of marriage, you see. I'm used to perseverance. You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind."
-from Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4) by Rick Riordan
"Getting something and having the wits to to use it ... those are two different things."
-from Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4) by Rick Riordan
"I'd had more than my fair share of near-death experiences; it wasn't something you ever really got used to. It seemed oddly inevitable, though, facing death again. Like I really was marked for disaster. I'd escaped time and time again, but it kept coming back for me. Still, this time was different from the others. You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers -- the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no option. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give to your beloved, how could you not give it?"
-from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
"Because I was so fragilely human, so accident-prone, so much a victim to my own dangerous bad luck, apparently I needed a tank-resistant car to keep me safe."
-from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
"But my idiocy would not ruin anything else tonight. I would put this away, shove it in a drawer and lock it up to deal with later. There would be plenty of time to flagellate myself for this, and nothing I could do now would help."
-from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
"I wasn't freaking out because I thought we were making a mistake. Not at all. I was freaking out because I had no idea how to do this, and I was afraid to walk out of this room and face the unknown ... How did people do this -- swallow their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had?"
-from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
"My first instinct, the product of a lifetime of insecurities was to wonder what I had done wrong. I thought through everything that had happened, but I could find any sour note in the memory. It had all been simpler than I'd expected; we'd fit together like corresponding pieces, made to match up. This had given me a secret satisfaction ... Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him."
-from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
"Children, in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping with some form of goo. I'd never had much to do with them. When I'd dreamed of Renee providing me with a brother, I'd always imagined an older brother. Someone to take care of me, rather than the other way around."
-from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
"Because I was so fragilely human, so accident-prone, so much a victim to my own dangerous bad luck, apparently I needed a tank-resistant car to keep me safe."
-from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
"And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."
-A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare (Act II, Scene i)
"Why didn't I just walk away? Oh right, because I'm an idiot."
-from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
"I understand why you blond vampire is so cold -- in the figurative sense. She's focused. She's got her eyes on the prize, right? Because you always want the very most what you can never, ever have."
-from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
"Seemed like maybe getting your choices taken away from you wasn't the very worst thing in the world ... So how do you look for a random soul mate in a crowd? Well, first, I needed a crowd."
-from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
"Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment."
-from Empire by Orson Scott Card
