Quotes from Sophie Jordan

Finally, the sun peeks over the mountains in a thin line of red-gold that edges the dark lake.

I relax my thoughts and absorb everything humming around me. The branches with their gray-green leaves. The birds stirring against the dawn.

My face tightens, cheeks sharpening, subtly shifting, stretching. My breath changes as my nose shifts, ridges pushing out from the bridge. My limbs loosen and lengthen.

A world so afraid of carriers, it makes killers out of the innocent.

recall a chunk of amber in my family's cache of precious stones and gems. My skin looks like that now. Baltic amber trapped in sunlight.

And you keep them all locked in? These visiting carriers? - They're always watched - But not locked in? The honor is specific to me? - You did try to brain me.

His hands lifted and slid over my tear-soaked cheeks, holding me almost tenderly. He looked troubled. There was no other word for it. "I don't know what it is you do to me." I do something to him? His voice continued, a dark little whisper rushing over my lips. "But I'm not going to fight it anymore.

For some reason I hesitate to tell him where I live. I don't want to come across as the spoiled little rich girl that's fallen low. Even if I am.

Yo haría cualquier cosa por ti. Especialmente si eso significa que voy a volver a verte.

No tenía nada. Solo un deseo frenético de aferrarme a algo, a cualquier cosa que me mantuviera a flote en el desierto de mi existencia.

That's just ridiculous," I breathed, awe and lust swirling through me like some heady elixir.

Entonces dejemos a un lado a la comunidad, a los cazadores, a mi familia. Así no estaríamos poniendo a nadie en peligro. - ¿Qué estás diciendo? - Escapémonos juntos.

Mis alas agitaron el aire y me llevaron cada vez más alto. Era como si estuviera alejándome del pueblo a toda velocidad, esforzándome por llegar lo más lejos posible. Cerré los ojos y saboreé el viento fuerte que azotaba mi rostro. Por un instante llegué a pensar en seguir de largo y desvanecerme, esfumarme en el cielo. No volver a descender jamás.

Ahora podrás mirarte la mano en cualquier momento, incluso cuando yo no esté y lo sabrás. - ¿Sabré qué? - Que mi corazón es tuyo, que te amo.

Cassian looks at me intently, his eyes more black than purple right then. The purple only shows itself when he's feeling emotion. A rarity it seems.

Cassian's not a bad sort. He's not . . . quite like his father." Not quite. I pull back, certain my mother has been snatched by aliens. "Are you serious?

I wish for adventure. I wish to matter. I wish for a home.

She'd succumbed to him, crumbled like bits of rocky shoreline against the waves.

A heart of stone could never break. But it could feel fear.

Rage -- that old familiar friend that got him through the hardest of times.

He would be damned if he fell prey to love's debilitating thrall.

But she wasn't a fool either. Better than anyone she knew how easy it was to become a victim. It didn't mean you were weak or stupid. It didn't mean you had done anything wrong. More often than not it meant you were unlucky enough to run smack into a giant douchebag bent on all manner of assholery.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Soft hearts bled, and in their pain they caused grief and havoc.