Quotes from Ilsa J. Bick

You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

Raccoon." She saw Ellie put a hand to her mouth to cover the giggles and then looked back at Tom. "Like, you caught it?" "Well, it sure didn't get Fed-Exed [...]

What about study hall? Shouldn't I go to the library? "What for, Ms. Lord?" Mr. anderson said. "You're with me

This Army of Light was mine. I had summoned it. I had DRAWN it. Could I have stopped it? I don't know. The truth is, I didn't want to.

desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.

Thinking about all that was exhausting. Despite the hours I'd spent getting shrink-wrapped, I still wasn't sold that talking did a whole heck of a lot except let everyone else know what was going on inside your head. It's not like talking ever made anything go away.

She'd drawn the moment of her death. No. NO. She'd DRAWN herself to death.

I didn't throw the paper away. Maybe I should have. Oh, the things you know in retrospect.

Would it interest you, at all, to know that he did try to scramble back onto the ice? That his hands grabbed and his fingers clawed, but the ice—that treacherous, greedy, teasing ice—kept breaking and breaking and breaking, sketching a path straight for me? And that when he saw what would happen to me, he stopped trying to save himself? Would you believe that someone could love anyone that much?

Staying alive just to stay alive isn't enough.

Neither was evil. They were both true to who they are.

A chronic headache muttered in her temples, but like Barrett said, no one ever died from pain. True, but some days you didn't much enjoy living either.

How people react is going to be based on how you react.

Something my shrink once said bubbled up from memory: believing that everything is your fault is like saying the world revolves around you and that is pure narcissism and no less destructive.

Sometimes when you're sad, it's easier to be angry.

How come adults got away with saying things that would sound rude coming out of her mouth?

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think.

Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

As long as you're alive, there is hope...Hope is saying that I will live one more day, and that is a blessing, too.

Don't you find it fascinating, boy-o, that the people who call on God the most believe in God the least?

You only want to brawl. You want a fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes," said Jess.

Best you shake the dust off your sandals, girl," Jess said. "The past is past

Clinging to science was, when you got right down to it, just a god of a different flavor.

How could you get past a splinter that had worked into your eye and scratched deeper every time you blinked?