Quotes From "Origin" By Jennifer L. Armentrout

Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the...
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Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the world down to save her. Jennifer L. Armentrout
Me and Katy look adorkable in extraterrestrialhighway shirts. You would...
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Me and Katy look adorkable in extraterrestrialhighway shirts. You would just look stupid. You can thank me later. Jennifer L. Armentrout
We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because...
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We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books. J.A. Konrath
Nancy was so thrilled, I thought she was going to...
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Nancy was so thrilled, I thought she was going to kiss me–and I thought I was actually going to have to hit a chick. Jennifer L. Armentrout
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Love.Such a sweet, simple word. A word I've been searching for my entire life - but especially since I met Eio - and I never knew it. Until ow. When I hear it on his lips, I know as I can never know anything else - no numbers, no formulas, no scientific names - I know it's true. A piece slides into place in my heart, filling a hole I never knew existed. Jessica Khoury
It's time for both of us to be free.
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It's time for both of us to be free. Jessica Khoury
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No! Aguaje is for girls. If a man eats to much of it, he starts to look like a woman. That is the most unscientific thing I've ever heard. Then you haven't met my cousin Jacari. Too much aguaje. Now the mothers use him as wet nurse. Jessica Khoury
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He laughs. "No! Aguaje is for girls. If a man eats to much of it, he starts to look like a woman."" That is the most unscientific thing I've ever heard."" Then you haven't met my cousin Jacari." Eio swings the string of fruit back and forth. " Too much aguaje. Now the mothers use him as wet nurse." My mouth freezes in mid-bite, and I stare at him. "You're teasing me." A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. "Maybe. . Jessica Khoury
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Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully. Dan Brown
Beauty and death, so closely knit together. This seems to...
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Beauty and death, so closely knit together. This seems to be the central theme of my life. Jessica Khoury
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What kind of motel sells condoms?" "My favorite kind of motel? Jennifer L. Armentrout
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Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can. Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity. Jessica Khoury
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I promise you that this isn't going to be our future, Kitten. I will give that to you–a normal life." Her eyes glistened. "I don’t expect a normal life. I just expect a life with you Jennifer L. Armentrout
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Now, when I look into his eyes, I don't see death - but eternity. For the first time in my life, I am looking into someone's gaze and realizing that not only do I understand what's in his eyes...he understands what's in mine. Jessica Khoury
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Remember, Pia, " he whispers. "Perfect is as perfect does. Jessica Khoury
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And we remember that there must be a balance. No birth without death. No life without tears. What is taken from the world must be given back, and from him who takes and does not give back, who would tip the balance of the river, from him all will be taken. No one should live forever, but should give his blood to the river when the time comes so that tomorrow another may live. And so it goes. Jessica Khoury
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We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end. Jessica Khoury
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I can't let the killing go on. No more death, not because of me. This is the only way. You and I both know it. Eio. Jessica Khoury
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How many have died that I might live? And who has died that I might live? Jessica Khoury
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The noblest life is the one laid down for another. Jessica Khoury
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Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going. Dan Brown
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They all seem infected with a vivaciousness that isn't common in our compound, and there are more smiles on their faces than I've ever seen at once. And yet as I watch them, I feel more intensely than ever the knowledge that I'm not one of them. For these moral humans, birthdays are a kind of countdown to the end, the ticking clock of a dwindling life. For me, birthdays are notches on an infinite timeline. Will I grow tired of parties one day? Will my birthday become meaningless? I imagine myself centuries from now, maybe at my three-hundredth birthday, looking all the way back to my seventeenth. How will I possibly be happy, remembering the light in my mother's eyes? The swiftness of Uncle Antonio's steps as he dances? The way my father stands on edge of the courtyard, smiling in that vague, absent way of his? The scene shifts and blues in my imagination. As if brushed away by some invisible broom, these people whom I've known my entire life disappear. The courtyard is empty, bare, covered in decaying leaves. I imagine Little Cam deserted, with everyone dead and gone and only me left in the shadows. Forever. . Jessica Khoury
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How can it be that the modern human mind is capable of precise logical analysis, and yet simultaneously permits us to accept religious beliefs that should crumble beneath even the slightest rational scrutiny? Dan Brown
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WHERE IS MY SON?" Uncle Antonio bellows, levelling the two AK-47s he's holding at the lot of us. "Get away from him, you bastards! Jessica Khoury
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That your eyes are like bits of sky seen through the leaves. And that, like the rain washes the mud from the leaves, you... how did he say it? Oh yes. That you wash the darkness from the world. Jessica Khoury
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He'll burn the world for her Jennifer L. Armentrout
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A body can't live without a heart. And I can't live without you. Jessica Khoury
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I think of the five generations it will take before [Mr. Perfect]'s born, and I want to scream. I want someone now. I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them. Jessica Khoury
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Love is nothing more than elevated levels of dopamine, nor-epinephrine, and other chemicals. But the way Uncle Antionio's face lights up as they dance... I wonder what it would be like to feel that. To let the chemicals of romance take over for just a little while. Then I remember that I am immortal and that my body doesn't work like everyone else's. Who knows if I can even feel love? Jessica Khoury
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It slowly dawns on me what it is, the sensation that has bridged the gap between how I saw the world yesterday and how I see it today. It compensates for my lost keenness and even makes everything around me a little brighter. Hope. Jessica Khoury
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What? You don't think I'm perfect?" I can't resist, because he gets so riled whenever I bring it up. "I can run up to thirty miles without stopping. I can jump six feet in the air. There is not a material in this world sharp enough to pierce my skin. I cannot drown or suffocate. I am immune to every illness known to man. I have perfect memory. My senses are more acute that anyone else's. My reflexes rival those of a cat. I will never grow old" - my voice falls, all smugness gone -"and I will never die. . Jessica Khoury
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... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them. Dan Brown