Quotes From "The Retribution Of Mara Dyer" By Michelle Hodkin

Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others. Michelle Hodkin

I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie’s cheek.“ F U C K, ” he shouted, wiping it off. “What if you killed me! ” He threw a Skittle at my face. It hit my forehead.“ Ow! ”“ Taste the rainbow bitch. Michelle Hodkin

I slipped in and out of consciousness as time stretched and flowed around me. Dreams and reality blurred, but I liked the dreams better. Noah was in them. I dreamed of us, walking hand in hand down a crowded street in the middle of the day. We were in New York. I was in no rush– I could walk with him forever–but Noah was. He pulled me alongside him, strong and determined and not smiling. Not today. We wove among the people, somehow not touching a single one. The trees were green and blossoming. It was spring, almost summer. A strong wind shook a few steadfast flowers off of the branches and into our path. We ignored them. Noah led me into Central Park. It was teeming with human life. Bright colored picnic blankets burst across the lawn, the pale, outstretched forms of people wriggling over them like worms in fruit. We passed the reservoir, the sun reflecting off its surface, and then the crowd began to thicken. They funneled into a throbbing mass as we strode up a hill, over and through. Until we could see them all below us, angry and electric. Noah reached into his bag. He pulled out the little cloth doll, my grandmother’s. The one we burned. . Michelle Hodkin

You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow. Michelle Hodkin

For some reason I think of the first time I saw her, kicking the shit out of the vending machine that refused to release her candy. Before that day, every hour of my life had been exactly like the one before it. Relentlessly boring. Painfully monotonous. But then she walked out of my waking nightmare and into my life, a complete mystery from Second One. Her presence was a problem I needed to solve, a problem that finally interested me. And then, somehow, she made me interested in myself. Mara began as a question I needed to answer, but the longer I'd known her, the less I felt I actually knew. She was constantly surprising, infinitely complex. Unknowable. Unpredictable. I have never met anyone more fascinating in my life, and all the time in the world wouldn't be enough to ever know her. Michelle Hodkin

If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares. Michelle Hodkin

I'd wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself... I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I didn't think that anymore Michelle Hodkin

I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her. Michelle Hodkin

Does anyone know how to start a fire?" Blank stares. "So we can't start a fire, " [Jamie] said. "We can't fly. We can't create a force field. We are the most bullshit superheroes. Michelle Hodkin

Jamie said in that voice of his, "You never saw us."" I never saw you, " the driver repeated, sounding dazed. "You drove this astonishingly hot underwear model from south Texas. You wanted to lick his abs." "I wanted to lick his abs."" You're such an asshole, " Stella muttered as she climbed out of the cab. Michelle Hodkin

It's like you're a mirror and you show me who I want to be, instead of who I am. Michelle Hodkin

You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough. Michelle Hodkin

The ability to heal does not make one good any more than the ability to kill makes one evil. Kill the right people, and you become a hero. Heal the wrongs ones, and you become a villain. It is our choices that define us, not our abilities Michelle Hodkin

I kind of want to see Mara Crucio their asses. Michelle Hodkin