Ann Aguirre Quotes & Sayings

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to. — Ann Aguirre

I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen. — Ann Aguirre

I sighed. 'It's hard. You're the only one who listens to what I have to say.' Longshot dropped a gentle, comforting arm around my shoulders. 'Then speak louder, girl. Don't let them put out your spark. — Ann Aguirre

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don't matter as much as
personal choice. — Ann Aguirre

I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together. — Ann Aguirre

I'm as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour. — Ann Aguirre

First slow dance, you get out there and ask her. Promise?"
Max knocked back his shot. "Fine, I can probably manage that."
I chugged my water as another good song came on. So I grabbed his hand. "Don't be self-conscious. I'm going to teach you some move. Nothing fancy."
He watched me for a few seconds than shook his head. "My pelvis only moves that way under one circumstance. This isn't it. — Ann Aguirre

It was a thing that could not be articulated or explained. It merely was, like the sunrise or a sheer and sudden drop to the giant water that had stolen my breath, where the land ended in the ruins. My love for Fade strengthened me, made me determined never to give up. I would follow him until the world stopped or until I found him. I believed love hadn't weakened me or left me soft; instead it made me powerful, determined beyond all belief. — Ann Aguirre

Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, toward the last hope for Salvation. — Ann Aguirre

My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy ... or so scared. — Ann Aguirre

You take another little piece of me every time you open your mouth. - Ty, Chapter Twenty-One — Ann Aguirre

You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination.
That would have to do. — Ann Aguirre

Maybe you can't save the world, but you'll never stop trying. It's the best thing about you. — Ann Aguirre

I've lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye. — Ann Aguirre

Just ... love me, and let tomorrow look after itself. — Ann Aguirre

People try to make sense of things, and if they don't know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none. — Ann Aguirre

A new voice pops up on the comm, relayed from the station. March. "What the frag are you doing, Triumph? Who's at the helm? I didn't give clearance for a pleasure cruise."
"Can't talk, Commander," Hit answers smoothly. "We're busy saving your ass. — Ann Aguirre

I'll start with the Internet and work from there. — Ann Aguirre

This creature was evil and monstrous because we made him that way; it wasn't like he got to pick his origin story. — Ann Aguirre

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had — Ann Aguirre

That face." He finally came around the table, closing the distance between us, and I knew, I just knew he was going to frame my face in his hands, as he always had. "How can I live without this face?" Chapter Twenty-Two — Ann Aguirre

I refute a god who would do such a thing to test people who have done their best to live according to his laws. — Ann Aguirre

If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed — Ann Aguirre

I want to drag you off and hide you away," he whispered.
"Why?"
"I always knew you were beautiful, but now everyone else will too. I won't be able to keep other boys away from you, and it'll make me crazy. — Ann Aguirre

Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it. — Ann Aguirre

Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he's seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you're still alone. — Ann Aguirre

As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the V of another guy's thighs. Falling, he makes a noise that I can't say I've heard a human utter before, sort of like I imagine a puppy would sound being put through a juicer. — Ann Aguirre

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain. — Ann Aguirre

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts. — Ann Aguirre

You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in. — Ann Aguirre

His pale eyes blazed with the power of what he felt for me. The reflected heat warmed me where I hadn't even known I was cold. Then his golden, spiky lashes swept down, veiling his thoughts. — Ann Aguirre

My heart hurt when I remembered him, but the alternative was forgetting, and that was the final kind of death - when nobody told your story anymore. — Ann Aguirre

Don't let them see you weak. — Ann Aguirre

He cocked his head, listening, then whispered to the big man, "We've got a group of four, incoming. Don't scare them off with your stench."
Einar growled back, "I smell like angels at sunrise."
"Dead ones," a small man cracked. — Ann Aguirre

Sometimes I miss the old me. — Ann Aguirre

It made no sense that he'd encounter loyalty like this inside Perdition, where the worst of humanity was imprisoned. But maybe there are a few of the best, too. — Ann Aguirre

Do you know how to kill a Freak with your bare hands? Can you skin and cook a rabbit? Do you know what wild plants you can eat? Would you be able to get yourself from the ruins where I was born all the way up north?" I shook my head, knowing the answer already. "In my world, lady, I'm already as good as I need to be, and I don't like your tone. — Ann Aguirre

I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm.
My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought. — Ann Aguirre

I've held my silence when I probably shouldn't have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I was afraid of career backlash. I was afraid of being excluded or losing opportunities if I didn't play nice. — Ann Aguirre

They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye. — Ann Aguirre

But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took. — Ann Aguirre

For a long time, I stood in the circle of his arm and counted the stars. I ran out of numbers before brightness, and that felt like a promise of better days to come. — Ann Aguirre

Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble. — Ann Aguirre

Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked. — Ann Aguirre

My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you're so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash. — Ann Aguirre

This guilt is a joke, and it's exhausting to watch you martyr yourself. — Ann Aguirre

Edmund cleared his throat. "Pretty as a picture, isn't she?"
Fade only nodded. His hungry stare brought color to my cheeks, and I was conscious of the warmth of his fingers when he touched me. Just on the arm, but my skin was bare, and it felt shocking, intimate, too darking in front of my foster parents. — Ann Aguirre

What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us. — Ann Aguirre

But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I've become. — Ann Aguirre

If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best. — Ann Aguirre

He tastes like sweet wine and promises [...] — Ann Aguirre

I don't believe in love at all," he returns, equally quiet. "It's just a name people give the endorphins that spring up after some really hot fucking, and the justification they use to manipulate the shit out of each other afterward. — Ann Aguirre

Are you mine?" I asked, low knowing the answer already.
"Completely." His voice thrummed with conviction.
And oh, I liked it.
"So I may do anything I wish with you?"
"Anything."
I didn't need his invitation, of course. He belonged to me, like everything in Sheol, but there was more pleasure in a willing slave. I drew my athame and took his hand. He shuddered at my touch because I put a thread of power in it, pulled it through him in a flicker of the darkest pleasure. Soon enough he'd beg for this, unable to perform with anyone else. I knew how to enthrall my lovers. With a faint smile, I pricked the tip of his finger. Not as much pain as he expected, I think, but I drew blood. His gasp aroused me. His blood welled like a crimson jewel and I took his fingertip between my lips, tasting him. Learning his secrets. — Ann Aguirre

We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other. — Ann Aguirre

He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all. — Ann Aguirre

And maybe what I meant when I said that about Deuce is I don't want to do without her. — Ann Aguirre

I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted the smallest tasks. Some whispered it would be a kindness to kill him, but they meant they didn't want to see their futures written in his skin. — Ann Aguirre

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead. — Ann Aguirre

I swept down the stairs to find Fade waiting for me at the bottom. His dark eyes widened, and for the first time since I'd known him, he was speechless. He stared up at me like I was everything he ever wanted. — Ann Aguirre

The smile kindles in his dark eyes before it reaches his mouth. With a wonder that actually steals my breath, I watch its genesis like a mini-sunrise lighting his whole face. — Ann Aguirre

Afraid of damn near everything. But I refuse to let it paralyze me. I won't be the woman who cowers behind four walls, never taking chances. I want to die like I've lived. I always wanted to be larger than life. — Ann Aguirre

With a polite smile, I decided she was insane. — Ann Aguirre

I never belonged anywhere until I met you. — Ann Aguirre

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always. — Ann Aguirre

People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don't change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee. — Ann Aguirre

Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought. — Ann Aguirre

Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best.
-Deuce, (183) — Ann Aguirre

Sometimes when you meet someone, there's a click. I don't believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition. — Ann Aguirre

Dying in our sleep won't solve anything in the long run, even if a nihilist would argue it's coming down the pike at some point anyway, so we might as well embrace it. — Ann Aguirre

I don't know how to be brokenhearted. I wish you hadn't taught me. — Ann Aguirre

Backed by a long, proud history of not-dying, I know when someone's serious. — Ann Aguirre

I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn. — Ann Aguirre

In a place like this, there would be petty despots. Factions. This was a sunless world where madness and depravity reigned. — Ann Aguirre

Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy. — Ann Aguirre

And what do you think I'm after?"
"Her heart," I said. "Which is too bad. You see ... that's mine, and it always will be. Odd as it might seem, she'd rather have me broken than you whole. — Ann Aguirre

Sometimes certainty can sound an awful lot like madness. — Ann Aguirre

More than most, I know the pain of surviving. — Ann Aguirre

Then I imagine this is how other people feel when they find my pink Post-it. But this one is bright blue and it's written in black Sharpie. It says, You are the silver lining. I love that phrase and the fact that it came from John Milton. "Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night?" So somebody out there thinks I'm the bright side of a dark cloud. — Ann Aguirre

I wanted proof, not promises. — Ann Aguirre

I should've realized I needed to go all the way to hell to find my soul. — Ann Aguirre

I'm going to be straight with you... because this dance is killing me. Don't imagine for a second that I don't want you." - Ty, Chapter Five — Ann Aguirre

I'd call for an escort, but I think it's ill-advised to reveal that my lover may have a psychotic episode if he's not medicated. — Ann Aguirre

Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better. — Ann Aguirre

Have you ever watched a child learning to walk?
Before this week, I never had, but there's a certain grace to it. Well, if not grace, then tenacity. Fall down nine times
get up ten. And the tenth time you get where you're going, you don't stop, not for obstacles, not for other people telling you to stop. You don't listen to anything but that inner voice until you arrive where you want to be. — Ann Aguirre

You know you can get in trouble for visiting a boy's personal space. But if you do something for me, I won't tell anyone. Oh, not today. — Ann Aguirre

A dress or a hairstyle wouldn't change a lifetime of indifference. — Ann Aguirre

Because I love you...Not just when it's easy. All the time. — Ann Aguirre

They're fooling themselves," I say. "It's better to deal with your shit head on. Life doesn't get better if you look away. — Ann Aguirre

Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing."
"No," I said softly. "It just hurts because you wish it was you. — Ann Aguirre

This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and sacrifice. Don't lose hope. We've faced the darkness before - it has nothing new to teach us. As we go about our lives, let us remember the example Dr. Navarro set for us. At the right time, anyone can be a hero. — Ann Aguirre

I don't like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn't choose to tell them. — Ann Aguirre

I love you. Not when it's easy, all the time.
-Horde — Ann Aguirre

I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time. — Ann Aguirre

To her, I was nothing, and she got me to the point where I didn't care what happened to me, as long as she was gone, too. — Ann Aguirre

The big man glanced at the princess in chains for permission, hefting his axe suggestively. Jael expected her to nod and give him the go-ahead to serve as her executioner. Instead, she put out a hand and took the weapon from him. Her green eyes were like chips of jade in her pale, bloody countenance. This was the face of the Dread Queen.
"Kneel," she commanded, and the command had an inexorable weight.
Not only did Priest drop to his knees, so did the other men in the vicinity; two belonged to Silence. The Speaker frowned at this.
In a single swing, she took her enemy's head. The crowd roared.
And Jael fell a little in love. — Ann Aguirre

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person. — Ann Aguirre

What was the good of having such a fine home if you weren't willing to fight for it? — Ann Aguirre

There's a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don't have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they're all the same shade of gray. — Ann Aguirre

Not all love stories end happily. Sometimes they just end. — Ann Aguirre

I've found we hate most in others what we can't stand about ourselves. — Ann Aguirre