Lucy Christopher Quotes - Page 3

• You're right, he's a killer," you said. "A rooster with some serious issues.

  Lucy Christopher

  Issues, Killers, Serious

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.141, Scholastic Inc.

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• I was surprised at her gentleness, her willingness to give in.

  Lucy Christopher

  Giving, Gentleness, Willingness

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.124, Scholastic Inc.

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• I thought you didn't want to let me go.

  Lucy Christopher

  Want, Let Me Go, Let Me

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• One day they'll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You'll return to the Separates, and you'll feel the rain once more. And you'll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will.

  Lucy Christopher

  Rain, Cells, One Day

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.255, Scholastic Inc.

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• Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.

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  Beautiful, Powerful, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• I made it," you said, gruffly, "for you." You shoved it onto my finger. It was roughly carved, shaped from a lump of something colourful and cold...a ring made entirely from a gemstone. It was beautiful. It glinted emerald greens and blood reds over my skin, and had tiny flecks of gold catching the light. I couldn't stop staring at it. "Why?" I asked. You didn't answer that. Instead you touched the ring gently and looked piercingly at me, unsaid questions in your eyes.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Light

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• ¿Adónde vas?" Le pregunté. "Al medio de la nada". "Pensé que era aquí". "No". Sacudiste la cabeza. "Esto es sólo el borde.

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  Middle Of Nowhere, Middle, Edges

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.100, Scholastic Inc.

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• I can't save you like that Ty. What you did to me wasn't this brilliant thing, like you think it was. You took me away from everything - my parents, my friends, my life. You took me to the sand and the heat, the dirt and isolation. And you expected me to love you. And that's the hardest bit. Because I did, or at least, I loved something out there. But I hated you too. I can't forget that.

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  Love You, Thinking, Parent

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• The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.

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  Tunnels, Light, Heaven

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• I didn’t look back, but I knew you were still watching. It probably sounds weird, but I could just feel it. The hairs on my neck bristled when you blinked.

  Lucy Christopher

  Hair, Sound, Looks

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.

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• Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long.

  Lucy Christopher

  Eye, Long, Intense

  Lucy Christopher (2013). “The Killing Woods”, p.224, Chicken House

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• Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. “I can’t go back. Not yet. I can’t leave.” And she held my head tight to her chest and wrapped her arms around me. “You don’t have to,” she said, rocking me. “You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, not anymore.” And I cried.

  Lucy Christopher

  Lying, Hair, Want

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• Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you were studying me in the artificial lights above my head. And, I mean, you really looked at me … with eyes like two stars. [...] And I had wings fluttering away inside me all right. Big fat moth wings. You trapped me easily, drew me toward you like I was already in the net.

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  Stars, Mean, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.10, Scholastic Inc.

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• Your beautiful mouth was moving like a caterpillar. I reached out and tried to catch it.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Moving, Mouths

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• It didn't make me glow. I felt more like I was fading away, like the world had forgotten me.

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  Fading Away, World, Forgotten

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was glowing … like it had a kind of aura.

  Lucy Christopher

  Light, Glowing, Peeking

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.44, Scholastic Inc.

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• I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tears looked so odd on you. It was like the strength of you just seemed to sap away. The surprise of it stopped me from being so scared.

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  Dad, Men, Tears

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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• But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.

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  Winning, Years, Hundred

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.200, Scholastic Inc.

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