Ilsa Quotes

As far as I knew, Nadia was still with her new guy, some fancy tennis player from Brazil. Donatello or Michelangelo or something. Ninja Turtle? Yeah. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

We were like matching bookends, almost touching but with volumes between us and stories, so many stories. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Tell yourself you're dead, the way Matt does, so the past can't hurt you. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

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

Forget those stupid MasterCard commercials. Watching two chicks duke it out in high heels ... now, that's priceless. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Sometimes the loneliest place on earth is in the midst of a crowd ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

I was putting my foot down with my new neighbor. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

I'd like to sleep for a hundred years, wake up and try again.
-Nora Blakely ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Why was he my Romeo, but I wasn't his Juliet? ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Neither was evil. They were both true to who they are. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Happiness. I believed few people ever achieved it. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

I'm the guy who's going to take you up against this wall. I'm going to bury my cock in you and own your body and you're going to love it. But I'm not going to hurt you. Ever. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

You don't want me, Nora. I'll fuck you, and when I'm done, I'll leave you. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

I sat there, letting the idea of starting again soak in, finding beauty in the balance of life. We have ups and downs, and how we deal is up to us. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

He grunts. "Really? No one wanted them to be together. None of the gods approved. Who'd love the kind of the underworld?"
"The right person. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

No one saw me go. No one thinks to look for someone who's always there. - Ilsa ~ V.E. Schwab

In our deeds we can structure our lives so that the simple things that we do everyday, from bathing to cooking, have resonance and ritual. -Ilsa Crawford ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Sometimes I wish I had a lower IQ so I could enjoy your company. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Happiness is simply collecting and remembering all the good moments in your life ... ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

I think. I sense. I wonder. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Why did I want her so fucking much? Why couldn't I push her away like I did everyone else? Why couldn't I breathe when I saw her? ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

As if she sensed me, her eyes opened and when her green ones found mine, I swear, it felt like someone hit the pause button on the universe and she was all I could see. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

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

Could you love me, love me, love me
Do it, please, fall for me.
Baby, give me one more moment,
Just one more moment with you.
~"Fly Away" by Leo Tate ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Being alone in a room full of people who never really looked at you didn't bother me. Or at least that's what I told myself. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Not everyone wears their scars on their skin. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Loving people hurt; losing them could destroy you. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

We all travel life's highway, making good and bad choices based on upbringing and beliefs. And, in the end, we have to be able to live with what we've done. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Ilsa looked slightly aggrieved at the news that Robin still intended to marry someone other than Strike, but before she could say anything else Strike's mobile buzzed in his pocket. ~ Robert Galbraith

That pain moves when you move; it mutters between every breath; it spikes your ears; it rips. You think pain can't be any more horrible than that.

Until you discover that the well is bottomless. There's always more. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives them hope. When hope fails, then watch out. Some people get brutal. They'll turn on each other; they'll become their own worst enemies. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it. ~ Markus Zusak

Clarity happens to all of us when our heart jumps ship, and mine was no different. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

SOMETIMES, YOU JUST need a badass theme song to get you through the day. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Your scars are beautiful. It means you survived. It means you're here with me." He kissed my wrist, light as a feather - and changed everything about us. "It's my favorite part of you, ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

But this girl, she lived in a bubble, and seeing her out at a frat party was like spotting a unicorn. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

I decided Conrad was right after all. Ilsa was meant to be with Laszlo. That was the way it was always supposed to end. Rick was nothing but a tiny piece of her past, a piece that she would always treasure, but that was all, because history is just that. History. ~ Jenny Han

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Safe. That is a pretty word. ~ Victoria Schwab

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241) ~ Ilsa J. Bick

The thing to remember about a kick is you go for his twigs and berries" ~Declan~ ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

I doubted I would need my eyes. I drew in the dark, after all. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

It was, come to think of it, a little like a kinder, gentler Psycho-Dad making one of his command decisions. Exactly the same, only without all the fuss and blood. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

It felt good to be bad-nora ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Trouble at two o'clock. Evil bitch and copycat cohort arriving in three, two, one ... annnd ... they're here. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

And like the missing chips in this china, pieces of my spirit were also gone, destroyed by people who claimed to love me. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

I was just a simple, young girl whose love for a boy would last until the end of time. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

She could have shot herself, scratched herself or indulged in other forms of self-mutilation, but she chose what she probably felt was the weakest option-to at least endure the discomfort of the weather. ~ Markus Zusak

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

Because if you can just hold off the moment when you must confront reality, time stands still and you can keep pretending that life will continue as you´ve known it: that nothing-not even something as wonderful and as terrible as love-has broken your world beyond repair. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

If love is the answer, then I'm changing the question. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Falling for someone can be a lot like playing roulette. You don't know what will happen when you place that bet, but you can take a deep breath anyway and put all the chips out there. And when the ball spins around and around, you pray it lands on your number. Probability says you'll likely lose, and in this game of love with Leo, odds were I would lose, too, but I had to try. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Because they were frightened of me." She crossed her arms as best she could. "Not because they respected me."
"I think we can both agree that fear is a type of respect."
"Perhaps." She looked slightly placated. "Everyone I meet who knows of my power fears me. Maybe I'm the most respected person in the world."
"Maybe," I agreed, and thunder rolled overhead. Ilsa glanced upwards, her features illuminated by a flicker of lightning.
We sat in silence for a few minutes longer, before I jumped down from the wagon.
"You don't fear me, though," Ilsa called as I searched for another stick. "I can tell. You think yourself more powerful."
She jumped as lightning cracked through the sky overhead. I heard several prisoners further back, exclaiming loudly.
"Maybe," I repeated, and started work on another dance as Ilsa watched. ~ Aprille Legacy

For that matter, my heart is broken. So maybe they´ĺl give me his. It´s something to shoot for.
And maybe, in all that, Bob?
There is forgiveness... ~ Ilsa J. Bick

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? ~ Ilsa J. Bick

The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Staying alive just to stay alive isn't enough. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

She'd drawn the moment of her death.
No. NO. She'd DRAWN herself to death. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Fuck Briarcrest Academy, and fuck you all. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

When Liesel left that day, she said something with great uneasiness. In translation, two giant words were struggled with, carried on her shoulder, and dropped as a bungling pair at Ilsa Hermann's feet. They fell off sideways as the girl veered with them and could no longer sustain their weight. Together, they sat on the floor, large and loud and clumsy. Two giant words ... I'm sorry. ~ Markus Zusak

All my life the people I have loved - Ilsa, Cousin Anna, Silver, Myra Turnbull, Joshua Tisbury - have accepted me as a friend, have confided in me - but, somehow, there has been no actual contact made. It has been almost as though they could talk to me because I didn't exist. I think that's because there has been no give and take. I have a pitcher into which the people I love have poured themselves. I have accepted everything and been allowed to give nothing. When they discover that I have passions of my own it seems to jar them. In ~ Madeleine L'Engle

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and remembered nightmares. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

She's stupid on a stick. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

The sun may be gone, but the stars are still there, waiting, always giving you light. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw? ~ Ilsa J. Bick

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Dewerman was this bearded 1960's throwback: a Teletubby in tie-dye, suspenders, and thinning hair scraped back into a stringy gray rat. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

If I want to fuck Cuba, then I'll enjoy every dirty moment. I'm not afraid of getting my heart broken Leo. There's not one there to break. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Somedays will eat you alive. They're promises you make to fool yourself into believing everything will turn out right in the end. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity.
Yet many others search their entire lives for something - or someone - worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Material goods rarely alter our levels of happiness, unlike emotional experience. Having can never replace being. -Ilsa Crawford ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream? ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Big moments happen with the smallest actions, and sometimes it's not until later we connect the dots, but in that instant, I knew that somehow, someway Declan was going to own my heart. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

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. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

I didn't want to coast by anymore. I wanted some fucking happiness. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

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 [ ... ] ~ Ilsa J. Bick

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. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

With no sense of smell, your memories dropped like pennies out of a ripped pocket, until the past was ashes and your parents were blanks: nothing more than the holes in Swiss cheese. ~ Ilsa Bick

We think we're invincible, but we're not. One way or another, we're all placed six feet under. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Some people think God puts difficult people in our lives for a reason, to make us better people as we sharpen ourselves on the knife of their shortcomings. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Italian food trumps ex-boyfriends every time, ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Truth can be awful and even excruciating, but once it's released, it's like a bird that's been caged too long who finally flies to freedom. I felt a little like that. Free ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

I gargled a laugh, but I'd never felt more like crying in my life. I'm fine. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

From the moment she'd taken the stage, my eyes had followed her. Probably because she was tall and blonde and wealthy, a prime example of an American princess-type. I bet she was popular and the quarterbacks girlfriend. I bet she had a pet Chihuahua she carried around in her purse. No doubt, her parents gave her anything her heart desired. She was spoiled rotten and didn't know shit about the real world. Nora Blakely was everything I avoided when it came to girls. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Sometimes in the middle of a normal day, a life-changing choice is thrown in front of you. Right then, you're one decision away from a completely different existence. You decide your future even though you aren't even aware you're doing it. Your choice might result in finding love or death or winning the fucking lottery - you don't know. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Those brain-zapped kids weren't the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

The truth is, trying not to want her made me want her more. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

I never met a girl I couldn't say goodbye to ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Don't get so caught up in looking behind you forget to look ahead. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

I didn't know jack, but I did know that even after the people you love are torn from you, time keeps beating away at the black metronome that's called life. It doesn't care that you've cracked wide open, that you're screaming for everyone to just stop. It doesn't hear you. You are nothing. People still go to dinner, planes take off and land, lions roar, violins play. And you are left in your corner, hanging on to memories, nothing more than a speck of dust on the metronome's base. - from the journal of Violet St. Lyons ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills