top of page
"But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Sensitivity quotes

"Turns out rolling your eyes in a bar when 'Land Down Under' plays is like someone belching during the Star Spangled Banner in America."

"Maybe we don't ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love's grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe."

"The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability."

"Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all."

"What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her."

"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."

"We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first."

"There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone."

"You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose."

"Don't touch me, I'll die if you touch me."
Explore more quotes by Ally Carter

"There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it."

"Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability - cause and effect. It's the physics of human nature, and to truly understand it, one has to be objective and cool."

"I didn't know there were this many math guys,' Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse.Kat cleared her throat. 'And women,' he added. 'Math women."

"And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come -it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw."

"You really saw some?' Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, 'They really...exist?' 'Liz,' I whispered back, 'they're not unicorns.' 'No,' Bex said flatly, 'they're boys. And they're...good."
bottom of page