Quotes by A. S. Forrest

“they catch us, we’re going right back into the cell.” Roark went silent, and then dragged a chair out from the table. “Sit,” he ordered gently, moving away from it and taking the one on the opposite side. I sat down after a fraction of a second, and then looked at him expectantly. “It’s good that you’re thinking of us as a ‘we,’” he said, “because at this point we are, and we’re all in it together.” “Yes, but to what end? What purpose? What is your ultimate goal here?” I knew I came off as a bit angry, but the truth was I was frustrated. My patience was almost gone, and I was scared and tired”

“You don’t have any of the disorders those doctors diagnosed you with, Sofia,” she explained. “What you have is often confused with other disorders, because it’s hard to detect, but I honestly think that you have “Low Latent Inhibition”, also known as LLI. Latent inhibition is what allows people to shut down other things so that they can focus on selected things. It’s what allows us to not have to deal with all this external and internal stimuli at the same time. After all, the brain can only take so much. You, however, don’t have a lot of latent inhibition. That’s why you’re constantly fully aware of everything going on around you.””

“You are who you choose to be. No matter how much light is shed upon you, if you still choose to remain in darkness, that’s your doing, not anyone else’s.””

“I always thought of you as the girl I would eventually become serious with. The only explanation I can really give you is that I wasn’t ready to settle yet. But I know I caused you a lot of pain and there’s no excuse for it. I was being a complete jackass.””

“That’s because you’re doing all the talking. Frankly,””

“Why bother helping you at all?” Elias said, his voice lazy. “Why feed you breadcrumbs when I could just stuff the whole loaf in your face?” He laughed, and the sound chilled Alex’s blood. It was a jackal’s laugh, high and keening, and it cut out with the abruptness of a breaking window. “A bomb should only be armed once its user is sure it will hit the mark,” he said, his voice creaking with laughter.””

“They’re being taught that their species is superior. That the Rimians and the Naloreans only live to serve us, and they’ve gotten a pretty good deal through selling their blood to their oppressors. Hell, the Rimians and the Naloreans don’t even know they’re being oppressed,” Mira muttered, contempt tainting her soft voice. “They think all of this is okay, that it’s supposed to be like this.””

“I think we’ve both existed for long enough to accept that sometimes you mess up just for the sake of messing up. You take the wrong turn simply to see where the road leads you. You jump into the abyss to find out what’s at the bottom.””

“It’s a shark,” Corrine said. “If you’re right, that is one long-ass shark,” Ashley murmured.””