Best Awake Quotes by Natasha Preston

"Handling myself is what got me expelled from my last school."

"I won’t walk under a ladder or cross path with a black cat."

"You never know what’s out there in the big bad world."

"I was raised on a pretty remote farm on a tiny island, but I am not that sheltered."

"There is no one else who is perfect to me and for me. Different is not a bad thing."

"We’ve not known each other long at all, I do think about our future."

"You can have anything you want, my special girl."

"No matter what you want to do – if it’s bathing in baked beans – I’ll be right behind you. On the outside of the bath, but I’ll be there."

"I guess I want your help to try and figure out what it was."

"The brain is a very complex thing and occasionally pieces of information are lost forever."

"I want you imagine yourself as a three-year-old child, you know nothing of the fire that took your memory."

"I’m nowhere, there’s just white around me, like those models in photo frames."

"The mind is a complicated thing. The fact that you’ve remembered this much is a huge step."

"I’m sure they will see continuing with the original plan is the best idea. They don’t want this to go wrong either and it’s already so dangerous."

"I didn’t know what it was like to wake up beside her."

"I am in this one hundred percent. I just wondered if it would be better when she’s twenty or twenty-four."

"I felt like I was constantly battling between what was expected of me and what I wanted."

"The truth was all I wanted. Why wouldn’t anyone just give me that?"

"How could you find peace after murdering someone?"

"I’m sick of not knowing what happened, and I’m sick of you lying to me."

"The sacrifice was going ahead and we knew then and there that Donald and Fiona were off their bloody rocker."

"In the scuffle candles were knocked, and the room was quickly engulfed in flames."

"I’ve no idea. No, actually I do. I want to rewind time to before the car accident and leave my grandparents house later. I want for it not to be true. I want to go back to a time when everything was simple. I hate this, Noah," I said and started to sob. "I hate this and I just want to be normal."

"No, I’m not going to run. I love you, Scarlett, no matter what. I’m not going anywhere," he whispered into my hair.

"Time doesn’t mean anything, Scarlett, not when you care about someone."

"We love where we live and the friends we’ve made and don’t want some crazy cult to ruin that. I need the familiarity of here and my friends when everything else has changed so much."

"It’s not stupid. It’s going to take a while to get your head around everything – it would for anyone. You’re not dead inside for needing time to process what you’ve been told."

"I don’t know if there’s a word to describe it. Shocked, betrayed, hurt and confused all come close."

"Water cleanses the earth, it allows people to drink, to wash and grow crops. You give us all we need to live now and beyond."

"I love you_, Scarlett," he whispered and claimed my lips.

"I was hopelessly in love with her. And our love was hopeless."

"You didn’t have to take it that far. Did you want to hurt me before they murdered me? Was that it? Do you hate me?"

"No matter if he felt guilt or not we were done."

"Sorry would never be good enough. I would never forgive him for what he’d done."

"I was so upset with them for lying to me that I’d compromised my safety because I was angry."

"Everything he’d said, we’d done, we had, set on fire and burned to ashes. None of it was real."

"How could he? Did he even care about me at all or was it all one big, fat lie to get me to his cult."

"You’re going to be fine, Scarlett. Your parents will explain better than we can so just sit quietly until we get there."

"As much as it broke me, I wanted to believe no, it was easier than knowing he loved me but did it anyway."

"I held myself tighter, holding my body together."

"My heart was splitting, pieces breaking off."

"He’d played me, and I fell for it. That hurt."

"I wasn’t going to take anything lightly anymore, and I was going to fight."

"You will understand if you allow yourself to open your mind to us."

"I was doing everything I could to make it right."

"I wasn’t a wonderful man, but I hoped tomorrow might correct that, even a little."

"You didn’t turn your back on Eternal Light, your family and the community."

"Everything that I’d done haunted me, preventing me from sleeping for too long."

"It was only hearing it when you’d turned your back that you really heard it."

"Scarlett stood in a long, white dress that made me think about marrying her one day."

"The girl I was in love with was going to die."

"I wanted to throw myself in the lake now so we could get this thing started and over with."

"I wondered if he actually listened to himself."

"We believe what we’ve been taught, right? Especially by the people we trust the most."

"You above everything. In the end, turning my back on the people that were going to drive a knife through your heart was almost as easy as falling in love with you."

"I think you’re the key to my happiness. As long as you’re okay, I’m okay."

"I understand that I have no right to ask anything of you, but I need you to believe me when I tell you I love you."

"I didn’t really understand anything until I fell for you."

"It’s hard to believe he sat by while that happened, even if he was just a child himself."

"Shh, it's okay. Everything's going to be okay now, sweetheart."

"We’re not going to prison and there is no battle we won’t take on to have you with us."

"They make you feel part of the best thing on earth."

"No one else out there is going to go through those lengths for me. You have to believe me."

"I love you more than everything, and I didn’t care if the prophecy was true and you were the key to eternal life because you deserve this life."

"You don’t need to say anything," Mum said. "You deserve a life the same as me, my husband and children."

"Your life starts now, and I promise it’s going to be pretty great from now on."

"I have a sister out there, Noah, and I’m going to find her."