Best Cress Quotes by Marissa Meyer

"It was a prison that came with an endlessly breathtaking view—vast blue oceans and swirling clouds and sunrises that set half the world on fire."

"Soon she would land and step out onto real dirt, feel real sunshine, smell real oxygen."

"As a child, Cress had hidden from the moon during those achingly long hours."

"She harbored a secret paranoia that if she could see the Lunars, surely they could look up beyond their artificial skies and see her."

"But now the silver horizon of Luna was creeping into the corner of her window, and Cress paid no attention."

"She averted her gaze from the pictures of death and carnage, focusing on another news story that suggested more horrors to come."

"Oh, Cress," she murmured. "What are we going to do?"

"Her ten-year-old self piped back, 'Please clarify your instructions, Big Sister.'"

"It always came back to love. More than freedom, more than acceptance—love."

"The sky is this gorgeous, intense blue color."

"I am an explorer," she whispered, "setting courageously off into the wild unknown."

"My life is an adventure," she said. "I will not be shackled to this satellite anymore."

"If this is how you feel about a desert, I can’t wait until you see your first real tree. Your mind will explode."

"I'm familiar with IT-relations. Just wait until you meet our spaceship. She's a riot."

"You had better not even think to lie to me, Crescent. How long have you been communicating with her?"

"You see?" said Thorne, nudging Scarlet in the shoulder. "Iko and the imprisoned, socially awkward satellite girl, best friends forever."

"She’d never known sunsets could be green, had never known just how quickly the darkness set in."

"She allowed the little ship to become an extension of her."

"He’s lucky the bullets didn’t puncture a lung, or he wouldn’t have made it this far, but he did lose a lot of blood."

"What’s most disconcerting is that we were given zero indication of their approach. It’s as if they all just… flickered into existence, ten thousand kilometers over our heads."

"The most powerful men and women on Earth would be at this ceremony, making it awfully easy for Levana to abuse her powers of manipulation."

"She paid no attention to the hot tears as they crept down her cheeks and dripped soundlessly into her lap."

"She was an athlete training for a cross-country journey."

"She had never flown so well, not since the day her grandmother had begun teaching her in the delivery ship around the farm."

"Cress let out a pained groan and collapsed into the sand."

"He’s a Lunar who had contacts working within this very palace."

"She thought only of how she must make her mistress proud of her."

"The thaumaturge uncrossed his legs and stood."

"She suppressed the voice out of nervous panic that her mistress would sense her confusion."

"I hope you don’t really think I’m here just to be bossed around some more."

"I’m just glad you’re all right. I really was worried."

"This isn’t right to see such a pretty girl crying like that, especially after all you’ve been through."

"You’re killing me, Cress. When have you ever seen me do anything that would be considered heroic?"

"I don’t care what you do with her in the meantime. Give her to one of the families if you want."

"I’m willing to make you a deal, if you aren’t too sore a loser."

"She’s very believable, but I’m a man of keen observation."

"I’m afraid I’m programmed to avoid destruction of property."

"You must have known she was a shell when you found her?"

"That’s true. I am rather attached to my nose."

"You’re lucky he didn’t break your nose or knock out any teeth."

"You turned me into this, and I will kill you before I become another experiment."

"We are a society that values human life – all human life."

"I’m doing great things here, things that will change the world, and you can help me."

"I hope they spill soy sauce on their fancy dresses."

"She would have collapsed if his grip hadn’t been so firm."

"No one is hurt and no one is going to get hurt!"
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"The way all his energy darkened and thickened around him. The way he seemed empty, missing."

"That’s what it’s like," said the woman. "To have your own body used against you. To know that your brain has become a traitor."

"But her lips still managed a smug smile. She’d already said more than she thought Levana would allow, and the fury in the queen’s eyes made it worthwhile."

"Her tongue froze, her jaws and throat icing over. But her lips still managed a smug smile."

"She’s my alpha," he murmured, with a haunting sadness in his voice.

"It was very likely that she was already dead."

"It would be best if they could focus on our Lunar guests. I want them alert in case anything … untoward happens."

"How peculiar. Would you mind if I took a look at those invitations?"

"These chandeliers are extraordinary, aren’t they?" she said, putting as much lightness into her tone as she could.

"You don’t suppose we should... mingle, do you?"

"Just like you. To finally show a bit of humanity beneath the arrogance, and of course it’s only a concern for yourself."

"My Crescent Moon is up there. We stick to the plan."

"We’re not in the middle of a war, we’re at the very beginning."

"I’m on my side," she said. "And if you want what’s best for the Commonwealth, and this entire planet, you’d better be on my side too."

"Everything had been going so well. She had been moments away from walking down that aisle. Moments away."

"When she found out who was responsible for this delay, she would torment their fragile mind until they were a drooling, pathetic idiot, terrified of the sight of their own hands."

""You’re telling me that this teenage girl has not only escaped from your prison and evaded capture by your highly trained military, but has now invaded your palace and the private quarters of the emperor himself, kidnapped him, and again gotten away with it?""

""I see," she said, finding it too wearisome to soften the hardness of her anger."

""I must say, I’m delighted with this irony. You left an honorable position on Luna to come to Earth and devote your last withering years to finding a cure for this disease. A disease that I already have the antidote for."

"I do not disagree, Your Majesty. I trust Mr. Konn did not inform you of this evening’s other interesting development?""

""Earthens are pathetic. It’s amazing they haven’t already become extinct.""

""This is a very large mirror I’m looking into. So impossible to hide from what I am… what I’ve become."

""You are either much stupider than I ever suspected, or you are lying, as that is precisely what Linh Cinder did today, against my head thaumaturge herself.""

""Of course he’s lying!" the doctor screeched, his voice breaking."