Elixir Quotes
"The petals represent faith, valor, and wisdom."
"I'm not sure Pierre's had his eyes off your friend's …"
"I've been lucky enough to see some of the greatest actors of our time perform onstage."
"There’s a story behind every face, every landscape, every still life."
"I’m fine, Pierre and I went out for coffee. We weren’t even here when the fire started."
"That’s what people love. It’s what I love too."
"Not the strangest thing for someone at a hospital, but your dad couldn’t shake the idea that the guy wasn’t sad about anyone else, but about you."
"He figured if his feeling was right, the guy would show up again."
"Mom loved to tell me how she took me everywhere when I was an infant."
"I gave Mom and myself only a cursory glance before surveying the background."
"Don’t know. Maybe it wasn’t ready for you to notice it."
"Your dad thought it might have some answers."
"A lost soul—usually male—turned evil spirit that attaches itself to someone in order to lead her astray."
"Dad knew about this thing my whole life, but he never let it get in the way of what I wanted to do."
"It’s just … this is the real reason your dad hired me."
"I’d be surprised if it hadn’t been searched for clues regularly since Grant first found the vials."
"We’re moving with a stranger, no one knows where we are, and we have no way of getting in touch with anyone."
"That’s the information I have—I know where it is."
"Eternal life is useless without eternal youth."
"Your fiancé thought I was beautiful five hundred years ago. He couldn’t keep his hands off me."
"I’m thinking I’ll bust in there sometime and nip a few things for myself."
"Olivia, the minute we met, other women ceased to exist. You are my soulmate. I’m not going back to anyone else. You’re stuck with me forever. Deal with it."
"I can’t believe you’re both ready to give up!"
"You have nothing to worry about from Magda. She can’t come between us."
"Your souls are connected—he’s always with you, whether he’s there physically or not."
"It’s the most amazing thing in the world, and it’s happened to you. Can’t you just accept it and be happy?"
"It’s not as romantic, but that’s not why I don’t buy it. If he’s a killer, there are lots of other girls to kill."
"They really had given Sage eternal life, and they all wanted the same for themselves."
"The only hitch in their plans was what to do with the Elixir … and with Sage."
"Those who did sleep jockeyed subtly for spots closest to the Elixir."
"It was quite an outlet for them, coming up with new and creative ways to kill Sage."
"Sage always recovered, but the pain was so incomprehensibly horrible that he prayed for the mercy of death."
"They threw Sage off cliffs, they tied him to rocks and let wild animals attack him, they lit him on fire."
"Sage didn’t answer. Instead, in one fluid movement, he whisked the knife out of the man’s belt and sliced the throats of both his co-conspirators."
"Sage stood like a wild animal among the corpses of the five men he’d killed."
"I saw Sage pour out the remaining Elixir, destroying it."
"I don’t want to be tortured anymore. I need your help."
"I’ll do it," he told Dad. "I’ll go with you."
"He pulled out a picture of me and handed it to Sage."
"Sage checked his watch—did he even have another minute?"