Library Of Souls Quotes
"Hollows are born lusting after the souls of peculiars, arrayed before it like a buffet."
"It was not currently murdering us because I had asked it not to."
"Every time I touched one, it slipped out of my grasp."
"I might have enough heat to cauterize the wound."
"We’re hurt and defenseless, and the others are probably miles away by now."
"Fearfulness isn’t a characteristic of my breed."
"It’s bad for business to know things like that."
"The pure of heart don’t end up as ditch pirates."
"I realized it had been building, slowly and gradually, for some time."
"Neither arrangement was any guarantee of safety."
"I resolved then that should we make it safely to shore, my first order of business would be to get rid of it once and for all."
"Let go, I mouthed silently, hoping the hollow could hear."
"Go away, go away, go AWAY, I begged the hollow in English."
"You, Jacob Portman, are amazing and terrifying."
"Get them back or die trying was something I’d said in the past few days."
"The whole of Devil’s Acre was only ten or twenty blocks square."
"Pretty soon you’re dipping into the wrong side of that gray area."
"I’m not a wight," Bentham said sharply. He was also not accustomed to being questioned by the likes of us, and his pride was beginning to poke through his genteel veneer.
"What makes us weak is geography." - Myron Bentham
"Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft." - Emma Bloom
"You’re free to leave anytime you like. But that would be such a disappointment." - Myron Bentham
"I haven’t given them names yet," Sharon said. "Just got ’em yesterday. They’re still so green, I don’t dare let them out of my sight."
"It’s a terrible mistake. An accident." - Myron Bentham
"If I could make a portal to anywhere, Siberia would not be high on my list of choices." - Jacob Portman
"No one can take the soul jars. To most everyone they would be invisible and intangible." - Myron Bentham
"I felt my chest tighten as I tried to imagine what was about to happen."
"To really control it, I’m going to have to get close."
"That confidence lasted approximately four seconds."
"Slowly the man poured black liquid from the vial into each of his mask’s eye holes."
"Just passing through!" Sharon said, the tone of which managed to say, Howdy, friend! and Please don’t kill us with those things! at the same time.
"The burst of light is a side effect," Sharon said. "Another is that, over a period of years, the ambro melts your face."
""I haven’t seen you around before," the dealer said."
"Emma gasped. The man, who had thought he was alone, turned toward us in surprise."
"He thought I was a rival drug dealer, there to steal his business."
"It was still plenty dangerous, and very unpredictable."
"I’m getting good at this, I thought with some satisfaction."
"We were about to put to shame every single one of them."
"It was a constant struggle for me, having no idea what tomorrow held."
"I planted my feet and grabbed the handle and then—though I tried not to—looked into the hollow’s face."
"The place was identical to the other side of the cave except there was no assistant."
"We were about to go into one and maybe never come out again."
""You wouldn’t even get that whole sentence out," said Sharon, eyeing the rowdy crowd."
"We’d walked only a few blocks, but already people on the street had noticed the hollow."
""I’ll get them," Emma assured me. "Just promise you’ll come back in one piece.""
"I heard the hollow roar—it sounded like a cry of victory."
"You philistines will never appreciate the gravity of my achievement."
"I choose you, Alma, because I believed... that if I helped you and your wards, you might see how unfairly you'd judged me."
"That's right, children! Listen to your headmistress! Ymbryne knows best!"
"If the others give you trouble, you know what to do."
"I won't even honor that accusation with a denial."
"We're standing now in the ancient city that once protected the Library of Souls."
"You’re one of us now. You won’t get rid of us that easily."
"You have a life and a family. This was never supposed to be forever."
"I’ve been through that already, and we simply haven’t the furniture to spare."
"I’m not sure you could handle all this power. You’re weak-minded, see."
"Young hearts, like young brains, can have short attention spans."
"You’ve become a part of us, and our family won’t feel whole without you."
"I think it would be more effective if I shot… him."
"We haven’t found it yet. I’ll know it when I see it!"
"Perhaps we should get closer to the exit before we try."
"I’d gone a little nuts, but it was probably a one-time thing and I was feeling much better now, thank you."
"I was pleasant, kind, patient, and in a hundred ways not quite the son they remembered."
"Why did we have more than we knew what to do with, while they had less than they needed to stay alive?"
"Had it really happened? Had it all been a delusion? In dark moments, I wondered. What if I was crazy?"
"There was something sweet about holding a tangible thing that had been touched and marked upon by someone I loved."
"This isn’t fair! You stole my private letters, and now you’re using them to ambush me!"
"The longer I was home, the more that seemed to be happening."
"It’s a really nice place, super expensive. Think of it as a little vacation."
"It’s okay, they’re my friends, they’re not going to hurt you."
"I’m so happy you’re here, I can hardly speak."
"You taught me how to be peculiar. Maybe now I can teach you how to be normal."
"And it occurred to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in the English language. We have time."