Gena Showalter citations

“To answer your question, you want me because I'm made of awesome.”

“There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.”

“Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.”

“You are such a chick.”
I widened my eyes in mock surprise.
“No way. Are you sure?”

“Cole chuckled, saying, “Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.”

“When is your birthday?” (…)
Wide silver-gold eyes swung to him. “You don’t know?”
“No.”
Pouting, she twirled a strand of her hair. “How can you not know?”
“Do you know mine?” he asked.
“Of course I do. It’s the day you met me.”

“Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.”

“Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?”

“My fur is silky, damn it.”

“Hate is too mild of a word. But it's nothing personal, I don't think.”

“To you I belong. My heart beats only for you. No other will tempt me, from this day and beyond. To you I belong.”

“Do you know the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

"Wrong. That's the definition of determination.”

“Let’s play a little game I like to call Cole’s in Charge and Ali’s Not.”

“Those we love, we can grow to hate. And life… life can be perfect one minute and in shambles the next.”

“I think I need to avoid the world today. There’s no way I
can adult.”

“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”

“You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.”

“Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.”

“People are the most difficult thing in the world to change”

“… the devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left…”

“I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?"
A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway."
"While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.”

“I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.”

“Don't look now, but that's my ex over there."
Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked.
"Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?”

“I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?”

“Demon?” Gwen gasped out. Her back jerked ramrod-straight, and her face leeched of
color. “Did you just say demon?”

Oh, uh…did I say that?” Strider once again glanced around the plane helplessly. “No, no.
I think I said seaman.”

“That's because I'm made of awesome."

"And dipped in awesome."

"And sprinkled with awesome."

"Gods, I love the taste of awesome.”

“You keep running and one day when you stop running your going to fall, and I'm going to be there to catch you.”

“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.”

“Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman.

-Jillian's mother”