Snap Quotes

“When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles,' Amelie said. 'Not one who ran away from them.'
'Snap,' Eve said.
'You know what they're talking about?' Shane asked.
'Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.”
― Rachel Caine, Fade Out

“One day I want you to look up 'insensitivity' in the dictionary," Matt said, annoyed. "I'm sure it'll do your ego wonders to see your picture printed there beside it.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Raven King

“Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings

“Some people were like rubber bands--willing to stretch but eager to snap back into place at the first opportunity.”
― Stephanie Bond, In Deep Voodoo

“So be careful when you bend over.”
― Charles Bukowski

“She snapped," they said.
"Couldn't take it anymore."
"Reached her breaking point."
We should teach our girls that snapping is okay instead of waiting for someone else to break them.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

“I guess I don't know my daughter very well. Because the Jude I knew would cut out that boy's heart for what he did to you tonight.'

At the shame of having the revel thrown in my face, I snap. 'You let me be humiliated in Faerie from the time I was a child. You've let Folk hurt me and laugh at me and mutilate me.' I hold up the hand with the missing fingertip, where one of his own guards bit it clean off. Another scar is at its centre, from where Dain forced me to stick a dagger through my hand. 'I've been glamoured and carried in to a revel, weeping and alone. As far as I can tell, the only difference between tonight and all the other nights when I endured indignities without complaint is that those benefited you, and when I endure this, it benefits me.'

Madoc looks shaken. 'I didn't know.'

'You didn't want to know,' I return.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance is found in people who, if confronted with certain truths realize that they have to accept them and thereby acknowledge evil, and that scares them. Opening up and letting the truth in might knock them off their perceived center. It is too hard, period.”
― Charles L. Bailey Jr., In the Shadow of the Cross: The True Account of My Childhood Sexual and Ritual Abuse at the Hands of a Roman Catholic Priest

“We fell wildly, passionately in love for a number of weeks, and then, in a snap, it was gone - for me, at least.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“Seriously, no. Go be weird somewhere else.” I want people to stop
hating me, not treat me like a sideshow.”
― Adriana Mather, How to Hang a Witch

“Let me know if there is anything I can do." "Yes." I pulled the shutter on the window. "Leave me alone.”
― Ella Fields, A King so Cold

“You choose the oddest times to defend her, Aetos,' Xaden all but rolls his eyes as he looks at Dain. 'And the most convenient times not to.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Me and Duncan are going down to the beach to skate. I think I'm late." "Ducan and I," she said. Leonardo rolled his eyes. "What. Ever.”
― Carol Snow, Snap

“That's your orgasm talking," I say. "You're not really in love with me."
"You can't tell me how I feel," he says. His voice gets quiet, trails off at the end. "I could be your boyfriend.”
― Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, Firsts

“Bryce wiggled her nails at the rebel. 'If I'm going to associate with losers like you, I might as well look good doing it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath