Quotes of: Kansas-city Keyword

I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.

City of Lost Souls

There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.

City of Lost Souls

And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.

City of Stairs

Not that the man needed clothes. God meant for that piece of perfection to have nothing masking the luscious, tanned flesh stretched taut over beautiful muscles.

City of Sin

I don't have the time or the energy to hate,' says Shara. 'I only wish to understand. People are what they are.

City of Stairs

...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.

City of Stairs

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

City of Stairs

You stole a boat,” she snapped. “What am I doing with you, you boat-stealing lunatic?

City of Lost Souls

One has no room for vengeance,' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.

City of Stairs

Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.” “Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

City of Lost Souls

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

City of Lost Souls

Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend.

City of Lost Souls

Sweet pea?'" Alec said. "I was just trying it out." Alec shook his head. "No." Magnus shrugged. "I'll keep at it.

City of Lost Souls

You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.

City of Lost Souls

The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness.

City of Stairs

I thought you were dead,” she went on. “I saw you fall down, and—I thought you were dead.

City of Lost Souls

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

City of Thieves

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.

The City

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities