Ann Aguirre Want Quotations

Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.

Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.