The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
Shaun David Hutchinson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The moment we forget that even the evil among us are still human is the moment we forget that even the most human among us are still evil.”
“Falling in love is about hormones and pheromones and powerful emotions that overwhelm our better judgement. Staying in love requires time and effort and knowledge and trust that has to be earned over the course of lifetimes. Falling in love is the illusion. Staying in love is the real miracle.”
“But that's life. One long tunnel. There are lights along the way. Sometimes they feel spread farther apart than others, but they're there. And when you find one, it's okay to stand under it for a while to catch your breath before marching back into the dark.”
“We make choices. We make bad choices. But we still deserve the right to choose.”
“No one is perfect, no one is flawless, and loving someone means admitting they have faults. It means loving them, not in spite of those flaws, but because of them.”
“What if you’re wrong? What if I screw up and the world burns?” Fadil shrugged. “Then I’ll buy marshmallows and we’ll watch it burn together.”
“I don't think I'm as strong as you think I am." "And I think you're stronger than you believe.”
“Up until that point everyone who gets hurt winds up fine. There's not actual loss. And then Voldemort kills Cedric Diggory and suddenly everything becomes real. We have to face the possibility that we won't all live long enough to lose our hair or become those crotchety old folks who yell at dumb kids like us. Good people die and bad people don't always get what they deserve. Death stops being this abstract concept that happens to other people, and becomes something that could happen to the people we love. Or even to us.”
“But the thing about depression is that it doesn’t create bad thoughts, it amplifies and distorts them. Depression doesn’t make me look in the mirror and see a girl who’s overweight and has too-wide hips and pudgy cheeks. Those thoughts are already there. Depression just cranks up the volume on them so loud that I can’t hear anything else.”
“What happens if the world ends?" Freddie said. "Maybe it already has," I said, "and this is it. Now we have the opportunity to start over and try to do better this time around.”
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