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Ann Aguirre, born on August 27, 1970, is a renowned science fiction and fantasy author from the United States. Her works are known for their unique worldviews and rich imagination, which have won her a dedicated fan base.

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Famous Ann Aguirre Quotes

“Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits—and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Doe Helping Lovers Limits Wings Exceed Clip

Book:Killbox

Source: Killbox

“Have you ever watched a child learning to walk? Before this week, I never had, but there's a certain grace to it. Well, if not grace, then tenacity. Fall down nine times--get up ten. And the tenth time you get where you're going, you don't stop, not for obstacles, not for other people telling you to stop. You don't listen to anything but that inner voice until you arrive where you want to be.”

People Ifs Want Wells Children Certain Fall Voice Walks Grace Week Ten Obstacles Nine Get Up Falling Down Tenacity Inner Voice Children Learning

Author:Ann Aguirre

“A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.”

Ifs Instinct Partners Ignorant Huntress

Book:Mortal Danger

Source: Mortal Danger

“A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.”

Ifs Two Might Sky Silver Hung Curves Brighter Specks Daggers

Book:The Razorland Trilogy

Source: The Razorland Trilogy

“We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.”

Ifs Feels I Can Pain Sound Share Mines Distance Glasses Joints Amplify Crescendo Distance Apart

Book:Aftermath

Source: Aftermath

“For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.”

Ifs Needs Heart I Can Soul Body Sound Crazy Bears My Heart Wounds My Soul Scar Fathom

Book:Aftermath

Source: Aftermath

“I always have someplace else I’d rather be, even if I don’t know where that is, yet.”

Ifs Knows

Book:Aftermath

Source: Aftermath

“I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.”

Ifs Thinking Explosions Triggers Wreckage Minefields

Book:Grimspace

Source: Grimspace

“Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.”

Ifs Made Terrible Weak

Book:Outpost

Source: Outpost

“People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Answers Make Sense Wrong Answers

Book:Outpost

Source: Outpost

“Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)”

Ifs Different Roles Growing Fit Died Slides Deuces

Book:Outpost

Source: Outpost

“If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Might Strong Morning Clear Imagine Bed Opposites Gender Lovely Clear Thinking

Book:Outpost

Source: Outpost

“What was the good of having such a fine home if you weren't willing to fight for it?”

Ifs Home Fighting Willing Fine

Book:Outpost

Source: Outpost

“In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.”

Ifs Opportunity Strong Grows Perfect Weak Protected Survived

Book:Enclave

Source: Enclave

“If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed”

Ifs Girl Bits Half Steps Cutting Hair Needed Beats Female Salvation Scared Impulse Vicious Huntress Deuces

Book:Outpost

Source: Outpost

“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.”

Ifs Want Said Eye Winning Gone Want Me Pale You Want Me Second Best

Book:Outpost

Source: Outpost

“If you don't tell me what's on your mind, I can't guess”

Ifs Mind I Can

Book:Outpost

Source: Outpost

“But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.”

Ifs World Wish Dark Empty Casts Holes Horde

Book:Horde

Source: Horde

“If this is the last time, let me say it so you never forget. I will always love you, Deuce. No matter where souls go, mine will be looking for you, solnyshko moyo." "No. I want a promise instead. Promise you'll fight like you never have, so when the dying stops, you'll be on your feet looking for me here." "I swear.”

Ifs Want Soul Matter Lasts Fighting Forget Feet Dying Love You Mines Like You Promise Let Me Never Forget Swear Last Time Always Love You Will Always Love You I Will Always Love You Deuces

Author:Ann Aguirre

“Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.”

Ifs Sometimes Pain Felt Bears Perfection

Book:Horde

Source: Horde

“They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.”

Ifs May Might Moving Memories Deals Remains Being True Dust Permit Funeral Minors Bye Venice Good Bye Rite

Book:Aftermath

Source: Aftermath

About the Author

Born: August 27, 1970
Known for: Author
Quotes: 176

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