There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sin…

- Ilsa J. Bick

The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.

- Ilsa J. Bick

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

- Ilsa J. Bick

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being go…

- Ilsa J. Bick

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

- Ilsa J. Bick

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

- Ilsa J. Bick

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

- Ilsa J. Bick

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

- Ilsa J. Bick

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

- Ilsa J. Bick