Listen, and you’ll hear a story being told, one you may need to know.
She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.
Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you’re not careful. They can eat you alive.
People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time.
I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe and with that single action changes the weather halfway across the world.
Maria Owens did what she did for a reason. She was young and she thought damning anyone who loved us would protect us. But what she had with that terrible man wasn’t love. She didn’t understand that when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it’s what life is, my girl. We all come to ruin, we turn to dust, but whom we love is the thing that lasts.
Franny entwined her legs with his. She understood why ancient monsters were often made of two creatures, with two hearts and minds. There was strength in such a combination of opposites.
I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.
You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.
A lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years.
They may be nothing like you, he had written, they may surprise you, they may even repel you when their behavior is out of control, when they climb out their windows and drink underage and break every rule, but you will love them in a way you had not thought possible before, no matter who they turn out to be.
Don’t waste time when there’s someone you love.
Truth felt light and green, but a lie sunk to the floor, heavy as metal, a substance she always avoided for it made her feel as though she was trapped behind bars.
Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.
Her one salvation was the novels she read. On nights when she thought it might be better not to be alive without Levi in the world, she opened a book and was therefore saved, discovering that a novel was as great an escape as any spell. She.
Real love was dangerous, it got you from inside and held on tight, and if you didn’t let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake.
Everyone should know exactly what everyone else is thinking and then people wouldn’t hurt each other so much.
She had lost some of who she was when she lost her beloved.
If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.
With every step I wished myself away to another life, one lived far from here.