Books may well be the only true magic.
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
It doesn’t matter what people tell you. It doesn’t matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.
When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you’re with me always.
People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you’ve had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they’re spoken and you can never take them back.
Just because something is unspoken doesn’t mean that it disappears.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you’re dreaming of butterflies.
The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.