117 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn’t change where you were from. But still, you didn’t have to stay there. You didn’t have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in the DAR, or the Gatli...”
“There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch the...”
“I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”
“I guess the sky in real life isn’t actually perfect. Maybe that’s what makes it so perfect.”
“Sometimes moving forward changes what's behind you.”
“My mother was lost to me, but I wasn’t lost. She had anchored me, to Amma, my father, Link, Gatlin, before she left. I felt her in the streets, my house, the library, even the pantry.”
“Maybe magic wasn’t the magic thing, when you grew up with it”
“The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people...”
“One thing I’d realized in the last year was that there were some things no one could give you permission to do. All the same, it didn’t mean you couldn’t or shouldn’t do them— particularly when it ...”
“Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.”
“But when you’re in love, you’re not in control of what you think or say or do. And there is nothing I love more than control, and nothing I love less than not having it. So you tell me —what is a p...”
“Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?”
“Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.”
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I’ve been learning how to die.”
“She closed her eyes, and I closed mine, and even though we weren't holding hands, it felt like we were.Because what we had, we knew.”
“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
“Sometimes I didn’t think the world was worth it.Saving.Sometimes I didn’t think I was worth it either.”
