479 quotes found
Author · American · 1982
American author (born 1982)
“That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak.”
“Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the ai...”
“Please understand. Please forgive me.I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.Don't hate me.I still love you.”
“He pauses for only a fraction of a second. Then he leans forward and presses his lips to mine, and the whole world powers off, the moon and the rain and the sky and the streets, and its just the tw...”
“Is it true? I ask him.Is what true? His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.That you still love me, I say, breathless. I need to know.Alex nods. He reaches out...”
“Up and down, up and down, a ladder of choices leading to the next choice, and the next, until suddenly you've run out of choices, and ladder, and you find time as rare and thin as air on a mountain...”
“He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to be free of unhappiness-they would make the right choice. They would obey.”
“I can't stop thinking about what Caroline said to Minna about death. It isn't an infection, she said. She might be right. Then again, we've nested in the walls like bacteria. We've taken over the h...”
“This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.”
“Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked...”
“At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.”
“Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”
“That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.”
“But those are just words, and words are just stories, and eventually, always, stories come to an end.”
“She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.The bravery was in m...”
“The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped”
“I'm scared all the time," she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't," Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either.”
“Its kind of sad, if you think about it. Like theres no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when youre no longer a kid but a...”
“You cant go home again isnt necessarily that places change but people do.”
“I don't know which is worse: that I'm home and so much is different, or that I'm home and so much feels the same.”
