“They were both lost and empty and fragile, in their own way. But they were still standing.”
― Isabel Curtis, quote from Before Life Happened
“Everyone's hurting, we just choose different ways to distract our suffering”
― Isabel Curtis, quote from Before Life Happened
“Does it get easier, at least?"
"No, it doesn't. You just get used to the grief.”
― Isabel Curtis, quote from Before Life Happened
“So many things die along with us and no one even notices.”
― Isabel Curtis, quote from Before Life Happened
“there is still good in the world. And if you can't see it, go make it”
― Isabel Curtis, quote from Before Life Happened
“She was a broken vase surrounded by broken glass: damaged and dangerous at the same time.”
― Isabel Curtis, quote from Before Life Happened
“Someone once said that you should be careful what you wish for,
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because you might end up getting it. And Hayden had to be very careful. Because even wrong opportunities can come knocking at your door, and they are often disguised as the chance you've been waiting for your whole life.”
― Isabel Curtis, quote from Before Life Happened
“Someone once said that you should be careful what you wish for because you might end up getting it. And Hayden had to be very careful. Because even wrong opportunities can come knocking at your door, and they are often disguised as the chance you've been waiting for your whole life.”
― Isabel Curtis, quote from Before Life Happened
“Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Wake
“Attend to your own fate, Mare Barrow.” “And that is?” “To rise. And rise alone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“The grey sheep have closed their eyes, but the mastiff sees the truth. Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, an age for gods and heroes.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Song of Ice and Fire
“But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can’t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Lightning
“She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Trickster's Queen
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