“Someone created all of this, all of the beauty of the earth, all of the fragility of human life and all of the extraordinary existence of us. Choosing to believe in a god only when you are surrounded by death and destruction is to truly not know God at all.”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“Yes my love, because Eden, I have loved you avidly from the first moment I saw you and I will love you completely with all that I am until the day I die.”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“Excuse me, Ms. Matthews; you are going to be late for class if you don’t get going. Can you read the map, or are you already lost?” the stern voice of the secretary pulled me out of my stupor.
“Um, no, I can read,” I said, sheepishly, still unable to take my eyes off the mysterious boy staring back.
“Of course, you can read,” she said sharply, snapping my entranced head back to reality. “Now, get to class.”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“If I was going to be treated like a child, then I was going to act like one.”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“I was sure that if he didn’t have that damn accent I would have seen through him immediately. Oh, those Brits could be so charming and manipulative with their proper way of talking.”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“The depth of longing I felt for him didn’t seem possible for someone my age.”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“I decided the poor thing loved crazy people.”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“I wanted to be the one to take you tonight. Know that I’ll be thinking of only you. “What a bunch of bull-sh--”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“stop pining over the one guy that you can’t have,”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“I wasn’t falling for it. At least that’s what I kept telling myself.”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“Someone created all of this, all of the beauty of the earth, all of the fragility of human life and all of the extraordinary existence of us. Choosing to believe in God only when you are surrounded by death and destruction is to truly not know God at all.”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“I always imagined the walk down the tall, wooden staircase, to be somewhat magical my first date when I was a little girl. Unfortunately, I never imagined my first date to be with someone who despised me, to a dance where I was sure to make a fool of myself, by orders from a Royal Prince who likes me but has been forbidden to talk to me; but I never had much of an imagination.”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“Yes, my love. Because Eden, I have loved you avidly from the first moment I saw you and I will love you completely with all that I am until the day I die,”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“Sshhh…” she responded, entering my room with a”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“I could feel my tan skin, turning translucent with nerves,”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
“felt the extra sense that came with being an”
― Rachel Higginson, quote from Reckless Magic
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“As for the myths, take anyone's life and deny that most of it is deliberate self-delusion - an aggrandizement - a mixture of lies and truth, of what was wanted and what was had, producing the necessary justification for having been granted life in the first place. I was struck like a match, Lily wrote. I had no option but to burn.
You can put a period after that. Lily did. It was the story of her life.”
― Timothy Findley, quote from The Piano Man's Daughter
“He had liked her enormously, and he loved Krug with the same passion that a big sleek long-flewed hound feels for the high-booted hunter who reeks of the marsh as he leans towards the red fire. Krug could take aim at a flock of the most popular and sublime human thoughts and bring down a wild goose any time. But he could not kill death.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Bend Sinister
“He stopped. “You're upset. I'll shut up and leave you”
― Iris Johansen, quote from The Killing Game
“Whaddaya mean 'old maids,' ha? The term is 'unclaimed treasure,' buddy, 'unclaimed treasure!”
― Laurie Notaro, quote from Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
“Who can explain just how he became the person he is? It does not happen this day or that one. It is a gradual evolution that happens largely unheralded. He simply was who he now was.”
― David Anthony Durham, quote from Acacia: The War with the Mein
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