“Ivy, I pray that it's you reading this.
And if you are, well, I suppose you're the new me... - Scarlet, in her diary”
― Sophie Cleverly, quote from The Lost Twin
“I don't want to be lost forever. - Scarlet, in her diary”
― Sophie Cleverly, quote from The Lost Twin
“First, she tipped the cold, sloppy leftovers from her plate into my lap. I heard her say 'whoops!', as if she'd forgotten how her own hands worked.
...
I stood up, my dress dripping with food, and slapped her as hard as I could.
Penny screamed and clutched at her cheek. The whole hall went silent. I shook out my stinging hand.
"Whoops!" I echoed.”
― Sophie Cleverly, quote from The Lost Twin
“And the reflection didn't move.
It stared at me.
She stared at me.
And then Scarlet's hand moved too, and met mine against the cool glass.”
― Sophie Cleverly, quote from The Lost Twin
“I can pick this... My governess used to shut me in the airing cupboard when I wouldn't do my sums. But I was resourceful! - Ariadne”
― Sophie Cleverly, quote from The Lost Twin
“Her eyes are like a snake's. - Scarlet, in her diary, about Violet”
― Sophie Cleverly, quote from The Lost Twin
“That witch... It was her. She took the diary. It has to be. I'm going to kill her... Penny. - Ivy”
― Sophie Cleverly, quote from The Lost Twin
“Where are your manners, Miss Grey?" - Miss Fox
"Probably in the same place where you left yours." - Ivy”
― Sophie Cleverly, quote from The Lost Twin
“Life would be easy if common sense ruled; but sometimes the easy way doesn't feel like the right way.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from False Memory
“But I’m quite sure of one thing: If it’s possible to do something, sooner or later someone’s going to do it.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Day Watch
“He was as fucked up as a man could be and still be walking around.”
― Linda Castillo, quote from Sworn to Silence
“Lydia arched a chiding brow at him. “My father didn’t tell me anything and I’m still angry at him for that. But I remembered you. Even though I didn’t understand it, I felt you with me constantly. And if that wasn’t enough…” She took his hand and placed it on her stomach so he could feel the slight swelling there. “You left me with a very special gift.”
The news slammed into him harder than one of Noir’s blows. She was pregnant?
With his child.
Unimaginable joy ripped through him as he felt the slightest fluttering of his son or daughter moving inside her.
But that only solidified his resolve. “You won’t be safe if I leave.”
She cupped his now healed face in her hands. “No one ever is, Seth. No matter how hard we try. No matter how much we plan and prepare. There will always be an enemy at the door and a storm trying to knock us down. Life’s not about security. It’s about picking up the pieces after it’s all over and carrying on. We can choose to be cowards who fear letting someone inside us, and do that alone. Or we can choose to be brave and let someone stand by our side and help us. I’m not a coward. I never have been. And there is nowhere else I plan to be, except beside you. Forever. Be it on earth, or here in this hellhole if that’s what it takes. I will always be with you.”
In that moment, he realized he didn’t need his swallow to fly him away from pain.
All he needed was her.
And she was right. It took much more courage to lay his heart open to someone else than it did to keep it guarded. To let someone else in to that place deep inside where only they could do you harm.
Only Lydia could destroy him.
And yet only she gave him life … at least one worth living.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from The Guardian
“It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Forbidden
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