“Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“There’s always room for love. Even if it’s as small as a crack in the door.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Love is a risk worth taking.
I'd waited an eternity for this.
I'd have waited all over again if I had to.
I was meant to be kiss this boy, designed to be held by him.
All the careful postures I held melted away, and I pulled him closer.
We were stars.
We were music.
We were time.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“It was like staring at a piece of art or the stars in the sky. I just had to watch him.
-Kahlen, The Siren”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Wanting to cry doesn't mean you can.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“She would want me to forget all about him. But how could eyes not notice the light? How could lungs not acknowledge the air? There are just some things you can't ignore.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“She told me to live. . . . I didn’t know how to tell Her that simply being alive was not enough to be called living.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Instead of worrying about taking, we should worry about giving. We can’t stop the take. But we can do a hell of a lot about the give.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“We were stars, we were music, we were time.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you don’t, it fills you up with its emptiness.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“It seems to me that we value individuality, but only to a point. When what sets one person apart from another is beyond our understanding or becomes too much to handle, we dismiss the quirk and the soul that accompanies it to give ourselves the greatest comfort. What does that accomplish?”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Life is pointless. Love is pointless. And still, wouldn’t I do every second of it all over again?”
“I’m guessing yes.“
“Undoubtedly. Yes.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Life was just a collection of small decisions”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“It was the color of ice and honey and sky and rain mixed together into a sheet of flawless glass with broken frothy edges that tickled my feet”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Am I talking too much?” He paused, staring into my eyes, genuine worry coloring his face.
I shook my head. No, I thought, I’d listen to you talk about nearly anything. You make phone calls sound like an adventure.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“And you, you make me feel like I could do the stupidest thing in the world, and you’d still like me how I am.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“I’d waited an eternity for this. I’d have waited all over again if I had to. I was meant to kiss this boy, designed to be held by him.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“We'll figure this out, I promise. I won't let you sink.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Come throw your heart into the waves
Your soul is lost, and still it saves
Drink me in and come undone
Trade a thousand lives for one
Come away, drink it in
Drink and sink and let it end
Drink and sink and let it end
You are no more, you are no less
For all must die, all must rest
Bring your body unto me
Let your graveyard be the sea
Come away and drink it in
Drink and sink and let it end
Drink and sink and let it end”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“It’s weird, all the things that go into that feeling of being home.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“I could tell in his face that I could burn the house down, and he’d just get out marshmallows and thank me for the lovely flame. I’m not sure I could make a mistake big enough for him not to forgive.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Wanting to cry doesn’t mean you can. Or at least not in any way that can give you some sort of satisfaction. It’s a luxury really. The same goes for songs and laughter, or the words whispered in the ear of a friend.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“I held the water to my chest, and I loved.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“For a small period of time, she was the only one who understood what I was feeling. She made me feel less isolated in my sadness.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“I picked up another book, and we sat there in the happiest silence I’d ever known.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Akinli: You never told me your favorite color before you left
Kahlen: So many, but mostly I like the color of autumn
Akinli: The color of autumn...yea how everything looks like it's on fire
Kahlen: But it's dying! Death never looked so lovely”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“I'm not sure what it is, but you look like you've made and broken a lot of things and then made them all over again.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn’t alone.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Devil in Winter
“Virtually everything we were told in Indonesia turned out not to be true, sometimes almost immediately. The only exception to this was when we were told that something would happen immediately, in which case it turned out not to be true over an extended period of time.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from Last Chance to See
“I've been at the place where it seems like the only way left is down.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”
― Aristotle, quote from The Nicomachean Ethics
“Sometimes we need our pain. We need it to call our own.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
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