Lisette Auton > Quotes

“How could they let someone so evil in? Maybe it’s that no matter how cruel the world can be, it’s ours too, and we need to claim a piece of it. You can’t do that when you’re hidden away.”
― Lisette Auton, The Secret of Haven Point

“My beautiful headstrong you. Things can begin as a favour, but then they can transform. They don’t have to stay one thing. Nothing ever does. It doesn’t matter about beginnings, it’s where you end up that counts.”
― Lisette Auton, The Secret of Haven Point

“It’s odd how we use some words even when they’re not accurate. We try our best to make words right here; they’re important. They show you care and you understand. Take for example: ‘walking across this room towards her’. I’m walking it, while some other people here wheel or crawl. So if I was talking about all us Wrecklings, I’d just say ‘moving’ instead. Cap’n says words are mighty. That they’re sometimes used by powerful people to make other people appear weaker, even when they’re the ones with lionhearts. Cap’n can be a pain about many things, but I think he’s right about that.”
― Lisette Auton, The Secret of Haven Point

“I still haven’t told my gang about all of the stuff he said about us in the diary. That’s the sort of stuff that breaks people here. Not our bodies or brains, but the way outsiders think about them.”
― Lisette Auton, The Secret of Haven Point