C.L. Herman > Quotes

“Being invisible when you used to be seen...it's like being dead, but no one mourns you.”
― C.L. Herman

“Sinners who were led astray,
Wandered through the woods one day,
Stumbled right into the Gray,
Never to return.
Hear the lies our gods will tell,
The prison the Four wove so well,
But listen to us when we say,
Branches and stones, daggers and bones,
Will meet their judgement day.”
― C.L. Herman, The Devouring Gray

“Welcome to Four Paths. Nobody would stay here if they had a choice.”
― C.L. Herman, The Devouring Gray

“People could hurt each other without being monsters. And they could love each other without being saints.”
― Christine Lynn Herman, The Devouring Gray

“She wanted a world where girls did not need to grow a spine of steel just to survive. Where they could be as soft and silly as they wanted. Where they could walk into a room full of new people and see endless possibilities instead of potential threats.”
― C.L. Herman, The Deck of Omens

“Maybe the thing no one had told her about growing up was that nobody ever really became the person they’d wanted to be.”
― C.L. Herman, The Devouring Gray

“The truth is, though, that I don’t get to choose whether people believe me or not. Whether they stay or go. No matter how much I try to hold on to things… they tend to float away.”
― C.L. Herman, The Drowning Summer

“Mina didn't cancel out the terrifying, messy world. But she made it a lot less scary to live in.”
― C.L. Herman, The Drowning Summer

“If these other people could treat her like she belonged… maybe she could start to treat herself that way, too.”
― C.L. Herman, The Drowning Summer

“Evelyn liked the way it felt to cluster among the others on the beach, to be part of the same moment, bound by the same appreciation”
― C.L. Herman, The Drowning Summer

“Just once, she wanted to fall asleep in a house that felt like people were living in it instead of dying in it.”
― C.L. Herman, The Drowning Summer