Pascale Lacelle > Quotes

“A book was all it ever took to hold him captive.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Dreams are manifestations of our unconscious desires.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“You learn to live in the dark when you have no choice. Can you blame me for making the darkness mine?”
― Pascale Lacelle, Stranger Skies

“Justice and revenge are the same when you're willing to sacrifice all these lives for it.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“The idea of saying goodbye was unbearable. Emory had walked back into his life, carved herself a place in it despite all his trepidations, and though Baz doubted he would ever feel fearless like Kai or Romie, he knew Emory had made him want to fear less. This girl who’d laughed in fields of gold, who’d made sunflowers bloom, who’d looked up at the stars with him and thought they were lost should trying to find their way home.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“There is a scholar on these shores who breathes stories. He inhales all manner of them, holds each one in his soul, and when his lungs are too full of words, he exhales at last, daring to breathe his own stories to life. Thus he breathes in words and breathes more out, in and out and in again like the measured rhythm of the sea, until one day he finds a peculiar book that sets even the tides off their fated course.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“A book was all it ever took to hold him captive, make him forget to eat, to sleep, to exist in his own body.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Remember not to veer from the path, dreamling.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“though Baz doubted he would ever be fearless like Kai or Romie, he knew Emory had made him want to fear less.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Naturally, nothing contented him more than libraries.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“And here in the dark, with the angry sea and Dovermere's looming presence, with the crushing sadness and guilt and dream madness pressing down on her, this was the only thing that felt real. The sound of her name on his lips, the solidity of his embrace, the faint smell of coffee and bergamot that enveloped her, soothing, grounding, familiar.”
― Pascale Lacelle

“Him helping you with this? It goes against all his precious rules. Which means he trusts you. And that’s the thing about Brysden: under all that worry, all that anxiety, his loyalty, once you earn it, is unswerving.” He leaned in threateningly close. “Don’t fuck that up.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“But she was a mystery wrapped in charm, wit, and quick smiles.”
― Pascale Lacelle

“His voice was conjured night. It was a dark wood at midnight, the chilling howl of a beast; it was the quiet of dreams and the pull of nightmares, lovely and frightening all at once.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“But Kai slept. Truly slept, drifting from the sleepscape and falling into a magicless slumber, for once, unencumbered by nightmares.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Stranger Skies

“Music is not tied to voice or hearing." His mother tapped the center of his chest. "It resides here. If the Soulless One were to take your affinity for music, you would stop feeling it in your soul. And a soul without song is no soul at all.”
― Pascale Lacelle

“Even if she had been a Seer able to divine the future - had she learned of the horrible fate that awaited her and her friends, had she known that the tide would take them by surprise and pull them all to their watery end - even then, she still would have gone, because she had heard the call of something more and could do nothing now but answer. She would see this through no matter the cost. Even if it must end in death.
Death, after all, was just another beginning; the start of a new adventure, something unprecedented to add to her collection.
A sea of stars, an ocean of dreams, the swift rising of the tide - it made no difference, what did it in the end.
Romie always knew her destiny lay in drowning.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Uncharted Dreams

“Then what are you saying?” “That maybe everything you went through changed you. Both of you. People grow apart. That doesn’t mean they can’t find their way back to each other.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Stranger Skies

“He’d stopped time for her”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Do you ever notice how sometimes, the people we’re closest to don’t know us at all? They see the version of us that they want to see and don’t bother knowing the version of us that we want to be.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Stranger Skies

“She was the sea, moving in and out of his life, between this world and the next. But what was the sea if it had no shore to return to?”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“There’s only so much of life you can experience through books”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Magic sustains us like air,” his father had taught him long ago. “Go without it and you suffocate. Keep too much in your lungs and you’ll burst. The key,” he’d said”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“But books allowed Baz to dream without fear of falling.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides