Holly Cupala > Quotes

“When the worst happens and you still survive, it sets you free from fear.”
― Holly Cupala, Don't Breathe a Word

“At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other fly.”
― Holly Cupala, Don't Breathe a Word

“ASHES.
He had reduced me to ashes.
And now I would rise.”
― Holly Cupala, Don't Breathe a Word

“We're all family--the only family we've got. It doesn't have to be blood.”
― Holly Cupala, Don't Breathe a Word

“Ask no questions, I tell no lies.”
― Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret

“I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman with a face like a mask. Envy was a treasure-hoarding dragon, dainty and diabolical. As I sketched in the dragon's face, I gave her eyebrows like mine, my turtle necklace around its scaly neck.

Xanda drew them as cliffs and valleys, irrevocably linked pride as a mountain, envy as a valley, hating its lowness and longing to reach, overtake, conquer. She drew vanity as a volcano with an abyss at its core.”
― Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret

“It's the grit that makes the pearl.”
― Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret

“Keep your eyes on the future, because that's where the answers are. It's where the hope is.”
― Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret

“Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word I had never before dared to think about him.

Future. Hope.

And love, as the rain slowed to a misty trickle through the long and beautiful night.”
― Holly Cupala, Don't Breathe a Word

“If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?”
― Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret

“Maybe that's why he watched over all of us--because of the ones he couldn't protect, he took care of the ones he could.”
― Holly Cupala, Don't Breathe a Word

“She looked like she wanted to take her right up to the baptismal waters and introduce her to some redemption.”
― Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret

“I thought of Shelley in the hospital, how she said sometimes sadness only looked like anger and judgment. Maybe fear did too.”
― Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret

“I started to sway Lexi again when I realized she was quiet. Waiting. Both of us paused on the cusp of the unknown. I couldn't go backward or even retrace my own steps, let alone Xanda's. I could only go forward. The threads of time weren't unraveling but weaving into a tapestry -- a future, and a hope.

The only way to discover was to step into it.”
― Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret