Kayla Bashe > Quotes

“I realized it was a choice between being the perfect girl they expected and living a happy and productive life.”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow

“Someone once said that there's nothing more poetic than the death of a beautiful woman, but I think that's only true until the women get revenge. And I'm done with spending my days hidden away behind heavy curtains and wrought-iron gates. I want to burst forth into the sun and unfold and blossom there, like a waterfall cutting through rock. No more beautiful dead girls. No more sculptures made of women's bones. Never again.”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow

“That’s not your truth. You’re thinking what you ought to think. What you’ve been told to think. Not what you really believe.”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow

“In live girls dead girls live and live and live.”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow

“The drug used here- we call it "Resignation-" makes people compliant. Life is better if everyone always listens to the people in charge, am I right?”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow

“I’m glad you’re here, she thought. You make me look less strange- no, it’s not that, not quite exactly. It’s that when I look at you, I remember that strange can be wonderful.”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow

“It was not empathy. It was mercilessness turned to mathematical art.”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow

“words are the only way things ever get changed. Even the most revolutionary and violent of actions- it all starts with words. And while I don't know if my words in particular will do anything, you bet I'll try.”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow

“Katriona never liked being touched, but touching sometimes felt like another thing entirely. When she slipped her hand into Anthea's, she was startled by the sheer aliveness of the other girl's soul - like green fire, or the heartbeat of a mighty tree - and she was startled, too, by how right it felt to be near her.”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow

“Privately, she’d liked the idea of mixing her books with Katriona’s own, of choosing books together in out-of-the-way little shops, of reading to each other before bed,”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow

“I want to see the world. I'll adopt dogs everywhere I go, and they'll follow me like a menagerie and wait for me outside of restaurants. I'll solve the murder of an emperor, and write twenty-one books on why and how people kill.”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow