Colleen Vanderlinden > Quotes

“I don't need to resort to threats when I have facts on my side.”
― Colleen Vanderlinden, Home

“When you see which choices, which decisions, a being makes, you see what is truly meaningful to them. They may say many things, but the choices they make let you see their souls.”
― Colleen Vanderlinden, Broken

“I had no doubt anymore that I was not so much a body that was home to a soul, but a soul that wore a body.”
― Colleen Vanderlinden, Home

“I knew now that what makes sense is being with someone who makes you happy, who feels like home.”
― Colleen Vanderlinden, Home

“While I was strong enough to handle just about any damn thing that came my way, it felt good to have a little something to hold onto during the darkest times.”
― Colleen Vanderlinden, Home

“the danger in loving is in giving someone the ability to destroy you. Because you cannot truly love without giving up some of yourself, and it is a leap of faith to hope that the person you give it to cares enough for it that you keep yourself all in one piece.”
― Colleen Vanderlinden, Betrayer

“The Fates put the pieces into place. They may put two people in the same city, but they don’t determine whether those people love or hate each other, should they meet. They put the game pieces on the board, but we decide how to play the game.”
― Colleen Vanderlinden, Broken

“There's no wrong way to be. As long as you're true to you. That's all that matters.”
― Colleen Vanderlinden, Home

“The scent of you. It’s everywhere except where I want it most.” “Which is?” Shannen asked, her voice barely a whisper. He pressed his lips to the place where her pulse thundered at the base of her throat. “All over me,” he murmured.”
― Colleen Vanderlinden, Exile

“I’d swept the whole thing first with a regular broom and then with the besom grandma had made me when I’d turned sixteen, cleansing the shop and kitchen of all negative energies. I’d sprinkled salt and sage along all the windowsills and across the doorways and cleaned the glass in all of the windows with a mix of sun water, and vinegar that I’d steeped citrus peels in, to add to the positive energy and vitality of the bakery. It felt renewed, clean, and happy.”
― Colleen Vanderlinden, Ace of Wands