Lexa Hillyer > Quotes

“Life doesn't always hand you the answers. Sometimes the best you can do is make a decision and stick to it. Tali's dad always says that the best business decisions rely on intuition, after all. There isn't always a right move, just a move that feels right.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Proof of Forever

“No matter how much you try, you cannot change the future. You cannot change. Not really. That's the problem with optimism, with hope. You end up disappointed.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Proof of Forever

“One night reviled, Before break of morn, Amid the roses wild, All tangled in thorns, The shadow and the child Together were born. The”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“You know, I used to love looking at the stars at night. I used to think they were put there to guide us. Now I know they are just watching and winking, mute observers, bemused by our failures and our loss.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“Why should I learn of another world, a vaster world, if it means regretting my whole life until now? Who wants to be made to loathe what they have? Small as it is, my life is mine.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“It's crazy to think that they've been so close to a way out all this time, but have never known it.
Then again, she realizes, perhaps everyone has the key to her own prison. Maybe freedom is just a matter of knowing the right story, of being brave enough to say the right words in the right order at the right time.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“We sculpt truth out of the world's formlessness, and thus it is often precisely what we already believe that comes to pass.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Winter Glass

“Why should I want to learn fo another world, a vaster world, if it means regretting my whole life until now? Who wants to be made to loath what they have? Small as it is, my life is mine.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“And she has never cared about the odd bruises and scrapes from falling or fumbling her way home–these are simply the world's way of proving its own existence, the souvenirs of a life actually lived.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“Everyone around her—everyone on earth, in fact—is constantly pursuing his or her own separate journey through life, going mostly unnoticed. She’s just one of infinite possibilities and realities. She plays a minor, passing role in Uma’s life—if that.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Proof of Forever

“The not-yet-ness tastes sweeter than the thing you're waiting for.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“He waves and murmurs good-bye to her and her servant, Byrne, wondering if he will miss them, and whether any of us will ever find what we are searching for, or if it is simply the searching for that makes us who we are.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Winter Glass

“The kiss had been both surprising and seamless, both endless and somehow fleeting. His lips were warm and soft, so unlike the other, more calloused parts of him she was used to. His tongue was there, communicating with her own in a foreign language—and there was so much, so much to say with just their bodies, with just their lips.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“It's neither the past nor the future- everything that has happened before now mashes up to everything that will happen one day, and she feels endless: young and ancient at the same time, like she's always existed, like she's shining brilliantly.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Proof of Forever

“For as much as everyone lives in fear that he or she might be destined for tragic ends, Malfleur was equally revolted by the idea of a happily ever after. Perhaps because both actually suggested the same thing to her: an ending.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Winter Glass

“Mud. Murk. Darkness and blackness and bog land and fog so thick it entered the folds of the mind. This was Isabelle's world as a child.
Gradually, though, she discovered darkness was not an absence of light but a living thing, an infinitely tangible substance to roll around and dig into.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“Sommeil gives her that exact feeling: those brief hours when you are holding an unread story in your hands and don't yet know how it will end. You would be content if the biscuits never rose and were never consumed, the irises in the garden never bloomed and faded, the rain hovered but never fell. The not-yet-ness tastes sweeter than the thing you're waiting for.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“She's been so blind. To think she was a prisoner of circumstances, that it was her lack of voice, a jealous faerie bargain, that held her back all these years. Really, it has always been her own obedience - her desire to please, to do everything right, to follow instead of lead - that has stopped her from truly living.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“She gets back into bed, either to sleep and dream, or else to wake up form this nightmare, but neither happens. Instead, she lies awake, the starling's words lingering in her ears. Useless.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire