Bethany Hagen > Quotes

“I could tell you were a reader when I first saw you," David said. "You have that dreamy look in your eye, like you're wishing yourself onto a page. It's easy to see in the way you hesitate before answering my questions, before asking any of your own. You're not used to talking to us flesh-and-blood types”
― Bethany Hagen, Landry Park

“I wanted to bathe myself in that burn, to let the radiation take my skin and flesh and bones until I was nothing but charged particles dancing in space.”
― Bethany Hagen, Landry Park

“Do you have so many people that you care about that you can afford to be callous to them?”
― Bethany Hagen, Landry Park

“A spirit cannot be whole if it willfully ignores the suffering of others" -Jack”
― Bethany Hagen, Landry Park

“Even hard people have soft spots..." -Madeline”
― Bethany Hagen, Jubilee Manor

“No one can open their eyes to truth and then continue to live as they are. It would tear them apart" -Jack”
― Bethany Hagen, Landry Park

“If you do not act according to your conscience, you risk becoming complicit in the misery" -Jack”
― Bethany Hagen, Landry Park

“I could tell you were a reader when I first saw you. You have that dreamy look in your eye, like you're wishing yourself onto a page" -David”
― Bethany Hagen, Landry Park

“Sharing blood doesn't automatically make you family" -Madeline”
― Bethany Hagen, Jubilee Manor

“Like a spider on the ceiling, his presence would make me anxious, but even more worrisome was his absence..." -Madeline”
― Bethany Hagen, Jubilee Manor

“Don't fill yourself with useless guilt. You are a product of the people who raised you, and the fact that you do feel remorse means that you've already shown yourself to be more human than most of the gentry" -Jack”
― Bethany Hagen, Landry Park

“No victory comes without sacrifice" -Madeline”
― Bethany Hagen, Jubilee Manor

“It's not easy. But we've never done the easy thing when another past was more logical, have we?" -Madeline”
― Bethany Hagen, Jubilee Manor

“The illusion of perfection—that’s all he wanted. He didn’t care how cracked and confused I was inside, as long as I played my part.”
― Bethany Hagen, Landry Park

“It's easier to be stabbed in the back than fall on the dagger yourself, you see.”
― Bethany Hagen, Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles