Anya Allyn > Quotes

“You want to know everything? Look at yourself. You discover a truth and can barely function.”
― Anya Allyn, Dollhouse

“Philomena spun a tale about a butterfly that turned back into a caterpillar—saying that the butterfly would rather live in the cocoon for years than fly under the sun for only a few short days.
“Butterflies don’t last,” said Philomena solemnly.”
― Anya Allyn, Dollhouse

“Anything you can think of, anything you can imagine- is real.. somewhere. We dream of such things, here on earth, never realizing in our dream-state our minds are peering into other worlds.”
― Anya Allyn, Paper Dolls

“The green fractals of the forest and the eons of faint star clusters above—my math’s teacher’s order in the universe—were nothing like the thoughts that jumped at me like thieves. When your friend has a boyfriend, you are supposed to back off.”
― Anya Allyn

“I tried to force myself to say goodnight, get up and walk away. But the words wouldn’t form. The world closed in, grew small and tight—the space within a snow globe. Cradling my arms into my chest, I leaned forward, and my mouth found his. His lips were cold, his body tensing.”
― Anya Allyn, Dollhouse

“I've heard that the walls of old houses sometimes hold onto voices - and play them back at odd times.”
― Anya Allyn, Dollhouse

“None of us moved for a moment, and I knew why. The possibility of finding Aisha like that was too much, too grisly.”
― Anya Allyn, Dollhouse

“Things go round and round. Everything comes again. Until someone does something so differently that they change everything.”
― Anya Allyn, Music Box

“Her ghostly heart knows no sorrow
Human fear held fast in chains
Surrender all you once held dear
Dance and dream again tomorrow”
― Anya Allyn, Dollhouse

“Obviously, I'm going to have to learn to speak mime if this friendship is going to work.”
― Anya Allan

“Death does not bring the night, dear ones. Death brings daybreak.”
― Anya Allyn, Paper Dolls

“Laughter spread around the room like an airborne disease. Disease. I shivered. That was the intriguing thought; I could almost hear the sound their bodies would make against the floor when it hit.”
― Anya Allan

“It's kind of a rule with us dogs. Belly rubs equal instant friendship.”
― Anya Allan

“Loss and gain, gain and loss. No one stayed forever and no one remained the same forever.”
― Anya Allyn, Music Box

“again. I hadn’t had a boyfriend yet—not even close. I wasn’t sure why. Evie said it was because I always looked so intense.”
― Anya Allyn, Dollhouse

“The misting rain from earlier had moistened the hair on the back of his neck into tiny curls. Everything about him was off-kilter, from the wiry slant of his back—where his backpack swung from one shoulder—to the carelessness of his voice. He was the most real person I’d ever known.”
― Anya Allyn, Dollhouse

“I realize the terrible screaming is coming from me. What’s the matter with me?”
― Anya Allyn, Paper Dolls

“His dark gaze bled everything from me—like a tide. Like he was the moon and I the ocean. He was so different from Zach. With Zach, I used to feel warm and safe, even though safe ended up being the last thing I was with him. But Ethan was always like something wild and without bounds. He could never compromise, or offer me safety—any more than a forest or a night could become other than what they were.”
― Anya Allyn, Marionette

“Is Zoe slipping into an imaginary world of her own? Or are the things she's experiencing terrifying real?  ”
― Anya Allyn, Paracosm - Bleath: The Hauntings

“Night in the country was a completely different animal to night in the city.”
― Anya Allyn, Paracosm - Bleath: The Hauntings

“When we can fight, we will fight, and when we can no longer fight, we will endure.”
― Anya Allyn, The Dark Carousel Books 2-4

“For what is life, but a plunge from the high diving board into the fantastical and the unknown?”
― Anya Allyn, Marionette

“You can chop and dice an apple, and put it all back together, in a fashion. But once the pieces are exposed to the atmosphere, they all start to brown and wither.”
― Anya Allyn, The Dark Carousel Books 2-4

“After a few moments, I’m floating. But the hurt won’t go away.”
― Anya Allyn, Paper Dolls