Martina Boone > Quotes

“It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion

“We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion

“Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion

“But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion

“But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion

“Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion

“Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?"
"Not particularly. You have that effect on people.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion

“Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.”
― Martina Boone

“It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.”
― Martina Boone, Persuasion

“It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.”
― Martina Boone, Persuasion

“Things, and people, were always more beautiful when you were afraid to lose them.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion

“Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person.”
― Martina Boone, Persuasion

“Perceptions were fickle things, as formless as smoke and just as dangerous.”
― Martina Boone, Persuasion

“So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them.”
― Martina Boone, Persuasion

“I’ve been out with enough girls to know what I want. I know. You and me together? We’re not the same plain vanilla let’s-date-while-we’re-in-high-school, let’s-go-to-prom, let’s-promise-we’ll-talk-in-college relationship. We’re more like those fireworks on the Fourth of July that keep exploding with new bursts every time they’re done. Before we know it, we’ll be in rocking chairs side by side on the porch, holding hands and watching a houseful of great grandchildren chasing blue ghost fireflies on the lawn.”
― Martina Boone, Persuasion

“You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.”
― Martina Boone, Persuasion

“Barrie wanted to fall into him, her lost to his found, her need to his want. Kissing was like the physical form of magic, all potential and the sense that anything might happen. When she was kissing Eight, she felt like she could fly.”
― Martina Boone, Persuasion

“Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.”
― Martina Boone, Illusion

“Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery.”
― Martina Boone, Illusion

“When you loved someone, you couldn’t hold back. Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe.”
― Martina Boone, Illusion

“Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.”
― Martina Boone, Illusion

“Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?”
― Martina Boone, Illusion

“Knowing something in your head and knowing it deep down where fear lives are two different things.”
― Martina Boone, Illusion

“But you can't lose someone you truly love. Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of to many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion

“You didn’t find strength when you couldn’t live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you thought was possible.”
― Martina Boone, Illusion

“Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.”
― Martina Boone, Illusion

“You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.”
― Martina Boone, Illusion

“Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.”
― Martina Boone, Illusion

“As long as you loved somebody, each kiss was hope and wonder, but it was also the potential for good-bye.”
― Martina Boone, Illusion

“In so many ways, for so many people, freedom was still an illusion. Barrie thought of the statistics she had read about how many women and children were still enslaved all over the world. Now— not three hundred years ago— and she wondered how it was possible that so little could change. Sometimes it seemed like the world was sliding backward and no one was noticing.”
― Martina Boone, Illusion