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“Your presence is your power.”
― Gabrielle Bernstein, The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith

“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn’t know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she stumbled, it was the land who caught her. Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Still there, but deep. Kya laid her hand upon the breathing, wet earth, and the marsh became her mother.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Not waiting for the sounds of someone was a release. And a strength.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Needing people ended in hurt.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Go as far as you can—way out yonder where the crawdads sing.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Loneliness has a compass of its own.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Some parts of us will always be what we were, what we had to be to survive...”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“if you look tempting, men turn into predators.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“She hesitated; touching someone meant giving part of herself away, a piece she never got back.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Standing in the most fragile place of her life, she turned to the only net she knew - herself.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Finally, between dusk and dark, that time when the shadows were unsure,”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“THE SUN, still shy and submissive to winter,”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I won't do it, Kya, because I love you." Love. There was nothing about the word she understood.
"When, then, if not now? When can we?"
"Just not yet."
They were quiet for a moment, and then she asked, "How did you know what to do?" Head down, shy again.
"The same way you did.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“She wasn't sure she could speak. She wanted him to take her again to the place.. In case he never came back, she wanted him to take her there now.
"I'm going to miss you, Kya. Every day, all day."
"You might forget me."
"I will never forget you. Ever. You take care of the marsh till I get back, you hear? And be careful."
"I will."
"I mean it now, Kya. Watch out for folks; don't let strangers get near you.. I'll come home... I'll be back before you know it.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing / American Dirt

“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Blink, and the years fall away like leaves.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Being forgotten, she thinks, is a bit like going mad. You begin to wonder what is real, if you are real. After all, how can a thing be real if it cannot be remembered?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Do you know how to live three hundred years?” she says. And when he asks how, she smiles. “The same way you live one. A second at a time.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“That time always ends a second before you’re ready.

That life is the minutes you want minus one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“All she knows is that she is tired, and he is the place she wants to rest. And that, somehow, she was happy. But it is not love.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I remember you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“To find a way, or make your own.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“And yet, you are unmarried?”
“No,” she says, “I confess, I do not want a master, and I’ve yet to find an equal.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“She searches his face. “Do I know you?” He bows his head over hers. “You are the only one who does.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“How strange, the winding way a dream comes true.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“attraction can look an awful lot like recognition in the wrong light.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I love you,' he says, and Addie wonders if this is love, this gentle thing.
If it is meant to be this soft, this kind.
The difference between heat, and warmth.
Passion, and contentment.
'I love you, too,' she says.
She wants it to be true.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue