Andrew Cassar > Andrew's Quotes

“There’s such a thing as too much sweetness, Quincy, he told me. All the best bakers know this. There needs to be a counterpoint. Something dark. Or bitter. Or sour. Unsweetened chocolate. Cardamom and cinnamon. Lemon and lime. They cut through all the sugar, taming it just enough so that when you do taste the sweetness, you appreciate it all the more.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“I'm a fucking final girl”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“That’s not your choice. It’s already been decided for you. You can’t change what’s happened. The only thing you can control is how you deal with it.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Not everything about where you're headed...has to be about where you've been.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her

“Let go or be dragged.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her

“And as much as Justin valued the clarity of my black and white, I’d been intoxicated by his world of grays.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her

“But she did not look the future in the face. She wanted to feel nothing, to think nothing; simply to believe that it was all silly invention on her part. Yet she could not. Not quite.”
― Nella Larsen, Passing

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“When all else fails, I cook. Some”
― Patricia Cornwell, Postmortem

“Remember that person you wanted to be? There's still time.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Flight Attendant

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. —Margaret Atwood”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Flight Attendant

“Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Where They Found Her

“Finally, I cry for all the versions of myself that have existed through the years. Confused five-year-old. Sullen child of divorce. Furious nine-year-old. Inquisitive me. Defiant me. Dutiful me. So many incarnations, each one seeking answers, leading me to right here, to right now, to a potential truth I have no idea how to handle.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“He once told me our relationship was like a rose. Beautiful, yes, but it came with thorns. I liked it to the weather. It was always changing. Icy seasons. Warm spells. Months when we'd talk almost every day and long sections of radio silence.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“Sometimes, Mags, a couple can go through something so terrible that not even love can fix it.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“Sometimes the only way out is through.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“Omnes vulnerant; ultima necat. I remember the phrase from high school Latin class, although not because I excelled at the language. In fact, I was terrible at it. I remember only because it sent a chill through me when I first learned what it meant. All hours wound; the last one kills.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“My future is quite literally a blank canvas, waiting for me to fill it.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“What none of them understand is that the point of the game isn’t to fool others with a lie. The goal is to trick them by telling the truth.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“That’s the thing about mistakes. Not all of them can be fixed.”
― Megan Goldin, The Night Swim

“Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“For just a second, I saw Persephone, pomegranate in hand. Dooming herself to the underworld. Is that who I was? Hades himself, coveting springtime, stealing it, condemning it to endless night.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before.”
― J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before

“Baking is a science, as rigorous as chemistry or physics. There are rules that must be followed. Too much of one thing and not enough of another can lead to ruin. I find comfort in this. Outside, the world is an unruly place where men prowl with sharpened knives. In baking, there is only order.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Ataraxia, she had named that magic sword. Inner Peace.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“Keep reaching out your hand.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“For every Nesta out there- climb the mountain.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames