Arely Suarez > Arely's Quotes

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“...it is sad, of course, to forget.
But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten.
To remember when no one else does.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“What she needs are stories.
Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“A dreamer,” scorns her mother.

“A dreamer,” mourns her father.

“A dreamer,” warns Estele.

Still, it does not seem such a bad word.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“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

“Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I can touch you less gently, but I won't love you less kindly.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“I'm always holding on by a thread! I thought the important thing was that I'm holding on!”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“Again, that sense of untetheredness, of unreality, of not being sure what to do or how to move. Books. The thought was a beacon, something to cling to. I brought books.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“People created stories to fill the gaps they didn’t understand, and religion grew up around it like rot on a fallen tree.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“I mourn the idea of her, maybe. The gap between what a mother is supposed to be and what she was.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“She went to grab her scarlet cloak before remembering it was still in Valleyda. One shaky sigh, that she’d left it there, but a marriage was more than a cloak. As for the other reasons she’d kept it—the claiming of who she was, what she was—she didn’t need a cloak for that anymore, either. She knew it in her bones, she wore it in her eyes instead of on her shoulders.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Grief was like gravel in her slipper, and she felt it more when she was standing still.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Red spent the time mostly in her room, surrounded by her books, letting the familiar passages be an escape. She was good at escaping.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“A forest in your bones, a graveyard beneath your feet. There are no heroes here.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“The warm familiarity of the bookshelves kept her together, knit her back into herself as she wandered between them.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Sometimes you don't mourn people so much as you mourn who they could've been.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“People with power resent losing it, and too much power for too long a time can make a villain of anyone.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Someone pays for the mistakes we make... Either we do, or we leave it to those who come after us.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“The figure at the table didn’t seem to notice. His head bent over an open book, hand moving as a pen scratched over paper. The lines of his shoulders spoke of strength, but that of only a man rather than a monster; the fingers holding the pen were long and elegant, not clawed. Still, there was something otherworldly in the shape of him, something that hinted at humanity but didn’t quite arrive there.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“I’ll thank you to keep your hands off my wife.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“Red, I’d let the world burn before I hurt you.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“He may let the world burn, but he’d let himself burn with it.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“His scars were rough under her fingers before he pulled away, shooting her a dark, unfathomable look.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“The part of her that would smile as she grabbed a bladed legacy and felt it make her bleed.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“This ends in roots and bones. For all of you. It always ends in roots and bones.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf

“You had to be a whole person to be worth mourning. She’d never been that to her mother. Never been anything more than a relic.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf