Melissa Albert Quotes

“When in doubt, the answer is always Death. With a capital D.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“Are all these books doors?'
'A book is always a door.”
― Melissa Albert, The Night Country

“Every time we left a place, I felt the things that happened there being wiped clean, till all that was left was Ella, our fights and our talks and our winding roads. I wrote down dates and places in the corners of my books, and lost them along the way.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“We were checked in by a man who looked exactly how the guy checking you in at a cheap motel in the middle of the night is supposed to.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“Maybe I could've talked myself into believing what I wanted so badly to believe.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“She felt, she said, "like a ghost moving through a museum of my old life.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“Today I lost myself in the comforting rhythms of the cafe.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“She'll stare at you as you try to pull your thoughts together, to say something that'll reach her, but she'll never reach back.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“I didn't understand why her eyes were so bright, why she was breathing so hard. "This book isn't for children," she said shrilly.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“But bad luck was sneakier than that. You couldn't outcome it, you could only keep going when it had you in its sights.”
― Melissa Albert