Olivia Stay Quotes

“...the ocean, the perpetual shapeshifter: one day a disc of hammered gold, the next wild and rearing, like a thousand white horses. I noticed how the ocean had moods, just like a person.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

“I used to tell myself that I regretted the choices I'd made in my life. But every choice, including the wrong ones, made me who I was... -both the good and bad experiences strengthened you, shaped you. We are not just made of blood and bone- we are made of stories. Some of us have our stories told for us, other write their own- you wrote yours.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

“I went outside, taking in the sight of the grey ocean swaying beyond the cliffs, a mackerel sky troubled by seabirds swooping and screaming beneath the clap of the waves.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

“When I looked out at the beach, I imagined each grain of sand like a measure of time that I'd been allotted. I could either let them run through my hands or I could stop and pay attention.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

“Don't tell me you believe in ghosts, Finn.'

'Ghosts, not exactly. Traces, yeah. Sort of.'

'Traces?'

'Here's my theory. Everything is energy. We all leave something behind. Now, there's folk who'll swear on their granny's last breath that they've seen a ghost. And I reckon some of them have. Or rather, they've seen traces of a past energy.'
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Finn was talking with his hands now, trying to make some sense. 'We think that time moves forward, in a linear fashion. Yeah? But sometimes you get deja vu, or there's some mad coincidence that you can't explain. I think time doesn't move in a linear fashion, but in a spiral, and sometimes there's echoes from the past. And a ghost is just an echo of someone.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches