The Maidens Quotes

“Although she didn't know it at the time, she was already so deeply in love, there was no way out again. On some level, they became each other--they joined, like mercury.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“I felt safe, suddenly. I felt calm, and at peace--as if a raging fever had abated, a delirium burned itself out. I felt the other part of me, the good part, rising with the dawn...”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“...she was still in love and didn't know what to do with all this love of hers. There was so much of it, and it was so messy: leaking, spilling, tumbling out of her, like stuffing falling out of an old rag dol that was coming apart at the seams. If only she could box up her love, as she was attempting to do with his possessions.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens