“Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait. If you didn’t like the weather, you didn’t rush into the storm—you waited until it changed. You found a way to keep from getting wet.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“There were not enough pages in all the books Elm had read, in all the libraries he’d wandered, in all the notebooks he’d scrawled, that could measure—denote or describe—just how beautiful she was.”
― Two Twisted Crowns
― Two Twisted Crowns
“Nan puffed and swatted his hand. “There is always a choice. Are you going to let your father write your story, or will you?”
― Divine Rivals
― Divine Rivals
“Dear Iris, I have to say that an eyeball is the furthest image from my mind. Even the fierce flower that inspired your mother to name you wasn’t the first thing I thought of. Rather: iris: transitive verb: to make iridescent. Let us make our names exactly what we want them to be. —C.”
― Divine Rivals
― Divine Rivals
“And yet I press my fingers to the scars in my skin—soft, tender, warm as the blood beneath—and I hear, “There is a divine … There is someone who has kept you here, breathing, moving, living.”
― Ruthless Vows
― Ruthless Vows
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