Hayley

“Belief is half of all healing.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“I'm not sure I'll ever know the meaning of life or what comes for us after death, but I know it's more than the hysteria people make it out to be. It's about freeing your soul when no one else can; turning thirty and still feeling like you're seventeen. It's about taking chances on a whim, embracing the rain during the storm, and smiling so damn much that you start to cry. It's never regretting, never forgetting, and always being.

It's kissing underwater and touching in the dark. Loving even when you think it's emotionally impossible and surviving someway and somehow.

It's about living life with a full heart and an overflowing glass.

I live life on the edge. I dream, I care, and I belong.

I know there's a here and now.

I know that I want it.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch? How can a prince be a murderer and a saviour? How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?

"I don't know," Connor shrugged, exhausted. "Your stories never made any sense to me."

The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls