She was certain Hemi had been deeply and hopelessly in love and that Belle had returned his love. How had they ended up hurting one another so deeply?
“Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“She’d absorbed the verdict of so many other people that it now spoke to her in her own voice?”
― Murder on Cold Street
― Murder on Cold Street
“Don’t forget, sir, that I am a queen upon this board, and I do not play to lose.”
― Murder on Cold Street
― Murder on Cold Street
“You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want. Any aspect of ourselves that we do not like can be altered if we make an effort.” That”
― Daughter of the Pirate King
― Daughter of the Pirate King
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