34 quotes
There are moments that change everything, and once things have been changed, they do not change back.
Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017)
There are many good things in the world, and each of them happens for the first time only once, and never again.
In an Absent Dream (2019)
This wasn’t the first time Cora had met people who thought their ideas about how the world should be were the only right ones.
Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)
Time is the alchemy that turns compassion into love.
Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017)
If your friends would stop wanting you around because you’re not exactly like them, they’re not very good friends.
Across the Green Grass Fields (2021)
We can’t make things that happened not have happened by wishing that they hadn’t.
Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)
“Heroism is addictive. Maybe that’s why it sounds so much like ‘heroin.’”
Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)
I’d banter, but I haven’t the time, and you haven’t the wit to keep up.
Come Tumbling Down (2020)
Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favorite thing, of all things.
Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017)
Hope is a vicious beast. It sinks in its claws and it doesn’t let go.
Come Tumbling Down (2020)
You look like the kind of girl who might know stuff about lichen.
Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)
New things are the best kind of magic there is.
Come Tumbling Down (2020)
“Sometimes ‘fair’ is bigger than just you,” said the Archivist.…“Sometimes ‘fair’ has to think about what’s best for everyone.”
In an Absent Dream (2019)
Cora was very good at ignoring people who told her to do foolish things.
Beneath the Sugar Sky (2018)
That’s the trouble with gods. They don’t care much how poorly they treat their toys.
Come Tumbling Down (2020)
If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.
In an Absent Dream (2019)
Destiny wasn’t real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in a certain way, and refuse to let it change.
Across the Green Grass Fields (2021)
Parents lied to children when they thought it was necessary, or when they thought that it would somehow make things better. It only made sense that children should lie to parents in the same way.
In an Absent Dream (2019)
Her accusations had been met with reality, and they didn’t have anyplace else to go.
Every Heart a Doorway (2016)
“If they’re being locked, they’re being locked. We don’t have a key.”
“Sometimes, you don’t need a key,” said Sumi. Her smile verged on feral. “Sometimes a crowbar is good enough.”
Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)