Mary E. Pearson Quotes

“I would never betray Venda.”
“Sometimes we’re all pushed to do things we thought we could never do.”

“Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says.
I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.”

“Three more days. That’s what Sven always told me. When you think you’re at the end of your rope, give it three more days. And then another three. Sometimes you’ll find the rope is longer than you thought.”

“If I could only reach out and touch the stars, I would know everything. I would understand.”

“Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.”

“I’m not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We’ve had a terrible start—it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”

“Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky”

“Because I Stupidly Loved Her”

“If one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything. Some things can't be forgiven.”

“But you’re everything I want. Remember that. I love you, Lia. Not a title. And not because a piece of paper says I should. Because I do.”

“… and time becomes a forgotten detail.”

“My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.”

“Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?”

“I will find you.
In the farthest corner, I will find you.”

“Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.”

“We had a terrible start… doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”

“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”

“The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.”

“It was worth it, Lia,” He said. “Every mile, every day. I’d do it all again. I’d chase you across three continents if that’s what it took to be with you.”

“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”

“Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.”

“And I began walking. A thousand miles, or two, I would carry her all the way to Dalbreck if I had to. No one would pry her from my arms again.”

“We all have our different skills. You’re patient to a fault, which sometimes doesn’t work to your advantage. I, on the other hand, have the patience of a wet cat. Only on rare occasions does that come in handy.”

“I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)”

“There are no rules in survival.”

“There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.”

“The rules of reason build towers that reach past the treetops. The rules of trust build towers that reach past the stars.”

“I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.”

“Don't be afraid, child,
The stories are always there.”

“I trust you all slept well,” I said, deliberately keeping my tone light. I returned Malich’s glare with a tight-lipped grin.

“Yes, we did,” Kaden answered quickly.

“I’m sorry to hear that.”

“A six-inch blade. I smiled. Did he buy it? It was actually just shy of four—but very nicely weighted—and as Aunt Bernice noted, a little exaggeration was always expected when describing weapons, victories, and body parts.”

“Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.”

“I suppose if we’re going to fall in love all over again, kissing will be part of it.”

“It doesn’t matter how many universes come and go, I will always remember who we were together.”

“Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.”

“Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?”

“I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.”

“Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.”

“There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.”

“Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight.”

“Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza."
"Turn your ear to the wind," she interpreted. "Stand strong.”

“Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?”

“I know you have the patience of a rapidly decomposing turd.”

“Awareness
There is a dark place.
A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words.
I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die.
But I can't.
The darkness and silence go on forever.
It is not a dream.
I don't dream.”

“A perfect night… a perfect forever”

“Sometimes the enemy is just one person who will bring down a kingdom.”

“Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man.”

“What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.”

“Until one comes who is mightier,
The one sprung from misery,
The one who was weak,
The one who was hunted,
The one marked with claw and vine,
The one named in secret,
The one called Jezelia.”

“Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?”

“I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)”

“This world, it breathes you in … it knows you, and then it breathes you out again, shares you.”

“Kiss me," I said. "Before you say anything else, just kiss me and hold me and tell me it was worth it, no matter what happens.”