Mary E. Pearson Quotes

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

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“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.”

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

“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.”

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.”

Source: The Beauty of Darkness

Mary E. Pearson Quotes about love

“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.”

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

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

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

“Because I Stupidly Loved Her”

Source: The Kiss of Deception

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

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

“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.”

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods…
But even the great can tremble with fear.
Even the great can fall”

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

Mary E. Pearson Quotes about time

“… and time becomes a forgotten detail.”

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“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.”

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“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?”

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.”

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson: Trending quotes

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

Source: The Kiss of Deception

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

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness.”
“Some things last.”
I faced him. “Really? And just what would that be?”
“The things that matter.”

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson Quotes

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

Source: The Kiss of Deception

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

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

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

Source: The Fox Inheritance

“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.”

Source: The Miles Between

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

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

“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.”

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“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.”

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“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.”

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

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

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“There are no rules in survival.”

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

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

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

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

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“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.”

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“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.”

Source: The Kiss of Deception

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

Source: The Kiss of Deception

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

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

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

Source: The Beauty of Darkness

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

Source: The Kiss of Deception

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

Source: The Kiss of Deception

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

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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

Source: The Kiss of Deception

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

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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

Source: The Beauty of Darkness

“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?”

Source: The Kiss of Deception

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

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“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.”

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“A perfect night… a perfect forever”

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“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.”

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“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.”

Source: The Beauty of Darkness

“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.”

Source: The Fox Inheritance

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

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“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)”

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“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.”

Source: The Beauty of Darkness