Mary E. Pearson: Trending quotes

“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 Adoration of Jenna Fox

“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

“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 Kiss of Deception

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

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“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’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 Adoration of Jenna Fox

“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 Heart of Betrayal

“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 Adoration of Jenna Fox

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

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

“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

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

Source: The Heart of Betrayal