Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.
-"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman
"What on earth did you do with your hands when the one thing they wanted to hold was suddenly, gruesomely gone?"
-from Passion (Fallen #3) by Lauren Kate
"Her life didn't have to be out of her hands. She could shape her own destiny. Somehow. She didn't have it all figured out yet, but she could feel a solution drawing nearer. How else would she have found herself here in the first place? How else would she have known now that it was time to move on?"
-from Passion (Fallen #3) by Lauren Kate
"The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present."
-from Rapture (Fallen #4) by Lauren Kate
"You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to be cursed by it. You said ... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse -- that curses were preludes to blessings."
-from Rapture (Fallen #4) by Lauren Kate
"This was the very first time she and Daniel had met on Earth ... Neither recognized the other. Yet they were already, instantly, in love."
-from Rapture (Fallen #4) by Lauren Kate
"'Imagine how lonely it was, in a Hell of my own making, stranded at the altar, the greatest fool of all time, enduring seven thousand years of agony.' 'Stop,' she whispered. 'You have to stop loving me. Because I stopped loving you.'"
-from Rapture (Fallen #4) by Lauren Kate
"'I thought that what I felt for you was right,' Luce said. 'I loved you until it hurt me, until our love was consumed by your pride and rage. The thing you called love made me disappear. So I had to stop loving you ... Your love diminished me. I never meant to hurt you. I only meant to stop you from hurting me.'"
-from Rapture (Fallen #4) by Lauren Kate
"She didn't have to explain herself to Po, and he explained himself to her without her having to ask. She'd never known a person with whom she could communicate so freely -- so unused was she to the phenomenon of friendship."
-from Graceling (Graceling Realm #1) by Kristin Cashore
-from Graceling (Graceling Realm #1) by Kristin Cashore
"Giddon's hope bewildered her. She couldn't fathom his foolishness, to fall in love with her, and she still didn't entirely believe it to be true."
-from Graceling (Graceling Realm #1) by Kristin Cashore
-from Graceling (Graceling Realm #1) by Kristin Cashore
"She hadn't asked for a person whose absence, if she woke in the middle of the night, would distress her -- not because of the protection he would then fail to give, but simply because she wished his company. She hadn't asked for a person whose company she wished."
-from Graceling (Graceling Realm #1) by Kristin Cashore
"'Will you forgive me if I take my strength from yous?' 'You may always have whatever strength I have. But you're the strong one, Fire. Right now I don't feel strong.' 'I think,' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them. I feel your strength.'"
-from Fire (Graceling Realm #2) by Kristin Cashore
"She didn't know what she thought, she needed more time than they did, she couldn't always be rushing ahead the way they were, and it frustrated her to look back and realize that she'd let herself be pushed into something."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"What was it about the dark that made her question things she'd never questioned before in the day?"
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know. I want to know everything."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"'But that's how memory works,' Bitterblue said quietly. 'Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.' And sometimes, they come back incomplete and warped."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"Fine ... I'll go meet your friend the compulsive liar. I'm sure we'll get along smashingly."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"She also wondered if going to see something that was no longer there was a good idea -- and if that mattered, when it came to a person's heart."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
-from Graceling (Graceling Realm #1) by Kristin Cashore
"'Will you forgive me if I take my strength from yous?' 'You may always have whatever strength I have. But you're the strong one, Fire. Right now I don't feel strong.' 'I think,' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them. I feel your strength.'"
-from Fire (Graceling Realm #2) by Kristin Cashore
"She didn't know what she thought, she needed more time than they did, she couldn't always be rushing ahead the way they were, and it frustrated her to look back and realize that she'd let herself be pushed into something."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"What was it about the dark that made her question things she'd never questioned before in the day?"
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know. I want to know everything."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"'But that's how memory works,' Bitterblue said quietly. 'Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.' And sometimes, they come back incomplete and warped."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"Fine ... I'll go meet your friend the compulsive liar. I'm sure we'll get along smashingly."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
"She also wondered if going to see something that was no longer there was a good idea -- and if that mattered, when it came to a person's heart."
-from Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3) by Kristin Cashore
