Quotes from Mary E. Pearson

The world has changed. It's gotten better. It's gotten worse. After all these years, Jenna's words still echo is my head, 'just as one problem is solved, a new one is created.' The work never ends. If there's one thing you can always count on in this world, it is change. I don't fear it the way I used to. I try to be read for it. One day, maybe, all the changes will be only for the good. I can dare to dream. I can always hope for more.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

Could anyone really travel so far that they might not find their way home again?

You do not have to be the one to do this." "It has to be someone, Rafe! Why not me? Yes, I could turn away and ignore everything in my heart. Leave it to someone else! Maybe hundreds have! But maybe I choose to step forward, instead of stepping back.

The prince has grand dreams." "Is it worth it to have any other kind?

I realized there were assumptions we made about people, and once we did, that was all we could see

Sometimes it's the smallest and most innocent things you have to watch out for

The universe sang your name to me. I simply sang it back.

and I wondered at the way we all change, all the outside forces that press and mold and push us into people and things we hadn't planned to be.

Or maybe I'm a masochist and I like girls who are as annoying as hell! Don't try to analyze me, Jenna. I am what I am.

Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight. It had always been my refuge, my place of escape, whether I was sneaking onto a rooftop lit only by the stars or down a midnight alley to be with my brothers. Darkness was my ally. It made me forget the world I was in and invited me to dream of another.

Mason said, with admiration, that it made me a stone-cold bastard, but this girl had pushed me to a reckless burning edge I didn't even recognize, and her calm reply only pushed me further.

Are we still in Morrighan?" I asked. He half smiled, half grunted. "You don't know your own country's borders? How very royal.

And yet, when we stopped at the last hamlet and I saw him embrace the elders and leave gifts, saw the hope that he left behind, and remembered it was he who had saved Kaden from the savagery of his own kind, I wondered if anything I felt in my gut really mattered.

Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It's calculating and cold.

It was a once upon a time world that used to be.

Possibility became a winged creature that could take me anywhere I asked.

It was in the sorrows, in the fear, in the need, that the knowing gained flight, and I had much of all of these.

And suddenly I feel weak, like every question in my head has collided against each other and won't let me think.

There were no rules to grief, but there were rules to life, and in those first few days, the requirements of the living demanded I keep going.

There is always a way out, Kazi. Blink last. Die tomorrow.

What good would one last good-bye do? Wouldn't it just prolong the pain?

I jumped. Another shadow flitted across the

I started to stand, but Yvet stopped me and leaned forward to kiss my injured cheek, her little lips moist against my skin. "It won't hurt for long, Miz. Be brave." I swallowed, trying to answer without turning into a blathering fool. "I'll try, Yvet. I'll try to be as brave as you."