Quotes from Mary E. Pearson

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

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

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

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

We've had a terrible start—it doesn't mean we can't have a better ending.

I do want tomorrows with you, Jase. I want a lifetime of tomorrows.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.

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.

Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own.

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.

Love didn't end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn't command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.

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

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.

But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time... even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way.

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.

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.

There are no rules when it comes to survival.

The ghosts, they never go away. They call to you in unexpected moments, their hands lacing with yours and pulling you down paths that lead nowhere.