Quotes from Mary E. Pearson

Love's always a messy affair better left to young hearts. There are no ground rules to follow.

This was more than just making the best of it, this was something taking root, a seed being planted. But it was a seed that couldn't be planted.

I don't care about how you do it. Fall on him. That should do it. Do I have your word?

But now here I was, out in the middle of nowhere, unable to help anyone, not even myself. I was crushed to the desert floor, my face ground into the sand. Laughed at. Ridiculed. Betrayed by someone I had trusted. More than trusted. I had cared about him.

Desperate pieces of string that hold us up but at the same time keep us from being anything other than what we have always been.

I know the arranged marriage planted seeds of doubt for you, but someone will come along, someone worthy of you. And you'll know it the minute you meet him." (pg 142)

A long, scandalous kiss. I felt the colour rush through my cheeks. If this was the custom, I liked it.

there are no spares in case one is lost. Souls are only given once.

Prepare your hearts, For we must not only be ready for the enemy without, but also the enemy within. —Song of Jezelia

A real kiss," he said. "That's what I needed, just one more time.

Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born. (pg 3)

Every exchange of words between Jase and me seemed like a dance, a step forward, a step back, circling, both of us leading, anticipating, wondering what the next move would be.

Am I never to meet the backbone of Venda, or will I only be pointed at with your long, bony finger?" He looked down briefly at his gloved hands, and a sliver of satisfaction warmed me.

Maybe I finally understood that history wasn't just written on walls and in books but made in a thousand daily decisions, and some of them went wrong, some went right, and some decisions just had to be made because time was running out. Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.

Nezahazuj jeden druh síly pro jiný.

We can't always wait for the perfect timing.

The world was so much safer when you only had yourself to lose.

Ever since that first day I met you, I've gone to sleep ever single night thinking about you.

She would never believe another word I said. Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.

I want to pull you close and never let you go.

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.

gods and angels destroyed the world when men aspired to be gods and mercy had fled their hearts.

Tomar a vida de outra pessoas, ela havia sussurrado, até mesmo sendo alguém culpado, nunca deve ser fácil. Se fosse, seríamos um mais do que animais

She is afraid I will get lost. Lost adj. 1. No longer known. 2. Unable to find the way. 3. Ruined or destroyed. I'm afraid I already am.