01UndatedThe dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
02UndatedPoetry?"..."No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
03UndatedI see Jenna, smiling, chattering. And failing. When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
05UndatedOf course you did." I took a step closer. "You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're skills helped saved Rafe's and my lives, for which I'll always be indebted to you. But there are other kinds of strength too. Quiet, gentle ones that are just as valuable, even if you don't entirely understand them.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
06UndatedMaybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
07UndatedChance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
08UndatedOnce upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods…But even the great can tremble with fear.Even the great can fallMary E. Pearson / quote ↗
09UndatedMy memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They click, click, click into my brain, like links being snapped together. And then they are done. A small chain of memories that fill in one tiny part of my life. They come out of nowhere, and most are not important.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
10UndatedPercentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
11UndatedI looked at her, unsure how to answer. Even after everything Mikael had done, every day I had to let go again. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. It was a conscious effort.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
12UndatedTheir voices meld into a cloudy rumble of their own, and I ponder Mira's and Aidan's secrets and imagine the injustice that threads through other lives, injustice that has no face because it is hidden away in a dark, shameful place, hidden for years in hopes of making it untrue.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
14UndatedChoiceI needed it like I needed air.Bit no one could hear me. No one could listen. No words. No sound.No voice.I couldn't even dream myself away.Choices were made.None of them mine.At first I wondered if it was hell.And then I knew it was.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
15UndatedIt made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
17UndatedWe already had three steps behind us."Hold on, Lia," I whispered. Hold on for me.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
18UndatedAncients pulled metals more precious than gold from the center of the earth - They spun into giant lacy wings that flew them to the stars and back "Is that what you'd do with wings?"She shook her head "No, I'd fly to the stars, but I'd never come backMary E. Pearson / quote ↗
21UndatedA sacrifice ever remembered.Never forgotten.Another day we live.A sacrifice for you. Only for you. And so shall it be,For evermore.PaviammaMary E. Pearson / quote ↗
22UndatedAs we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
23UndatedLove … 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.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
24UndatedWhat 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.Mary E. Pearson / quote ↗
