Hailey Edwards > Quotes

“Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.”
― Hailey Edwards

“Make no apologies for surviving.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Save an Undead Life

“How can you tell when someone loves the real you and not the idea of you?” “They see you at your lowest,” he said softly, pitching his voice so Cruz had no hope of overhearing, “and they don’t blink. They don’t offer you a hand up, they offer you a hand to hold while you rise on your own.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Dance an Undead Waltz

“Forgive me, Old One." Vaughn stifled a yawn. "Is there a point to this bedtime story?"

Rhys picked up the fork from Vaughn's plate and drove it into his brother's thigh. "There. I've made four points for him.”
― Hailey Edwards, A Hint of Frost

“Their love wasn’t simple. Practice gave it an effortless appearance, but that was far from the truth. It was a kind word in the morning, a thoughtful meal prepared without request, a kiss before parting ways, a kiss when coming back together. A million tiny kindnesses sprinkled throughout the days, the months, the years.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Live an Undead Lie

“Love isn’t a straight path,” he advised. “You don’t know how twisted it will get until you try walking it.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Dance an Undead Waltz

“The thing about love is, when you’re raised with an excess, the overflow splashes onto those around you.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Claim an Undead Soul

“She snorted. “Talking doesn’t leave my kitchen six inches underwater. Talking doesn’t leave two full-grown demons soaking wet. Unless you were both pretending to be mermaids trying to perfect freshwater communication in my sink, I fail to see how talking had anything to do with whatever you two were up to.”
― Hailey Edwards, Everlong

“All good friendships changed the people within them to a better version of themselves.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Claim an Undead Soul

“We all deserve someone who takes care of us, even when we don’t need it.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Dance an Undead Waltz

“All good partnerships ought to require both people to take turns being the damsel, like a team-building exercise.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Break an Undead Heart

“I love you," she said, stomach growling.
"You love bacon."
"I have a big heart," she protested. "There's room enough for both of you in it.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Live an Undead Lie

“Wounded animals heal best in their dens. You owe no one an apology for doing whatever it takes to survive.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Save an Undead Life

“Maybe that apparent ease was what made their unions burn so bright from the outside looking in. Maybe that kind of love wasn’t simple. Maybe it was a goal you strove toward every single day for the rest of your lives. A peak you never reached, but that was okay as long as you kept climbing.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Break an Undead Heart

“you learned appreciation when people proved your worth by spending time with you instead of money on you.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Claim an Undead Soul

“Depression was an old coat I sometimes wore. It fit too tight in the shoulders and pinched as I moved, but taking it off required herculean effort,”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Claim an Undead Soul

“Being a good person is hard. Doing the right thing is hard. That’s why only masochists keep a clean nose.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Claim an Undead Soul

“Had I not been grinding my teeth so loudly, I might have heard the subtle tick, tick, tick. I definitely heard the boom.”
― Hailey Edwards, Change of Heart

“I do believe that sometimes—whether it’s fate or accidental—we cross paths with someone who shatters us on a fundamental level and remakes us into a better version of ourselves.”
― Hailey Edwards, Head Above Water

“As long as you remember one more chapter isn’t a proper greeting.”
― Hailey Edwards, Black Wings, Gray Skies

“What’s that smell?” I took a few sniffs. “Did you scramble guilt for breakfast again?” “I’m your mother.” She swatted my behind. “I have a right to worry.”
― Hailey Edwards, Heir of the Dog

“Panties I don't mind going without, but I have no bra."
"You're like me." She smoothed her hands over her small breasts. "We have knots on a wooden plank.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Claim an Undead Soul

“Before I could tell him so, he guided my finger into his mouth and swirled his tongue across the hurt. "Better?" I managed a whimper. "Grier?" he caught me around the waist as my knees liquified.
"What's wrong?"
"Her ovaries exploded," Lethe called from the living room”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Live an Undead Lie

“Thierry, you must learn not only when to lift a burden, but when to set it down.” He patted Shaw’s lax face with his paw. “Otherwise, your back will break under the strain, and everyone who depends on you will be left as sheep without their shepherd. Do you understand?”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“You’re not a picture book left on a coffee table for just anyone to flip through at their leisure. Far from it. You’re a grimoire, kept in a private library, wrapped in a girth of chains, and cinched with a padlock. If”
― Hailey Edwards, Black Arts, White Craft

“Change is inevitable, sweetheart, and all any of us can do is hope that the skin we choose to shed is less than the new one we have decided to wear.”
― Hailey Edwards, Proof of Life

“This thing with Graeson wasn’t love or simple lust. It was undefinable, and a thing without definition that technically couldn’t exist without such parameters shouldn’t hurt so much. But it did.”
― Hailey Edwards, Head Above Water

“We all kept secrets. Some out of kindness, some in anger, and others to protect ourselves.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Save an Undead Life

“Real is an abstract concept. Are we ever ourselves, our whole selves, except when we’re alone?”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Break an Undead Heart

“Beauty is a reflection on the genetic soup we got served. It says nothing about your character or personality. Pretty is just that. Pretty. Substance is what matters. Clichéd as it sounds, it really is what’s inside that counts.”
― Hailey Edwards, Bayou Born