Cursed: The Complete Series, #1-3 (Cursed, #1-3)

by Claire Farrell

I had been mad at him, but he was family. That was more important than anything else.

The problem with Joey was he usually came with a big dose of sensible.

Perdy, what’s the point in living if you don’t have dreams? Why on earth would you do anything other than the one thing you’ve wanted your entire life?”

If you give up on the one thing that’ll make you happy, then what chance do I have?”

My mind had gone one-track, and that wasn’t conducive to creativity. My plans had to change.

“But you will run away whenever you get the chance. You might wait for something legitimate, like college, but that’s what you’ll end up having to do if he keeps acting this way.”

All Opa wanted was Vin. All Jeremy wanted was power. All Willow wanted was to get back to Ryan. And all I wanted was to forget.

“Enough. I’m getting really sick of you moping around. You wanted to come with us. Don’t forget that. You jumped at the chance. Yeah, it gets tough, but you can’t keep running away from your problems.”

Don’t mistake it for something noble. You tried to avoid every part of what you are, and you’re still doing it, one way or another. Either snap out of it or decide what it is you really want to do because nobody deserves to put up with you like this.”

“I mind. You don’t understand what it’s like to depend on another person so heavily. It’s hard to free yourself, hard to see a time when you can go it alone. I can’t do this again. I hope you never know what that’s like.”

sometimes what we love isn’t necessarily the best thing for us.”

Although he held the happy expression, there was a haunted look in his eyes, a hollow space that made it clear he was putting on a mask.

“Then you can’t blame yourself either. You’re so much like your father—always seeking perfection. It doesn’t exist. It never will. You’ll drive yourself mad looking for something that isn’t there. You have to make the best of what you have.”

“It means you have to stand up and be the person you’re supposed to be, instead of the person you think you should be. It means that you can’t keep pining after what the curse gave you, or what it took away, when you could be making the most of what’s there now.”

“Dad, you’re scaring me. It’s bad enough to find out my cousin regularly flirts with the octogenarian librarian without you donning a bass guitar.”

“I swear to God,” Amelia snapped, coming out of nowhere. “If you listen to what she just said and didn’t hear what she was really saying, I will bite you.”