Martha > Martha's Quotes

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.”
― John Green

“To be written into story. That was how even the lost lived on.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“We do not choose whom we love...We can only choose how well.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“Why choose fear over love? In what world does that make sense?”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“Game or no, she would someday die, as all living beings did. But that wasn't the tragedy. Nor was there tragedy in being a pawn. All souls are, if not of eternal beings, then as pawns of their own bodies. The game, whatever shape it takes, lasts only as long as the body holds out. The tragedy, every time, is choosing something other than love.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“Life is a temporary condition, Henry. And it's uncertain. That's why you have to seize chances when you find them. Pursue what you want. Take risks. Live, love...all of it. Every last one of us is going to die, but if we don't live as we truly want, if we're not with the one we want to be with, we're dead already.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“She'd known it her whole life. It was the one thing she was certain of. That someday, everyone she loved would die. Everything she loved would crumble to ruin. It was the price of life. It was the price of love. It was the only ending for every true story.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“If life didn't end... there would be no need for me to choose love in the face of death is the ultimate act of courage. I am the joy, but you are the meaning. Together, we make humanity more than it otherwise might have been.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“Are you thirsty?” she asked.
“Like a camel,” Henry said.
She led him to a chair by the window. Then she went to the kitchen, wishing she had something better than water to serve. She filled a glass.
“Are you hungry?” Food, she had.
“Like a camel that hasn’t eaten anything in days.”
“Ham or casserole?”
“No self-respecting camel eats casserole. It could contain a relative.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“Someday. Just as it wasn't only something to be afraid of, it also was not something that existed only in the future. She and Henry had their someday moments. To see them all again, to hear them, to feel them without the blunting filter of fear: It was like nothing Flora could have imagined.
To die was not the worst thing that could have happened. The worst thing was that she'd almost missed the wonder of love.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“This same system could condemn injustice, but instead it chooses to condemn something as simple and fundamental as the search for the second half. We are all born wanting this. Why does it matter what shape this second half takes, provided it is the thing both sides seek?”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“We have all the time in the world.' Love found a record. He laid it on the player. The music started again, scratchy from age, but so sweet and beautiful and deep.
Someday.
And there, in the darkness, Love and Death and the ones inside of them danced until the song was done.
And then, when all around them was silent and still, they disappeared.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“The kiss: It felt like light rising through them. It was a memory and it was a promise, an enigma and a wonder. It was music. A conversation. A flight. A true story. And it was theirs.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“She sent Death a thought, one she hoped would be her final gift. The Game means something only because we lose. That is your gift to humans. So thank you.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death

“Someday starts now.”
― Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death