CM > CM's Quotes

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“And why travel to a place I've never been when I can find myself with you?”
― Amanda Foody, Daughter of the Burning City

“We are all children of blood and bone.
All instruments of vengeance and virtue.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Once upon a time, we were burned to the ground. But we did not die. Instead we kept burning, kept moving, kept growing. The smoke surrounds us, even if we no longer burn.”
― Amanda Foody, Daughter of the Burning City

“They say pressure can turn even a grain of sand into a pearl under the right circumstances.”
― Amanda Foody, Daughter of the Burning City

“There's magic in a kiss.”
― Amanda Foody, Daughter of the Burning City

“You yell at me me for killing cockroaches for my performances, and yet you sleep next to a giant chest full of dead bug carcasses that you keep for you own viewing enjoyment.”
― Amanda Foody, Daughter of the Burning City

“You're lying," I say, kneeling beside him. "You don't think it's interesting."

"I think you're interesting.”
― Amanda Foody, Daughter of the Burning City

“Freak may be the only word to describe a misfit in an entire city's worth of misfits.”
― Amanda Foody, Daughter of the Burning City

“He smiles a wide, boyish smile that makes my heart melt. But it disappears, replaced by hesitation. "I know I'm not impulsive or spontaneous, but I like what we are. I've never had this. And I want you to like what we are, too."

I kiss his cheek. "I promise I like...what we are. As long as you do.”
― Amanda Foody, Daughter of the Burning City

“If I want to try to be with you, it's because I choose you.”
― Amanda Foody, Daughter of the Burning City

“Courage does not always roar. Valor does not always shine.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“You crushed us to build your monarchy on the backs of our blood and bone. Your mistake wasn't keeping us alive. it was thinking we'd never fight back”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Reality told us we would fail. But again and again, we fought. We perserved . We rose.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“You know how to win,” she says. “Just make sure you know when to fight.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“When your opponent has no honor, you must fight in different ways, smarter ways.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“As it fades, I see the truth - in plain sight, yet hidden all along. We are all children of blood and bone. All instruments of vengeance and virtue. This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother's arms. It binds me in its love as death swallows me in its grasp.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“They don't hate you, my child. They hate what you were meant to become.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“As long as we don't have magic, they will never treat us with respect. They need to know we can hit them back. If they burn our homes, we burn theirs, too.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Good hearts don't leave scars like that.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“I’m the very monster I hunt.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Love is too strong, too intense, for what I feel. For what I am allowed to feel.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“You have your duty and your heart. To chose one means the other must suffer.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“The truth cuts like the sharpest knife I've ever known.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Fool yourself all you want, little prince, but don’t feign innocence with me. I won’t let your father get away with what he’s done. I won’t let your ignorance silence my pain.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone