Danielle Sullivan > Danielle's Quotes

“You-' Before I can process the tenderness of his voice, his hand cups my face just under the chin. "-are a wildflower, vibrant and unpredictable; wherever you choose to settle, roots will follow.”
― Paige Lavoie, I'm in Love with Mothman

“I sit on the edge of the bed, feeling the loneliness swell, not knowing whether it's pressing against me from the outside or growing from within. either way, it's inescapable, my oldest companion.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“All my life, I’ve let other voices creep in, and they’ve drowned out my own.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“She didn’t know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want to rip and roar and rend the world into pieces. She felt it all—too keenly, too sharply. Hated and cared and loved and dreaded, more than other people, she sometimes thought.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Inside, inside I had become like that distant sea, relentlessly churning, tossed about by squalls that tore away any sense of where the surface might be.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“A library was a home to those who dreamt of better places.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Silver in the Bone

“Showing you care about something or someone makes you vulnerable, because it gives the world another way to hurt you. But there comes a time when you have to decide if feeling empty is really any better than the risk of being broken.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Silver in the Bone

“No matter what they say, or how much they lie to themselves, people don't want the truth.

They want the story, or that secret wish, already living inside them. Not because they're in denial, or even delusional, but when it's too hard to believe yourself, there's comfort in hearing someone else promise things will get better. That your pain wasn't for nothing. That the potential in you will bloom. That your heart will heal.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Mirror of Beasts

“Every seedling needs a little time to grow”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Mirror of Beasts

“Nash used to say that living your life was like shuffling a deck of cards. One day you might draw a good hand, the next, a bad beat. But buying into that meant surrendering what control we did have.

Life wasn't drawing cards at random, it was choosing to pick up the deck, it was choosing how to shuffle, it was choosing the rules of play. It was the thousand of choices we made every single day, and the path those choices created for us.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Mirror of Beasts

“You have to stay alive to keep hating me, Lark," he reminded me close to my ear.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Mirror of Beasts

“I’ve lived through some injustices in the last couple of centuries. Seen some fucking travesties. But one of the biggest, Oraya, is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I didn't like feeling things. Emotions were ever-shifting and devoid of logic, and they gave me no way to sink my blade into them.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Why is is always me? Why is it never your name they're screaming through the sun-cursed door?'

She smiled sweetly. 'Because I'm nice and pretty.'

'I'm nice and pretty,' he grumbled.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“And I could handle selfish motivations - I expected them - but not when I didn't know what they were.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“People don't really talk about how the days that make history, the days that change the course of entire civilizations, start in such mundane ways.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King