Peg > Peg's Quotes

“It's remarkable how quickly a person can get used to an impossible situation. How terror and panic can start to feel familiar, even ordinary.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Not all storytellers are grandmothers, but all grandmothers are storytellers.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“You named a kitten Broccoli?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
― Kate Storey, The Memory Library

“I want to rid myself of my cancer,” I recited, like I’d heard others do so many times before at retreats and in meetings.”
― Lucinda Berry, When She Returned

“It's suffocating, being loved by you." ... "You don't leave me an inch of space to breathe.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“Why was it, Whelan wondered, assholes only saw the light after the damage was done?”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Summers at the Saint

“I’m the oldest daughter, I’m not scared of anything.”
― Sarah Adams, Beg, Borrow, or Steal

“I'll be so careful with you, Emily”
― Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet, Beg, Borrow, or Steal

“humanity is more important than caste or even religion. And every human being has rights; treating others badly is a sin.”
― Amita Trasi, The Color of Our Sky

“It made no sense, but guilt doesn’t have to. It simply exists, weighing you down and choking you until you can’t breathe anymore.”
― Simone St. James, The Book of Cold Cases

“One day, when a girl was born in Rosario, the earth would shake with anticipation for her future and not dread.”
― Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

“Lies have long legs.”
― Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

“Did something count as a miracle if it possible only because of a lie?”
― Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia