Madeline Glanton > Madeline's Quotes

“You've come into my life like a beam of very annoying sunshine. You talk so much that I miss it when you're not. You try to fix things I didn't even realise were broken. You have a dreadful sense of humour to which I've somehow become habituated. You care about people so effortlessly it makes me able to put up with them. And then you kissed me and now I..." He lets his head slip further down into his hands. "...I don't know how I'm supposed to go the rest of my life without being kissed by you again.”
― Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened

“I step forward like a deer stepping in front of another deer in the mistaken belief it's immune to being hit by cars.”
― Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened

“Because you can’t hurt someone unless they care.”
― Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened

“He’s become my dickhead boss whose baggage I’ve seen, whose family I know, whose laugh I’ve heard. And I’m not sure I want to go my whole life without kissing him again either.”
― Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened

“Not every story has a happy ending,” she offered. “But most do, if you’re brave enough to keep reading to the end.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Mysteries of Thorn Manor

“She would battle villains, demons, monsters to keep him safe. If she could, she would even battle his memories.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Mysteries of Thorn Manor

“This was one of the things she loved best about books... she could briefly clasp hands with them across eternity, a chance meeting of souls made possible by their shared love of a story.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Mysteries of Thorn Manor

“I don’t want a suitor,” she replied, emotion coursing through her. “I just want you, Nathaniel, not life-endangering acts of heroism, or—or priceless treasures, or even starlight in a jar. I haven’t changed my mind. I still love you. I think it’s possible I might love you even more than I did three months ago.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Mysteries of Thorn Manor

“She liked nothing better than being surrounded by books.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Mysteries of Thorn Manor

“It was always wise to be polite to books, whether or not they could hear you.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Knowledge always has the potential to be dangerous. It is a more powerful weapon than any sword or spell.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like, and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Books, too, had hearts, though they were not the same as people's, and a book's heart could be broken: she had seen it happen before. Grimoires that refused to open, their voices gone silent, or whose ink faded and bled across the pages like tears.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“God, Elisabeth, I've been doomed since the moment I watched you smack a fiend off my carriage with a crowbar. How could you not tell? Silas has been rolling his eyes at me for weeks.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Ink and parchment flowed through her veins. The magic of the Great Libraries lived in her very bones. They were a part of her, and she a part of them.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“...there is always more than one way to see the world. Those who claim otherwise would have you dwell forever in the dark.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“You unmanageable, contrary creature. You have made me believe in something at last. It feels as wretched as I imagined.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“She wasn’t a wielder of chains; she was a breaker of them. She was the library’s will made flesh.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“It's an honor to fight by your side, Elisabeth, for however long it lasts. You've reminded me to live. That's worth having something to lose.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“What is the point of life if you don't believe in anything?”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Was that what it meant to lose someone? The pain never went away. It just got... covered up.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“But you know the truth of magic. The greatest power springs only from suffering.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“You can’t live life worrying about what people will think. You’ll wake up one day, look at a calendar, and count the days you could have spent being happy.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“I could tell by the way you looked at her, she was something real special.” “How did I look at her?” He was afraid to find out. “Ah, son. Like a summer day showing up after a hundred years of winter.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Doesn’t feel like enough to say I love you at this point.”
“Our love is always enough. It’s always more than enough.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Do you ever get so happy, you can barely stand it?”
“Yes.”
“With you? All the time.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“I've never even had you, and your body haunts mine.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“I didn’t know what right felt like until you,” he choked out. “I’m holding on to the good you give me. I’m holding on to you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“If you’re laughing with them, they can’t laugh at you, right?”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker