Lexa Hillyer > Lexa's Quotes

“I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“You know, I used to love looking at the stars at night. I used to think they were put there to guide us. Now I know they are just watching and winking, mute observers, bemused by our failures and our loss.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“Why should I learn of another world, a vaster world, if it means regretting my whole life until now? Who wants to be made to loathe what they have? Small as it is, my life is mine.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“It's crazy to think that they've been so close to a way out all this time, but have never known it.
Then again, she realizes, perhaps everyone has the key to her own prison. Maybe freedom is just a matter of knowing the right story, of being brave enough to say the right words in the right order at the right time.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“We sculpt truth out of the world's formlessness, and thus it is often precisely what we already believe that comes to pass.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Winter Glass

“The not-yet-ness tastes sweeter than the thing you're waiting for.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“Sommeil gives her that exact feeling: those brief hours when you are holding an unread story in your hands and don't yet know how it will end. You would be content if the biscuits never rose and were never consumed, the irises in the garden never bloomed and faded, the rain hovered but never fell. The not-yet-ness tastes sweeter than the thing you're waiting for.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“She's been so blind. To think she was a prisoner of circumstances, that it was her lack of voice, a jealous faerie bargain, that held her back all these years. Really, it has always been her own obedience - her desire to please, to do everything right, to follow instead of lead - that has stopped her from truly living.”
― Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire