Casey > Casey's Quotes

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“People never change!" Marianne retorted. "We forget ourselves, and when we rediscover ourselves, we merely imagine that we have changed. That's not true, though. You can't change dreams; you can only kill them-and some of us are very good murderers.”
― Nina George, The Little French Bistro

“The little fever of envy, once caught, is the ruin of all happiness.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing