Clare Snow > Clare's Quotes

“I had a dream
I put my hands
inside my chest
and held my heart
to try to keep it still”
― Mariko Tamaki, Skim

“It's night in the Free People's World Tree Library. All the librarians are asleep, ... between the pages of their enchanted novels.”
― Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners

“The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“I was born with my voice in my hands.”
― Kathryn Lomer, Talk Under Water

“Of course, if I were dead, they could just bury me, and move on. Broken is harder to deal with.”
― E.K. Johnston, Exit, Pursued by a Bear

“That's what I've been for years. An unsister. An undaughter. An unperson. A girl with a hole for a life. How appropriate to have my tongue cut out, when silence has been my refuge and my cage.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“No, I won’t help you. No, I won’t hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want and I just say no.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I always forget fear is a conquerable thing but I learn it over and over again and that, I guess, is better than never learning it.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“But I wasn't listening. I wasn't stopping. Because we were already running away again, me and my imagination.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“How does it feel, whispered Faith, to come back to your memories and find yourself missing and a dead person in your place?”
― Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree

“What’s that sound? Oh, nothing. Just my heart exploding into a million pieces.”
― Shivaun Plozza, Frankie

“I was written into that map as a landmark. Before I'd even known it, I'd been a part of this place, and it was increasingly hard to pretend it wasn't a part of me. Something of it lived under my skin, indelible as a tattoo. It was the home that might have been and for the first time I felt the loss of it.”
― Heidi Heilig, The Girl from Everywhere

“Who are you to say that being a lady, in itself, is not its own kind of war.”
― Meagan Spooner, Sherwood

“You're becoming. You're in the process of becoming. You just don't know what yet.
That felt right. It felt okay to stop there, for now, as we walked through the future.”
― David Levithan, You Know Me Well

“The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“the past never really goes away. It sinks into the walls and whispers at you when you pass.”
― Will Kostakis, The Sidekicks

“Fascinating things can be learned about the past, no?”
― Elizabeth Bryer, From Here On, Monsters

“And no matter what happened when I went inside, I would always have that one perfect moment standing on the threshold when anything was possible.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“the desire to breathe that was the problem.”
― Claire Zorn, One Would Think the Deep

“Unfortunately, the only women who get to wander around London after dark are whores.”
― Kathleen A. Flynn, The Jane Austen Project

“I realise how much time I used to spend with my head in a book, filling the emptiness of my world and letting the pages distract from the darkness in the shadows behind me.”
― C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

“He stood there at the edge of the orchard looking like he would never be whole again.”
― Tracy Chevalier, At the Edge of the Orchard

“I was afraid if I left I'd get lost in these woods. I was afraid I would never find my way back.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“She was gone but it seemed she was still always there, right at the center.”
― Georgia Blain, Darkwater

“Each evening she held his head in her hands and ran her aching fingers thru the thick ruff of fur around his neck. He burrowed against her, sighing devotion.”
― Meg Rosoff, The Bride's Farewell

“A pang of love for my country suddenly strikes through me. That lazy way the trees and bushes dot the land. The effortless beauty of the mountains and the secrets hidden within them.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Where the Streets Had a Name

“And in the space he left behind, in the loss of him, she felt an actual physical pain in her belly. She'd lost a friend and she didn't have many of those.”
― Jenny Downham, Unbecoming

“There was just something about dead that was different from alive.”
― Peternelle van Arsdale, The Beast Is an Animal

“our scars are invisible and they won't ever heal”
― Nova Weetman, Everything is Changed

“Hope is the most dangerous thing you can give someone.”
― Kara Thomas, Little Monsters