Elizabeth Purcell > Elizabeth's Quotes

“For nothing is safe, and nothing is free. Debt follows all men, no matter their plea. When the Shepherd returns, a new day shall ring. Death to the Rowans.” His gray eyes focused, homing in on Elm. “Long live the King.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“It's strange, how little love you can survive on until you experience the warmth of people who choose you despite everything.”
― Trang Thanh Tran, They Bloom at Night

“What’s an ocean to a Vietnamese mother with a dream.”
― Trang Thanh Tran, They Bloom at Night

“I am not a boy or a girl. Do you know the shape of water? Do you know clouds, and mountains, or every bud of wisteria at the height of spring? Your eyes follow me but you've never really seen me.”
― Trang Thanh Tran, They Bloom at Night

“If this is the end of the world, I don’t want to be careful with my heart, my body.” I say, sure Saffy would be proud. “This is my choice. It’s me.”
― Trang Thanh Tran, They Bloom at Night

“Now I wonder if I’ve been useful to her only as something she can pour everything she despises about herself into, something that she could raise to hate itself so that she’d have company in her feelings.”
― Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating