Cascade > Cascade's Quotes

“You are my whole heart, Scarlet. And this is breaking it.'

My heart cracked open and clear dropped out of me. My mouth opened, and I looked round me and stamped my foot. 'Does this look like a good time to tell me that, you damn stupid boy?' I meant to sound mean but my voice wobbled. 'Now?'

He gave a little smile. 'My foul-mouthed warrior.”
― A.C. Gaughen, Scarlet

“I know what it's like when you can't get no one to listen to you. When what you say don't matter. I half think every girl knows what it's like to be silenced.”
― A.C. Gaughen, Scarlet

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.”
― Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl

“All of the emotions that hit people at times like these, all of them, were coursing through us both like a secret we couldn’t tell. Because if we said everything we were thinking and feeling right then…if we laid it all out for one another…we might not like the way the words strung together. Or the way fear and hope and bitterness and love mashed up into one big mess in the pits of our stomachs.”
― Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass

“I suppose sometimes it takes getting lost to enjoy the joy of being found”
― Tricia Goyer

“She was the clock, a clock that had lost its key, unwinding in the dark.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“I said, 'tart'!" she snapped.
Lane's brows went up, but I merely continued to smile, choosing to assume that her answer was a reference to where the berries should go, and not to my person.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“Warm sun and robin's-egg skies were inappropriate conditions for sending one's uncle to a lunatic asylum.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“Are you badly hurt?"
"Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

“No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia