A Thorn Among Roses Quotes

“I have grown so hateful toward myself that it feels like I might never recover from it.”
― Hayley Anderton, A Thorn Among Roses: A Sapphic Beauty & the Beast Novella

“Do not listen to how the world screams at you and makes you feel unloved. Listen to me. Listen to what your heart tells you, deep down. I want you to feel loved, because you are. And someday…I want you to love yourself.”
― Hayley Anderton, A Thorn Among Roses: A Sapphic Beauty & the Beast Novella

“it always felt like somewhere to reside until the rest of the world offered itself up to me.”
― Hayley Anderton, A Thorn Among Roses: A Sapphic Beauty & the Beast Novella

“I may have wrapped myself in thorns, but she seems intent on untangling me from them, no matter how many times she may prick her fingers. Maybe she believes that somewhere deep down, if she looks hard enough, she will find a heart still as soft as a rose petal.”
― Hayley Anderton, A Thorn Among Roses: A Sapphic Beauty & the Beast Novella

“Everyone has some part of them that desires beauty, craves it deeply, because it determines our place in the world, no matter how we wish it wouldn’t.”
― Hayley Anderton, A Thorn Among Roses: A Sapphic Beauty & the Beast Novella

“I loved the idea of wearing something so beautiful, and yet I never felt that I deserved to.”
― Hayley Anderton, A Thorn Among Roses: A Sapphic Beauty & the Beast Novella

“I realize that I stepped into the room feeling like one person and left feeling like another. What is it about her? Does she breathe the kind of magic that soothes those around her? Or am I simply just forgetting what it is like to be in the company of someone kind?”
― Hayley Anderton, A Thorn Among Roses: A Sapphic Beauty & the Beast Novella

“I have been touched by gold now and it fills me with the feeling of a thousand sparkling stars. But she is the only star that matters to me. Her kiss tastes how I imagine magic should - sweet as honey, sharp as a lightning bolt, hot as the summer sun.”
― Hayley Anderton, A Thorn Among Roses: A Sapphic Beauty & the Beast Novella

“My skin tingled where it had been kissed by gold, her stardust. Her star may have exploded long ago, but it was then that I realized that she is alive and stronger than ever. She is all around us. She is dancing in the flames of every fire. She is whispering through the ocean. She is helping keep the rest of the stars shining.”
― Hayley Anderton, A Thorn Among Roses: A Sapphic Beauty & the Beast Novella