The Lake of Dead Languages Quotes

“There’s always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.”
― Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages

“yes, he had been preoccupied, but hadn't that been what I was looking for--someone who wouldn't pay too much attention, someone who wouldn't look at me to closely?”
― Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages

“I know that the harder you try to dispel a legend the more power it gains.”
― Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages

“The smile he gives me comes slowly but reaches into someplace deep, someplace that feel as if it's never been touched until now, like the cold bottom of the lake that the sun has never warmed before this moment. "You forget," he says, "you're my heart's true love.”
― Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages

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― Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages