Labyrinth Lost Quotes

“Right now, I'm just a girl, and there is also magic in that.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“She ate the stars and swallowed the earth,
She is the girl with all the power.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“Not all loves are meant to last forever. Some burn like fire until there is nothing left but ash and black ink on skin.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“Not all monsters look monstrous.’ There’s so much sadness in his voice that I want to ask how he knows that. 'Sometimes they’re perfectly normal humans. Sometimes they’re so beautiful, you would never suspect.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“Why’s it always the heart or the eye of something?” Rishi asks. “You notice that? There are so many body parts that don’t get enough love, like earlobes and belly buttons.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“For a long time, I wanted nothing more than to be ordinary. As we run through the changing paths of this maze, I realize I was never ordinary to begin with. We are built a certain way, and the only thing I regret is that it took me so long to see that.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“I'm not the encantrix everyone thought I would be. Right now, I'm just a girl, and there is also magic in that.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“I didn't want to think about you dead."

"That's the thing, my love. Even if you don't think of the dead, the dead are thinking of you.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“They Call her the Devourer.”
“I'm guessing she's not a unicorn princess.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“The dark has teeth.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“You were a pirate queen who stole a treasure from Cortés and then ended up deserting your crew to man-hungry sharks,” Rose tells her. “We’re your punishment for every lifetime to come.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“Don't touch things just because they're shiny.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“Mama Juanita used to say that when you drop a spoon, get ready for company, probably from a vindictive woman. A fork—a handsome man. A knife—lock the doors and windows.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“I like to think I’m the right amount of cold. That way, no one can hurt me.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“His skin is the green of aging leaves, and his body is covered in thorny vines that move like extended limbs. He raises his hand, and a vine slithers out of the center of his palm. I can see the remnants of the man it once was. Its face is distorted and black veins are visible beneath its skin. In its open mouth are black gums and pieces of broken teeth. Gouged eyes are a mess of torn flesh. They don’t need eyes to see. The blind giants. The”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“The mouse man grins and stuffs his mouth with cake. His wrists are too small for some of his bracelets, and when one of them slips, I notice black-and-red wounds ring his wrists. “Something”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“Gold, silver, and leather bracelets decorate his wrists, and dozens of bauble rings adorn his fingers like knuckle-dusters. My dad had a knuckle-duster from when he was younger. It’s in the bottom drawer of my mom’s dresser wrapped in a yellowing handkerchief. “You”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“remember the night of my Deathday. The portal opened up, and she was on the other side, waiting, her face hidden by the horned skull of a hideous beast.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“By the Deos of eternity. By the blood of my blood. By the light of La Mama and the shadow of El Papa, I offer the blood of the wretched. Open a door to Los Lagos.” There’s”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“When I wake from the memory, I can still smell the dead.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“Blood and rot and smoke and whispers filled my head.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“All lands change for the worse when the people do not fight back. Now there is nothing left.” “But”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“The withered creatures are pulling apart from their eternal soup and clamouring for us”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“But what if we were ordinary people, without this darkness surrounding us? Terrible things could happen still. That’s just the way of the worlds.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“Never, ever could you be weak. We all think about leaving, Alejandra. We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.” “But look at what I did! My powers are gone.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“What happened with Miluna, with your father—that was not your fault! I’m going to tell you something about your mother, but you can’t tell her.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“You can’t be mad at her. She had a hard time. I watched you guys every day. You’re an amazing girl, Alejandra. Your mom did the best she could even if it didn’t feel like it was enough. She did the best she could.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“Everyone thinks they have another day, month, year to keep going. As if all of this world and the others were designed for them alone.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“know something isn’t right, but part of me still wants to believe in the spell of the meadow. Spell. It’s all a spell.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost