Volition Quotes

“I will not light myself on fire to keep you warm.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“You have a heart and you have a soul and you have me. You’re not as awful as you think you are. You’re just not the same as everyone else.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“I'm free now instead of the caged wraith I was then. I know how to embrace my dark side, but it won't consume me. I know where I'm going because of where I've been.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“You left pieces of your soul inside me.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“I’m about as perfect as a shattered mirror,”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“All I knew was that I couldn't have him right now. It was impossible. Could I have him in a year? Two years? Five years? Ten years? I didn't know. All I knew was that although the universe was pushing us together, it was also pushing us apart.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“They say scars don’t hurt, but that’s a lie. I’m not sure what hurts worse—the ones you can see or the ones so far beneath that they’ll never really heal.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“Be with someone who is going to ruin your lipstick, not your mascara. So, suck it up, dry your tears, and say yes to the rest of your life.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“No one has hit me. My body is fine. It’s my soul that aches. It’s always been my soul.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“They say that you and your soul mate have a string connecting your hearts—not a literal string, but an invisible one.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“I'm so stupid," I tell her, tears streaming down my face now, blocking my vision.
"You're not stupid. You're just an emotional vampire.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“Roots. I have roots. It both thrills me and kills me that these roots might become a sapling—or God forbid, an entire tree.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“There is something. To say there’s nothing is like ignoring the fact that a fire crackles and emits heat. That’s what we do. We crackle. We pop.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“I didn’t know why I even tried to walk away from him because the invisible grappling hooks that spread from his soul to mine wouldn’t let me get far.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“I resented death because death had rejected me.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“I hate this version of myself because although I think I have all the power, I have none. I am not rational here.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“I was always going to do terrible things because it was in my nature.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“You have a heart and you have a soul and you have me. You're not as awful as you think you are. You're just not the same as everyone else.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“THERE’S A CERTAIN beauty in sleeping beside another person. You’re in their space, and they’re in yours, and you’re both at your most vulnerable.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“the funny thing about perception. I will never be able to experience the words the way you will, and you’ll never see them the way I do.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“I desire the things that destroy me in the end,”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“You may have her bones, but I’ll always have her soul.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“Ah,” he says, “a burnt child loves the fire”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“We’re like oil and water, only someone put the oil on the bottom and then dumped the water in, so I’m forever trying to get over him while simultaneously going through him as the pieces of me try to connect on the other side.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“The one person who would understand is the one person I can’t call. Jesse. I’ve sworn off Jesse. No good can come from him. From that. He and I are like two hurricanes colliding from separate bodies of water.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“Nope, but somehow, I think I’d move bodies night and day for you, Tate McKenna.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“Did you just compare our relationship to the plague?”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“That’s the catch about the things we love. We can hold them for a short time, but in the end, we never know how much time we’ll have.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“I look up into the sky to see all the drops falling on the ground before they make contact. I realize the drops have more in common with me than I think. We're all just falling until we're not falling, and we don't really have a choice where we land.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition

“He’s Hayden Rockefeller. And I’m in trouble.”
― Lily Paradis, Volition