Girls Made of Snow and Glass Quotes

“There are worse things in the world to be than delicate. If you're delicate, it means no one has tried to break you.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“You'll find something that's yours alone. And when you do, don't let anyone take it from you.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“Weak or strong - she didn’t know what they meant anymore. Maybe they didn’t mean the same thing for everyone.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“The only power she has over me now, is what power I chose to give her.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“Every time you shudder from the cold or wrap yourself more tightly in your furs, it reminds me that somewhere, the sun shines more brightly than it does here. You carry it in your skin.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“He knew that if he raised his daughter without love, and that if he told her often enough that she wasn't capable of it, she would soon start to prove him right, if only because it was all she'd ever known.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“If they love you for anything, it will be for your beauty.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“With her beauty as a distraction, no one would ever know that she was, deep down, hollow.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“Perhaps in the tower room, high above the royal crypt, Lynet could put herself back together again.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“If her father had never truly recognized his daughter, then had he remembered his wife wrong as well? What is everything he’d ever told her about her mother was only how he’d seen her, not how she truly was.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“was only the dead mothers who were perfect—the living ones were messy and unpredictable”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“What was the life of a queen compared to the legend people created for her after her death?” (50)”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“If you are delicate, it means no one has tried to break you.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“Lynet was too young to know the prejudices of her fellow northerners, too innocent to see in Mina the sharp glint of her glass heart - and so in her innocence, she made Mina innocent as well."
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― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“he came closer to her and brushed his knuckles against her cheek—“you have beauty, and beauty is more powerful than love. People can’t help themselves: they crave beauty. They will overlook anything, even a glass heart, for it. If they love you for anything, it will be for your beauty. But there’s nothing for either of us here.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“I think a part of me has always thought of myself as sixteen, no matter how many years have passed”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass

“She had read a story like this once, about a girl who was carried away by a monstrous bird to Mount Arzur. But the bird was enchanted, and when the girl kissed him, he turned into a handsome young man. It was fitting, Soraya supposed, that she would kiss a handsome young man and turn him into a monster.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass