Serafina and the Splintered Heart Quotes

“Her pa had told her once that true courage wasn’t because you didn’t feel fear. True courage was when you were scared of something, but you did it anyway because it needed to be done.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“With every injury, we become more of who we are,”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“Even we ourselves change, learning and growing, getting pulled down and then rebuilding ourselves again. But for all that, there was a rare and hidden thing, maybe the most important thing, that never changed, and that was the spirit deep inside us, the thing we were when we were a child, and the thing we were when we grow up, the thing we are when we’re at home, and the thing we are when we go out into the world—it’s always with us—that inner spirit stays with us through it all, no matter how our body changes from year to year or how the world changes around us. And through all of this, there is one thing we seek. To be connected to the people around us, to touch and be touched, to have a true family and friends of all kinds with which we share the world and its changes. Like our own spirit within us, our family is the hidden, inner core that deep down never changes, the river that is always flowing.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“My heart is on a journey from where it lives. But I must remember my way home.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“From that very first moment, with her looking up at that stairway that led from the darkness of the basement to the brightness of the world above, all she wanted to do was be part of something. That was all she ever wanted, not just to see, but to be seen. Not just to hear, but to be heard. Not just to feel, but to be felt by other people, to touch them, affect them in some way, to make their lives different, and to be made different by them. And here, on this night, at this moment, on this rooftop, she knew that time had finally come.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“can feel you watching me,” Rowena said.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“She had to trust that no matter how dark her future became, she was strong enough, that whatever happened, whether she passed away forever or somehow found her way through to the other side, she had to trust herself, trust her own soul, her own wisdom, her own strength, to pass through the darkness and unknown. She had to trust that she could become who she was meant to be.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“Sometimes I reckon the universe we live in is one of God’s great machines,” her pa had said. “Its gears are nigh on invisible, and its spinning wheels are often silent, but it’s a machine all the same-like, with patterns and rules and mechanisms. And if you look real close, you can understand it, and for just a spell, in just the smallest way, you may be able to get it to do what you want.” When her pa told her that, he was”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“But as I was looking at this helpless, wounded girl on the ground, I realized that I could save this girl. I have been fighting for a long time now, but that is not what I was before.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“And therein lay its beauty. Set down the hammer, she thought.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“THERE!” he screamed, pointing to her. Serafina broke cover and tried to run.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart