The Restless Girls Quotes

“They knew now that the dark was simply the beginning of new things. The dark was necessary.”
― Jessie Burton, The Restless Girls

“Sometimes a feeling can be as true as fact.”
― Jessie Burton, The Restless Girls

“You see, the king could control the paths his daughters trod; he could take away their pleasures and their views and lock them up. He could make sure that the princesses didn't have anything in that room except their toothbrushes and tiaras, pajamas and nightgowns. But king or no king, there was one thing they possessed that he could never own: their imaginations.”
― Jessie Burton, The Restless Girls

“The girls weren't alone in this: the world is full of children picking up their parents' crumbs.”
― Jessie Burton, The Restless Girls

“In the scheme of the story, this is a fact both important and irrelevant, like most things are, depending on the time of day you're looking at them.”
― Jessie Burton, The Restless Girls

“Agnes discovered that both the imagined and the real worlds could be equally comforting, and that sometimes it was very hard to tell the difference.”
― Jessie Burton, The Restless Girls