The Glass Ocean Quotes

“It's easy to love someone you can't have. There's no risk in it.”
― Beatriz Williams, The Glass Ocean

“Listen and love and support and whatever you can. But you can’t expect to save them. You can’t hold yourself responsible for their choices.”
― Beatriz Williams, The Glass Ocean

“You can’t change one thing without changing everything. We all exist on this planet, each of us, because of an extraordinary, improbable, random series of coincidences that can’t be repeated. And everything you do affects everything that happens after.”
― Beatriz Williams, The Glass Ocean

“...I mean, they've got great, twisty plots and all, but the real magic is between the lines. ...”
― Beatriz Williams, The Glass Ocean

“I only want her body if it comes with the rest of her. Her heart, her soul, her conscious will." Mr. Langford laughed without humor. "That's a nice bit of ego, isn't it? Wanting to possess someone entirely, inside and out. But that's what it is: that's what I want, not a quick tumble in the sheets, but a love for the ages., the sort minstrels sing about centuries on. Troy lost, Camelot fallen, diplomacy upended, and kingdoms ruined."

"You talk like that and I'm confiscating your hooch," said Tess tartly. "No one is worth telling the world to go to hell. That's not love; that's arson.”
― Beatriz Williams, The Glass Ocean

“We all exist on this planet, each of us, because of an extraordinary, improbable, random series of coincidences that can’t be repeated. And everything you do affects everything that happens after.”
― Beatriz Williams, The Glass Ocean