Where Dreams Descend Quotes

“Make no mistake, I know I don't have to prove a single thing to them. What matters most is what I prove to myself. Giving up would be an insult to everything I know I'm capable of. And I've already come this far.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“Strange how applause was just noise, when you were all alone.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“For the dreamers who rarely saw themselves in stories and on stages. You belong in the spotlight. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“Only in times without did you truly learn what you were made of.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“A good trick amazes, leaves everyone breathless in the moment. But a great trick truly deceives, keeps the audience wondering what happened, long after the performance.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“The power lay not in bending what the beholder could see, but in convincing the reflection it was something else.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“It was strange to no longer feel those thorns of lies, coursing through her with excuses. Freer, lighter. Even he appeared just as struck by it, though it was far from the first honest conversation they'd ever had. Just the first without those last walls. The tallest, most impenetrable ones that were never built to fall, but had done so anyway.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“He didn't have to know to be her friend. He was just there to be there, and for that he'd become her truest friend.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“Honesty looked interesting on a man.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“Not all magic is good magic.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“I gave you power,” he said quietly. “A life, a stage.”
“You gave me a cage.” Her breath shook. “And now you want to throw me back in it.”
The sharp edges and dark planes of his face shifted under the bitterest of smiles. “That’s where you’re wrong, firecrown. I didn’t throw you in a cage.” He raised a hand by her cheek, close without touching. “You walked right inside and turned the lock. And if you’re not careful, you’ll lose yourself to it.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“The fools thought they could treat her like a flower-take away her sunlight and water so she would shrivel up and die. But she was more the stubborn plant, the kind that thrived anywhere if that's what it took to live. Their first mistake was in thinking obstacles gave them an upper hand. Little did they know, she would always find a way to grow through cracks in the stone.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“She thrived under the attention, like a wildflower under the sun. A star finding the night.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“What’s so wrong with wanting more? I got a taste of it tonight, and it was only the first show.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“Only his face remained the same, half-masked and haunting. Like a prince who relished the bloody crown on his head, and the ghosts that came with it. A face almost hardened by beauty, though glints of youth ran deep beneath soft black eyes.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“Their gazes locked for a moment, their masked faces inches apart.
No one ever dared to get this close. To him, to her.
Only each other.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“The girl paced in her showgirl’s outfit with all the might of wearing steel-forged armor.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“It was the first time someone had talked to her like that. Like an actual player. What a luxury it was to be taken seriously, and what a shame it had taken this long.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“14”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“You are so much more.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“If you can’t stay small in the box they’ve built around you, they will make you feel small until you fit right back in it.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“good trick amazes, leaves everyone breathless in that moment. But a great trick truly deceives, keeps the audience wondering what happened, long after the performance.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“Some mirrors are like windows designed to be more convincing than others. You should always approach them with care. Always think first before trusting your reflection.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“What you see in any reflection is a world unto itself, one you can believe in because what you see aligns with what you know surrounds you.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“There was no honor in a power that snuck into heads and told them how to think.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“The forest never played fairly, for there were no rules once you entered. No direction, no time. What seemed like a mile could've only been mere steps. A minute, a handful of hours. Torment that stretched beyond reality wanted you to feel it, until even the strongest couldn't survive.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“Always think first before trusting your reflection.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“There was control in holding everything to oneself, but there was also weight.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“The moment I grew too reliant on magic simply to keep me here, present, the more I always felt like a performer wherever I went. Like I never got off the stage.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend

“If you can't stay small in the box they've built around you, they will make you feel small until you fit right back in it.”
― Janella Angeles, Where Dreams Descend