All Our Hidden Gifts Quotes

“Anything people come together to believe in is real. Intense, passionate energy that is focused on one spot will create something.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“I think . . . when you’re looking for things that are out of place,” she says softly, “you see all the things that already are.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“She learned to listen for the right sounds by tuning the wrong sounds out, and it had a permanent effect on her personality. If someone says something she doesn’t want to hear, she simply decides not to hear it.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“I'm not really into make-up or jewellery or anything, but I feel like... the only reason I'm not is because everyone expect you to be, as a girl, y'know? Like, whenever I put it on, I'm so aware of how I'm supposed to be wearing it. It kind of ruins the whole experience.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“Lily isn't dirty, per se; it's just that she doesn't really like to live in her body. She doesn't like to notice it. If she could just be a brain in a jar, reading books and drawing, she'd be much happier.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“— Чемні люди, — каже тато, гладячи Тоту, що застрибує йому на коліна, випрошуючи недоїдки, — усміхаються, і вислуховують, і мовлять: «Ой, усе це жахливо», коли чують сумну історію. А добрі люди щось роблять, аби це виправити.”
― Керолайн О'Доног'ю, All Our Hidden Gifts

“Je ne regrette rien," she says softly. "I regret nothing. It's a stupid phrase."
"It is?"
"If you're an even remotely empathetic or flawed person, you should feel regret. If you behave badly, you should look at it, and learn from it, and go on to treat people better.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“I guess your gender feel natural to you. I'm jealous," he replies. Then he pauses. Thinks about it. "Except, actually, no. I don't think I am. I used to be. But the more I let myself just exist, the more fun it gets. So I try not to question it or label it. I'm trying to just see everything as.. negotiable.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“All the witches in stories know things by their true names, don't they?”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“Іноді ми погано ставимося до людей. І якщо ти недосконала людина, яка хоч трохи наділена емпатією, то маєш шкодувати про деякі свої вчинки. Важливо чогось навчитися і в майбутньому чинити краще.”
― Керолайн О'Доног'ю, All Our Hidden Gifts

“Карти - це живі істоти, що дихають.”
― Керолайн О'Доног'ю, All Our Hidden Gifts

“If the girls weren't here, I'd wrap my arms around him. If the girls weren't here, I'd tell him that there's not a single horrible thing about him. That he is calmer and kinder than anyone I've ever met. That he has taken the best traits I associate with each gender and made a cocktail of them all. The deepest parts of chivalry. The oldest kind of beauty”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“Roe sinks his head into his hands, pushing his hair back off his face to reveal two pearl earrings. “What am I going to do?” “You can come to my house. Pat has clothes you can borrow before going home.” “No, I mean, what am I going to do?” he says, his voice breaking. He gestures to himself in his ripped red velvet. “How am I supposed to live?”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“Names are powerful. Three e’s means when you fall in love, it’s for real.”
― Caroline O’Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“I used to feel like I was the master of these cards, the only person capable of interpreting their true message. Now I feel like they’re the master of me.”
― Caroline O’Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“If you’re an even remotely empathetic or flawed person, you should feel regret. If you behave badly, you should look at it, and learn from it, and go on to treat people better.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“Lord protect me from beautiful musicians who call you by your last name.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts

“There's a kind of glamour to be chosen, I think. I understand it, but it still makes me feel sick.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts