The Girl and the Ghost Quotes

“I always wanted to know about my family," Suraya said quietly, and her voice was small and sad. "But all I've learned of my grandmother so far is that she was a horrible, mean person. And I have her blood. What does that say about me?"
"It says that the most beautiful blooms come from the darkest soil.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Girl and the Ghost

“(But what if you make mistakes? Pink would ask, but she only waved him off. “They’re never mistakes,” she told him. “Only chances to make something new.”)”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Girl and the Ghost

“Fortune favors the bold.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Girl and the Ghost

“Nobody is ever really ready for goodbye, he said gently. But sometimes you need to bid farewell to the things holding you back so that you can move forward.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Girl and the Ghost

“Call yourself a religious man and nobody will question you; do it well enough and you can stab them in the back, again and again and again, while they nod and say it is all for their own good.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Girl and the Ghost

“Power is an addiction. A small taste is often enough for people to crave another, and then another, and then another, and those who have it will do anything to get more of it.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Girl and the Ghost

“It's hard to live a life weighed down by the dead. And you need to live, Suraya.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Girl and the Ghost

“You think you're better than us just because you're older than us? Because you're 'wiser' than us? All that means is that you're an insult to your old age, because nothing I've seen from you so far makes you seem very wise at all.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Girl and the Ghost

“The most beautiful blooms come from the darkest soil.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Girl and the Ghost

“Look, if I can make it through reading all three Lord of the Rings books and still keep the characters straight without my head exploding, then I can handle your life.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Girl and the Ghost