Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass Quotes

“Sometimes, when I'm reading a book, I get so into it that when I look up, I have to blink several times to remember where I am, who I am, what my life is really like. There have been so many times that I've wished I never did wake up, that I died in a dream of words and sentences and characters and romances.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“The fairytales you dreamed of come true - only sometimes they're nightmares. But that's the risk a person takes, isn't it? There are always obstacles, stumbling blocks to the future. It's how we overcome them that determines our character. And every once in a while, we collapse, we break down, we scream and cry...that is what makes us human.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“Disbelief and denial are the tools of the ignorant and the uneducated.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“I think monsters are beautiful, provided their monstrosity is on the outside. It's the ones who keep their monsters hidden that you have to watch out for.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“There have been so many times that I've wished I never did wake up, that I died in a dream of words and sentences and characters and romances.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“No point in going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then, and it's no use now, to pretend to be two people. Why, there's hardly enough of me to make one respectable person.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“And even if they were, they aren't, so I suppose there's no sense in talking about it, unless we're talking nonsense in which case there is some sense in the latter part of the word.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“It’s okay to let myself be happy, and it’s okay to let myself have it. I don’t need to keep up an internal diatribe to make myself feel like a better person.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“Dear Fucking Diary, if I believed in marriage, I’d probably marry this guy. As things stand, I’d like to share a Costco card, cohabitate, and also fuck his brains out. Thanks for listening!”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“All readers dream of finding the fantastical, of escaping into another realm, a realm that’s better than this one, that’s full of hope and magic and love. But they never find it, so they don’t know what they’re missing.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“No point in going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then, and it’s no use now, to pretend to be two people. Why, there’s hardly enough of me to make one respectable person.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“Don’t let anybody ever tell you that hate can’t motivate.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“you live and breathe the reality you’re in,” Mom says calmly, reaching out to take my sister’s hand, but Edy yanks it back and cradles it against her chest like she’s been bitten, like my mother’s words have slapped her hard across the face. “It’s the one nightmare you cannot wake up from.” Hannah”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“you live and breathe the reality you’re”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“I can only wonder if I've spent my whole life holding my breath, spent my whole life with screaming lungs, just drowning, drowning, drowning. Because here, I feel like I can breathe for the first time in forever.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“we have sex traffickers, and pedophiles, and countries with leaders who openly admit to assaulting women—and are damn proud of it. Monsters take all sorts of different forms, don't they?”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“I know what happens to the heart when that love is ripped, when that attachment is snapped so much like bone. The soul, it bleeds to death.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“The fairytales you dreamed of come true - only sometimes they're nightmares. But that's the risk a person takes, isn't it? There are always obstacles, stumbling blocks to the future. It's how we overcome them that determines our character. And every once in awhile, we collapse, we break down, we scream and cry...that is what makes us human.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“I know what happens to the heart when that love is ripped away, when that attachment is snapped so much like bone. The soul, it bleeds to death.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“There's power in his touch, power that drowns me in like a bee to a flower. I just hope that I am the one with the power to sting.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“But then his arms slide around me, and it's like I'm wrapped in a plaid wool blanket, sipping hot cocoa, with a new book on my Kindle waiting for its pages to be devoured.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“I know what happens to the heart when that love is ripped away, when that attachment is snapped like so much bone. The soul, it bleeds to death.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“He's not a psychopath at all, not really. He's a dark, twisted beautiful soul, but a good soul nonetheless. He has emotions, heaps of them. He's just afraid of them, running from them. I'd like to help him catch them.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“There's power in his touch, power that draws me in like a bee to a flower. I just hope that I am the one with the power to sting.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“It's an electronic box that either makes items lukewarm or so scalding hot they bur you. It's kind of a shitty invention, but impossible for lazy people-myself included-to live without.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“When we forget to be surprised by the world, the world no longer surprises us.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“The best part of the worst night of your life is that every night after feels like a blessing.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“Because we’re all mad here, and there are no happy endings. This is just the beginning. And if you’re reading this … you must be mad, too. So welcome, welcome to Underland. Sit down and stay a while.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass

“Sometimes, when I'm reading a book, I get so into it that when I look up, I have to blink several times to remember where I am, who I am, what my life is really like.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass