The Mirror Season Quotes

“Every moment of our life, it goes with us. It lives forever. And a lot of those moments you don't have much say over. So the ones you do, you've got to do everything with them. So that what lives forever is something you want to live with.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season

“Then comes another hand. And another one. They come out of the dark like the night is growing them.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season

“It's not too late for any of us.
We survived.
Now we can live.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season

“Sometimes getting comfortable around someone means you forget how to be careful with them.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season

“Don't make me not tell you everything I know. Don't make me be the only one who knows it. I can't know it all by myself anymore.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season

“If you tell me that is has," he says, "if you tell me that knowing helped you, I will listen." He looks at me without wavering. "Did it?"
I shudder, trying to shake off the feeling of Chris's hands in my hair. Every argument I have for telling Lock turns to a thousand crepe myrtle petals in my hands. The wind takes them all. "No," I say.
"At all?"
"No." My voice barely breaks a whisper.
"Why not?" he asks.
I owe him the truth. "Because I have to live with it.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season

“I want to try. But only if you want to hear it. It costs something to listen to someone else's story. People forget that sometimes. So I get it if you don't want to hear mine.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season