A Thousand Heartbeats Quotes

“Love has a sound. It sounds like a thousand heartbeats happening at the same time.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“Maybe I've read too many books. I'd hoped for passion, for a love that took reason by the shoulders and shoved it off a cliff.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“You may take my freedom, but you will not be permitted to touch my joy.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“Love has a sound. It sounds like a thousand heartbeats happening at the same time. It sounds like the rush of a waterfall or the still of the world at daybreak. You can hear it at night, lulling you to sleep, and, in the middle of your darkest days, it breaks through like a laugh. “The thing is, some of us have been taught to listen for it, so when it comes, it’s all too easy to hear over the noise. For others, there are too many other sounds drowning it out. For them, it takes longer. But when it finally breaks through, it’s a symphony.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“You know, even in places that are dark, even in the midst of war, sometimes, people find light in each other.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“I picked up one of the books, getting lost in a world where the people had all their dreams come true.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“Because the truth was the same as it ever was: caring about someone made losing them that much worse.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“She dragged her gaze over the boats, finally meeting my eyes. She stopped looking. Had I been what she was trying to find?”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“Never run away, never look away, never explain away. This was how I survived.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“The scent of old books hit me the second I opened the library doors, and I felt the slightest bit of the weight I’d been carrying ease from my shoulders. I surveyed the space, taking everything in, basking in the peace the library brought me.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“And I understand what grief can do. Because grief is simply love with no one to receive it.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“You don't ever have to take a man at his word. Take him at his action. If he abandoned you once, he'll do it again. A man like that is selfish through and through. If you were smart enough to get out of my grasp twice, don't be stupid enough to marry someone like him.”
― Kiera Cass, A thousand heartbeats - Der Ruf des Schicksals

“The moon was rising higher outside, the stars glittering around it like diamonds, though it was plain to see that they weren’t all white. Some were blue or yellow, some pinkish red. The night sky was the best dressed lady at court, the stars her finest dress and the moon her perfect crown.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“unaware that the other existed, and blind to how they’d change the trajectory of each other’s lives. Or how they irrevocably already had.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“...Anika was beautiful in the same way a sunset was: so heartbreakingly sweet your soul could only stand taking in one glimpse a day.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“That word. Orphan. I supposed it was a title we only assigned to children, but even if you were forty or fifty or older still, did it ever not hurt to be without your parents?”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“be the best candidate to entrust it to, and she”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“She picked at a hole in her dress, looking as if she was thinking about something more intently than she wanted too.
So was I
Why had I gone back for her?”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“My place. For years now, my place had been filling the gaps where his cowardice would not reach.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats