Persephone Quotes

“Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“There was so much you didn’t get to choose. The hard way was going to be very hard. It would be a long, long time before I felt safe and warm again. But I would be free, and I would be myself. Show me those fucking pomegranate seeds, I thought. Come on. I’ll eat every last one of them.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“I felt like I was Anne of Green Gables, and I was at long last going to shank Gilbert Blythe’s punk ass and leave him for dead.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“Honestly I could not have explained why I cared so much, but it was like someone had stuck a blunt sword right through my chest and was prying my ribs apart and crushing my heart. Even this, even this I could not have. But of course I couldn’t. I couldn’t believe I’d been so stupid. I couldn’t believe I’d thought I could pass for an actual person. More than anything at that moment I wished my father were here, just sitting there watching cartoons with me. Being with him was the last time I could remember when it took no actual effort for me to believe that I was a real person.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“I just wanted to be somebody else, I didn’t care who. Sometimes I felt like I couldn’t breathe, like I was drowning in myself.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“I took all that stuff and put it in what I thought of as a mental disposal facility. I could picture it quite vividly: it was gray and metal and industrial looking, roughly riveted together, with the words CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE stenciled on it in red. It was a toxic emotional waste storage site. Its capacity was infinite.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“It was like I’d become a ghost without having to go through the messy intermediate step of actually dying. Now I was in tenth grade, and Lindsay was the only one of my friends who’d stuck around. I guess she believed in ghosts.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“I didn’t want to share. I didn’t want to figure it out; I just wanted it to go away.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“I didn’t want tto share. I didn’t want to figure it out; I just wanted it to go away.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“Well, whatever I did, that was not part of me,” I said. “I don’t know what it was, but it had nothing to do with me. It was just a mistake.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“Nothing to see here. Move along. It was like I’d become a ghost without having to go through the messy intermediate step of actually dying.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“The bus was thick with resignation, like a prison bus. Some kids slept. Others—the boys mostly—seemed to actually be stimulated by the atmosphere of despair; they ran feral, like being on a school bus meant they were in international waters.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“I hadn’t chosen my gift, and I hadn’t chosen Alonzo either, but here we were. There was so much you didn’t get to choose. The hard way was going to be very hard. It would be a long, long time before I felt safe and warm again.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone

“It was like I’d become a ghost without having to go through the messy intermediate step of actually dying.”
― Lev Grossman, Persephone