Curious Tides Quotes

“A book was all it ever took to hold him captive.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Dreams are manifestations of our unconscious desires.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Justice and revenge are the same when you're willing to sacrifice all these lives for it.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“A book was all it ever took to hold him captive, make him forget to eat, to sleep, to exist in his own body.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“The idea of saying goodbye was unbearable. Emory had walked back into his life, carved herself a place in it despite all his trepidations, and though Baz doubted he would ever feel fearless like Kai or Romie, he knew Emory had made him want to fear less. This girl who’d laughed in fields of gold, who’d made sunflowers bloom, who’d looked up at the stars with him and thought they were lost should trying to find their way home.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“There is a scholar on these shores who breathes stories. He inhales all manner of them, holds each one in his soul, and when his lungs are too full of words, he exhales at last, daring to breathe his own stories to life. Thus he breathes in words and breathes more out, in and out and in again like the measured rhythm of the sea, until one day he finds a peculiar book that sets even the tides off their fated course.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“though Baz doubted he would ever be fearless like Kai or Romie, he knew Emory had made him want to fear less.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Remember not to veer from the path, dreamling.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Him helping you with this? It goes against all his precious rules. Which means he trusts you. And that’s the thing about Brysden: under all that worry, all that anxiety, his loyalty, once you earn it, is unswerving.” He leaned in threateningly close. “Don’t fuck that up.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Naturally, nothing contented him more than libraries.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“His voice was conjured night. It was a dark wood at midnight, the chilling howl of a beast; it was the quiet of dreams and the pull of nightmares, lovely and frightening all at once.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“He’d stopped time for her”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Magic sustains us like air,” his father had taught him long ago. “Go without it and you suffocate. Keep too much in your lungs and you’ll burst. The key,” he’d said”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“But books allowed Baz to dream without fear of falling.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“There’s only so much of life you can experience through books”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“She was the sea, moving in and out of his life, between this world and the next. But what was the sea if it had no shore to return to?”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides