129 Quotes by Beatriz Williams

I was not going to wait any longer for my life to start. I was going to start my life on my own.

Graham Pendleton is tall, athletic, charming, glamorously handsome. He excels at all sports, even the ones he hasn’t tried.

What makes you Vivian.′ I liked the way he said my name, all throaty on the V’s, all stretched to its rightful three syllables.

You don’t have a civilized self.′ ‘Yes, I do. Look at me now, quite calm and under control, while you stand right there, a few feet away from me, and the light glows against your skin. Turning you to gold. I don’t think there’s any higher proof of the power of civilization, that I’m not kissing you senseless.

He didn’t have to explain what it was. It was there between them, that invisible bond, that strange sense of ease, as though she had known him always. As if her life would be immeasurably the worse for not having him in it.

And there it was, a snap in his chest, the audible noise of his best intentions cracking in half and cracking again, a chain reaction of thick cracks causing hairline cracks, causing the whole goddamned works, the whole vast machinery of his human willpower, to crumble downward into his abdominal cavity, where it lay pretty much useless.

Now’s your chance, Lily. Remember to ask him about himself. They love that. And for God’s sake don’t talk about books.

Vati, Vati, I miss you so. She didn’t say it aloud, but her throat vibrated with the words.

The floorboards creaked as he stepped toward her. She counted each one, because they belonged to Harry, because the floorboards were so lucky to bear the touch of Harry’s feet.