8 Quotes by Corinne Duyvis

That would make it easy for Amara not having a choice was always easy. It was always safer. However bad things were, you kept your head down and did as you were told in order to avoid worse. The world always want to people like her to believe those lies. You were always safe as long as you were at someone else's whim. Amara's eyes met Cilla's, dark and beaten and haunted. Not having a choice was the worst thing in the world.

Reading made every trip outside into something more, like strangers talking to her, words and connections wherever she looked. The world had been so empty before.

I look at the sky and the dust that separates us from the stars that will be my home. I breathe in the night air, the rotten night air, and I miss, I miss, I miss.

Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use.

There are skeletons in this earth.

I loosen my grip and take a tasteless bite. I don’t like bananas much—they’re so mealy—but they’re a safe fruit to eat, always cleanly wrapped in their own packages. As I chew, I crane my neck to check out the people around us.

True fear is the kind you can’t reason away. It makes you want to puke. To do anything, except face – whatever it is you fear. And every time you think of it, even for a flash, part of you panics.

I’m not signing up for any end of the world that my sister can’t be part of.