324 Quotes by Cynthia Hand

She would imagine a different life. She would seek it.

I just think, we don’t get promised anything good in this life. Bad things happen all the time. They’re happening right now, somewhere out there. They’ll keep happening. Who knows? Maybe this moment, right here, is as good as I’m every going to be.

Jane’s face could have taught those torches to burn bright. Last night, she was the sun, and all of the flowers in all of the counties turned toward her for warmth.

I’ve seen the future all my life,′ she says. ‘It tends to work as a paradox, in my experience. You find out something is going to happen, and then you do it because you know that’s what happens. It’s a chicken-or-the-egg scenario.

Everything changes, I think. That is the only constant. We all grow up.

Never ever, ever, ever, trust a writer. As a whole, they’re a no-good bunch.

Everything changes. That’s the only constant.

Sometimes it had taken her hours or days to recover from a particularly emotional book, but there’d always been another to take her mind off the anguish.

It’s your mind you have to train, like your mom said that one time, you have to separate yourself from all the crap, get down to the core, focus.