76 Quotes by Diana Peterfreund

We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren’t violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn’t matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.

Sometimes it’s only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.

If they didn’t take you seriously, they would never see you coming.

For four years she’d subsisted on memories of this – his voice, his face, the sound of his breath and his heartbeat. She felt him like a leaf feels the sun, like a magnet feels metal.

Three syllables and three thousand memories.

When we have the ability to save someone’s life, and we decide they aren’t worthy of being saved – isn’t that playing God as well?

Brandon was a natural at whatever he put his mind to. It was one of the things that made him so attractive. That and his complete lack of pretense. He was brilliant, but didn’t brag, popular, but not cliquish, comfortable in his skin, and utterly forthright about his needs and desires.

She could smell the sea in the air, but more than that, she could smell the scent of the grass as it awoke from its winter slumber. She could hear the sound of crickets as they sang to the emerging stars.

Love was magma, shooting from the Earth. It had the potential to form pillars of rock that would last for a thousand years or plumes of ash that choked the sky.