56 Quotes by Elle Cosimano

"I hope you're worth it."

"Vince sneered at me with bloody teeth and dropped the twenties at my feet as security herded him through the crowd. I didn't pick them up. A shoulder bumped against me, and I looked up into Reece's expressionless face as security marched him past. He didn't even look at me, his words cold enough to burn. "I hope you're worth it."

"And those traces of my father-the pain he'd left behind in the people he'd stolen from, the genes I carried that made me just like him-terrified me."

"I back away as he lurches from the lake and scrambles toward Denver's body, trying and failing to father it in his arms as it flakes to ash. WIth a keening wail, he watches the last of Denver's light drift skyward an die"

"Doug falls silent, his chest heaving as he looks down at the wet ashes stuck to his hands. Then, with a sharp jerk of his head, his fury finds me"

"Sometimes, the only way to find a solution is to break the rules."

"No matter where you are raised or what name you are given, you will endure. You will swim, you will dance, and you will love without fear."

"I reached for her, held my hand out in the space between us. She looked at it, and then to me. And then she placed her hand in mine. I shut my eyes and felt all the love that had always been there, that I had never let myself feel before. All thos things I’d thought my father had taken with him when he left. Everything I needed was here, inside her. ‘I’m sorry,’ I said, letting my own tears fall, ’if I made you feel like you weren’t good enough."

"But I think maybe we had all found something too. The courage to face the pieces of ourselves that frighten us the most. And the power to realize those demons inside only control us if we let them."

"Just because it’s complicated, doesn’t mean there isn’t a solution."