8 Quotes by Eva Stachniak

Where does destiny end and choice begin?

If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it.

If you don't love, you cannot be betrayed.

I was a tongue, a gazette. The bearer of "the truth of the whispers." I knew of hollowed books, trunks with false bottoms, and the meanders of secret corridors. I knew how to open hidden drawers in your escritoire, how to unseal your letter and make you think no one had touched it. If I had been in your room, I left the hair around your lock the way you had tied it. If you trusted the silence of the night, I had overheard your secrets.

You do not reason with a flood. You look for anything useful that might float your way. On.

But victory is not everything. It’s just as crucial to consider what has been won.

If you act long enough, acting becomes part of you.

Don’t stare into mirrors. It’s easy to get lost in there.