44 Quotes by Jackson Pearce

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from judgement.

Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they’re really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don’t.

The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.

My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have a heart that is undeniably, irreparably different.

How could I possibly try to pretend the sunlight doesn’t exist, now that it’s taken so much of me?

Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.

I recognize the look in Silas’s eyes – adoration. I furrow my eyebrows and try to shake away the feeling of being punched in the face.

It’s just that it’s impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.

I follow, always, because its the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when Im certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two.