33 Quotes by Lily Paradis

They say scars don’t hurt, but that’s a lie. I’m not sure what hurts worse – the ones you can see or the ones so far beneath that they’ll never really heal.

We’re like oil and water, only someone put the oil on the bottom and then dumped the water in, so I’m forever trying to get over him while simultaneously going through him as the pieces of me try to connect on the other side.

Did you just compare our relationship to the plague?

There is something. To say there’s nothing is like ignoring the fact that a fire crackles and emits heat. That’s what we do. We crackle. We pop.

Roots. I have roots. It both thrills me and kills me that these roots might become a sapling – or God forbid, an entire tree.

I’m free now instead of the caged wraith I was then. I know how to embrace my dark side, but it won’t consume me. I know where I’m going because of where I’ve been.

You may have her bones, but I’ll always have her soul.

I didn’t know why I even tried to walk away from him because the invisible grappling hooks that spread from his soul to mine wouldn’t let me get far.

I was always going to do terrible things because it was in my nature.