5 Quotes by Linsey Miller

I would remember them forever–their names, my reasons, the way their bodies slumped in death and their eyes stared through me. If I stopped, if I let their deaths weigh me down and keep me from being Opal, it was all for nothing. There was no going back. I was what I was, and they were a part of me now.

You are not the people who love you or the people you've lost. They're just parts of you. You are so much more than you've been led to believe.

Sometimes, the worst times, things happen and there's no reason to it at all, and all our little plans and artistries leave us with nothing but a pyre full of ash and head full of memories blowing away in the wind

Well.’ Maud handed me a bandage. 'That was the most foolish thing you’ve ever done.’'Don’t joke. We both know it isn’t.

My mother always said I had the emotional depth of a puddle during a drought