35 Quotes by Martina Boone

Knowing something in your head and knowing it deep down where fear lives are two different things.

You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.

So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them.

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

In so many ways, for so many people, freedom was still an illusion. Barrie thought of the statistics she had read about how many women and children were still enslaved all over the world. Now— not three hundred years ago— and she wondered how it was possible that so little could change. Sometimes it seemed like the world was sliding backward and no one was noticing.

Barrie wanted to fall into him, her lost to his found, her need to his want. Kissing was like the physical form of magic, all potential and the sense that anything might happen. When she was kissing Eight, she felt like she could fly.

As long as you loved somebody, each kiss was hope and wonder, but it was also the potential for good-bye.

Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery.

You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.