418 Quotes by Mary E. Pearson

I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.

May the good grant you a still heart, heavy eyes, and angels guarding at your door.

I didn’t need to fall in love with him again. I had never fallen out.

If one can’t be trusted in love, one can’t be trusted in anything. Some things can’t be forgiven.

Three more days. That’s what Sven always told me. When you think you’re at the end of your rope, give it three more days. And then another three. Sometimes you’ll find the rope is longer than you thought.

I only need you, Kazi, that’s all I need.

I knew why he chose the brown. It was the plainest of my dresses, certainly drab in his eyes, but all the better to contrast and showcase the red he’d have me wear tomorrow. I had no doubt he’d ordered the snow itself as the perfect backdrop, and surely he’d ordered the sun to shine in the morning so as not to deter the crowds.

It is good to have many strengths, Natiya... Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another.

Maybe now it was I who would become the assassin.