418 Quotes by Mary E. Pearson

My body molded to his, and the seconds ticked by. All I wanted was more time with him. His lips traveled to my neck. “It was worth it, Lia,” he said. “Every mile, every day. I’d do it all again. I’d chase you across three continents if that’s what it took to be with you.

My back is dirtier than a potato?

I don’t want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.

Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can’t see the other. They don’t even know they’re connected. Father and Lily were two sides of the same coin, I’ve decided, and maybe I am the space in between.

Sometimes winning is not only a matter of knowing the rules, but of making your opponent think he knows them better.

Maybe some lies, maybe most of them, were lies we only told ourselves.

There were no rules to grief, but there were rules to life, and in those first few days, the requirements of the living demanded I keep going.

The immensity of the death was numbing. But I knew at some point tears would come again. The pain would take hold of me unexpectedly and throw me to my knees. There were no rules to grief, but there were rules to life, and in those first few days, the requirements of the living demanded I keep going. – The Beauty of Darkness.