418 Quotes by Mary E. Pearson

All ways belong to the world. What is magic but what we don’t yet understand? Like the sign of the vine and lion you carry?

From the loins of Morrighan, Hope will be born. On its heels came a whispered name that was always just beyond my reach, not yet mine to hear, but I knew that one day my children’s children or the ones who came after would hear it. One day hope would have a name.

She fascinated me, her contradictions, her secrets, and the girl that sometimes surfaced from beneath her tough soldier exterior, like when she spotted the wish stalks on the bank. The girl who forgot who I was and pressed a wish stalk to my ankle. In another world, another circumstance, I think we might have been friends. Or more.

Seconds could change everything. Seconds could erase one path and send you reeling down another.

Because if I could believe in tomorrow or the next day, maybe that would give the magic time to come true. Or better, maybe by then I wouldn’t need the magic at all.

The thought weaves into her unexpectedly, as so many thoughts do, time again. How do you make the remembering stop?

Some scars took longer to heal than others, and some scars, I knew, were necessary. Some things you should never forget.

The world would always know, even if men forgot.

Choice is powerful and can lead to great things if not held in the tight fists of a few.