28 Quotes by Melinda Salisbury

If someone had told me six moons ago, before I watched my life slip through my hands like water, that my mother would be cursed, locked away, and drugged by my own hand, I would have laughed in their face. Then I would have kicked them for the insult and laughed again.

I’ve learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I’m alone and I’ve never been so content.

Scarecrow queen. Nothing but a dupe, alone in a field, hoping to keep the crows at bay.

If I come to you, I want it to be because I am choosing you, for no reason other than that. I don’t want for to ever doubt it.

Scarron is the kind of village people are born in and die in. Rarely does anyone leave. Still more rarely does a new face arrive. So unless the girl is in hiding, like Silas was, I should be able to find her easily; she’d be known as the “new one” for the next fifty years if she stayed here.

But at least when she has the beast in her she can see me. She can hear me. When she’s my mother I’m a ghost to her. Like my father, and my brother, except I’m still alive. I’m still here.

I can see the things he doesn’t say, because they’re written all over him.

Other people come and go, but family is for ever.

A person can say a lot without speaking.