62 Quotes by Melissa Albert

She talked like a woman who knew more books than people.

And while they're being told, stories create the energy that makes this world go. They keep our stars in place. They make our grass grow.

I made my way here alone for a long while. It took some time to find my place. It took more time to become somebody worth protecting.

We have a choice, and we're choosing it. This isn't fate, Finch, this is getting bullied by supernatural assholes.

You'll do fine without a story,' she said comfortingly. 'Who needs a story?

I wanted my mom, in a way you maybe can’t ever want anyone else. It was primal and sharp and it made me feel like a needle in the haystack of a cold and terrible world. I wanted my mom.

Every time we left a place, I felt the things that happened there being wiped clean, till all that was left was Ella, our fights and our talks and our winding roads. I wrote down dates and places in the corners of my books, and lost them along the way.

If you touch me in anger again, I will fucking touch you back.

When a world dies, it doesn't go out with a whimper.