62 Quotes by Melissa Albert

The air smelled like a fairy tail, glitter and green things and blood.

Not yet?' I said. 'What does that mean, not /yet/?''It means the only way out is through. Through the woods, through the story, through the pain. Did you think you'd get what you want for /free/?

You say stories run until you stop telling them,' I said wildly. 'Can't you just decide then? To stop telling mine-- to let me go?

It chilled me to my marrow. Life never turns out how you imagine it will when you're young. Everything is smaller than you think, or too big. It all smells a little funny and fits like somebody else's shirt.

Les ténèbres étaient vastes et coulantes. Elles ondulaient au bord de moi. Tout n’était qu’écho, pulsation, flottement, étirement, sommeil, éveil et faim. Dans mon cœur qui vibrait comme un colibri, quelque chose attendait : un potentiel. Une rage lointaine qui crépitait. Puis il y a eut un souffle, un déchirement en moi et les ténèbres de velours se fendirent. Froid, terreur et lumière blanche glaciale.

His expression mirrored what I felt—the black-hole suck of exhaustion that strikes after a trauma. When everything has changed and your messed-up brain is flying around the stars—then your body and all its needs imposes itself, cutting you off from madness.

I rolled my eyes so hard, i saw my brain

We were checked in by a man who looked exactly how the guy checking you in at a cheap motel in the middle of the night is supposed to.

Toute ma vie, j’avais cru que nous étions poursuivies par la malchance, sous forme de mauvais temps, de désastres, de catastrophes naturelles et de pure méchanceté humaine. Et si tout ce temps, nous étions en réalité poursuivies par l’Hinterland ?