370 Quotes by Michelle Hodkin

A half-truth is a whole lie, my mother says.

The closer anyone gets to you, the more at risk they are of falling under your shadow, or being consumed by your flame.

I’ll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.

Imagine, if you will, a sharper, crueler version of Maggie Smith, and you’ll have some semblance of an idea of my grandmother. Add an unhealthy dose of botulinum toxin, and there’s your visual.

He didn’t look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noah – sarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah – cared. And that made him real.

I can’t bear to look at my bed without seeing you in it.

I explore the full boxes, mostly brimming with battered, dog-eared, highlighted books. The pages are worn, well-read, and I skim through them. I wonder if it’s possible to know someone through the words they loved.

And I would never give up. I’ve done terrible things I regret and terrible things I don’t. But I don’t need to be fixed. I don’t need to be saved. I just have to keep going.

She can’t help what she does to you. She is your weakness, as you are hers.