9 Quotes by Pamela Todd

Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them. She liked the way the word sounded in her head. I am an ephemeral. It made her feel like something passing and precious.

It was an ugly flower, pink with yellow-tipped stamens sticking out of the center. It deserved to die. Zoe pulled the hammer back in a slow motion and snapped it forward. There was a delicious sound of cracking plaster as the flower dissolved into rubble. White dust rose all around here."I hate that wallpaper," she said

I love you, Zo. That’s yours to keep. No matter what.

But she found herself drawn to Ivy because he wasn’t like her at all, wasn’t like anyone, really. Most people were different because they wanted to be noticed. ivy was different because he couldn’t be anyone else.

You can’t hold on, Zoe. Not to hate. Not even to love. You kill things that way. There’s only one freedom. Forgiveness. And sometimes the hardest thing to do is to forgive yourself.

Boobs are like boyfriends. You go around wishing for them and trying to figure out what you have to do to get them, and worrying about all the things you’re probably doing wrong, and then one day, who knows why, you wake up and find you’ve got more than you wanted.

She looked at him and realized that she loved him, out of nowhere, pure and simple. She loved him: this boy who fit so naturally in the water, the wild, and in everything else. She loved him: this boy who seemed to grow up out of the ground itself. There was a part of her that had known this from the first time she had seen him. This was what love was: a landslide in your heart.

The things is,” she said at last, ” sometimes people can come back and still be lost.

They like bright colors,” she said. He smiled at her, those dark tameless eyes, half-bold and half-shy. “They like beautiful things,” he said.