240 Quotes by Rachel Hartman

It’s more like... she has grown too big and feels trapped in her own skin.

More insomniacs!′ cried the doctor. ‘Come in, come in”.

Tess had thought her grandmother, somewhat poetically, as having come unbuttoned from time.

If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitable end up at a point of illogic, an article of faith? Even an indisputable fact must be chosen as the place to start reasoning, given weight by a mind that believed in its worth.

It was a place that wasn’t a place, an inside that surrounded the outside.

I saw what they thought of you,” said Mother Philomela, her voice gentling. “I rejoiced that you’d struck out on your own, but you’ve a long way to go still. Your kindness toward this one, when you needn’t have troubled yourself” – she gestured at Griss – “shows me the true heart of you. Your credo goes further than you realized: walk on, yes, but don’t walk past people who need you. Uncurl yourself so you can see them and respond.

Maybe the world isn’t really different, but I am different, and I am in the world.

I do what I have always done. I reach across and bring the worlds together.

Around us the darkness hovered tenderly. We passed through it.