43 Quotes by Sara Gran

Mysteries never end,” Constance Darling, Silette’s student, told me once, “And I always thought maybe none of them really get solved, either. We only pretend we understand when we can’t bear it anymore. We close the file and close the case, but that doesn’t mean we’ve found the truth, Claire. It only means that we’ve given up up on this mystery and decided to loo for truth someplace else.

Consider the possibility,’” I said, quoting Silette, “’that what we perceive as the future has already happened, and intuition is only a very good memory.

I was glad I wasn’t pretty anymore. It was so much easier to do things like this without being pretty.

The fat lady never really sings her last song. She only changes costumes and goes on to the next.

Those who try to grasp on to the mystery will never succeed. Only those who let it slip their fingers will come to know it, and hear its secrets.

Is the thing we love always our downfall? Always our destruction?

To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries.

He leaned over and kissed me – not for the first time, but it still felt like something. Like something I don’t remember having felt before, or at least for a long time. Like a door had been opened that had been shut so long ago that I forgot it was there, and whatever was behind that door was younger and brighter and less burdened than what I’d becom.

He realized that you can try as hard as you want to escape who you are, but eventually, you realize there is no escape. There’s nowhere to run, and nothing to run to. Nothing ever really changes. The state of life on earth is exactly what it is, and the only chance of a happy life is accepting that. Accepting life as it is. And knowing that there is no escape. And that’s the only freedom he’s ever been able to find.