4 Quotes by Vanessa Garden

Do I look that bad?’ I said, my voice quavering with the rejection that I was ashamed for even caring about. ‘Is that what this is all about? How ugly I look?’Patrick kept his eyes on the back wall of the cave.‘If you really have to know, it’s the opposite of that,’ he said, his voice taking on a tender tone. ‘I think you are the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen.

Have you ever read Hans Christian Andersen’s story of The Little Mermaid, Miranda? Have you ever wanted something so badly that you were willing to suffer the sensation of a thousand blades cutting into your feet?

You don’t like me, do you?’ he asked. ‘And yet, you liked it when I held your hand.’I stood there, burning with humiliation.He smiled. A spark of interest illuminated his eyes.‘I find that so intriguing.’‘I didn’t like it,’ I said, when I finally found my voice. ‘I hated it.’Marko smiled.‘Shall we try it again, then, just to be sure?

Marko pressed the creased paper flat against the note stand, rested the pads of his fingers lightly over the top of the keys and began to play. I watched him at first, my eyes drinking in the gorgeous sight that was Marko lost inside his head, but then the music—at first soft, like drops of dew, then rippling and rolling like a shower of rain—swept me away.