20 Quotes by Victoria Laurie

I was like a whirlpool of tragedy, and anybody who dared to get too close to me could get sucked in and drown. Like I was drowning right now.

Deep down it still really bothered me, but I tried not to let it show.

I needed to accept that this was my reality, and nothing was ever going to change it.

He’d been our center, the glue that held us together and gave us purpose.

Hey,” Faraday said after a few seconds. “Did you know your clock’s still ten minutes fast?

I miss you when you’re not around,’ he said. ‘I can’t sleep when you’re not next to me, and I worry a lot about what you’re up to.

My motto is: When in doubt, just keep lying. Even if you’re terrible at it.

I realized then that thinking about what my life might have been was an impossible thing to consider, because in thinking about what my life would have been with Mama still in it, I would have to completely disregard the knowledge of what my life was now, with all its troubles and dangers but also all its miraculous gifts.

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. – Doom with a View.