Mary Lindsey Quotes

#1. You need to talk to Alden about your feelings for him, Race said.
"You don't know anything about it. Mind your own business, Race."
You love him. I know. I'm in here. I feel your soul, Rose.

Mary Lindsey

#2. Something darker always lurked under even the most placid surface.

Mary Lindsey

#3. There are things that defy logic. Things that speak to the instinctual fear cloaked by our conscious minds.

Mary Lindsey

#4. Bogeymen or not, I was in love with Alden Thomas, regardless of what name I went by or what demon wanted me dead.

Mary Lindsey

#5. I had to be careful. Nothing from the Otherworld was benign, especially something in packaging this attractive.

Mary Lindsey

#6. The pain had no ebb or flow. It was a constant ever-increasing knell in my chest, timed to the beating of my broken heart.

Mary Lindsey

#7. It's difficult to reconcile the fantastic with reality; hard to accept that things we can't see exist - terrifying, in fact.

Mary Lindsey

#8. His hair was still wet, and he was in a black long-sleeved T-shirt and tattered blue jeans. His feet were bare. Casual. Comfortable. Gorgeous.

Mary Lindsey

#9. Hey, Lenzi ... my offer from a century ago still stands. If Alden doesn't treat you right, I'm here for you in any capacity, if you know what I mean.

Mary Lindsey

#10. Something instinctual in me sensed evil in the house. Perhaps it spoke to my own darkness.

Mary Lindsey

#11. He rolled me under him to kiss me. It wasn't a gentle kiss like at the beach, or passionate kiss like the one that happened in his room. It was desperate. Desperate and hungry and sad.
A good-bye kiss.

Mary Lindsey

#12. We all hold a monster inside. The only difference is what form it takes when freed.

Mary Lindsey

#13. You can stick to your immovable zero-tolerance rules, but I'm going to stick to the motto "There's hope until the last second'!

Mary Lindsey

#14. My throat tightened when I noticed a small tattoo of an origami rose on his upper arm. . .
"Hey, Lenzi," he whispered, barely louder than the surf.
"Rose," I said as our lips met. "My name is Rose.

Mary Lindsey

#15. This is a little too cozy, don't you think?" I remarked.
"Your absolutely right." He patted the drivers seat, "Come on, Spook. Three's a crowd." The dog jumped up onto the seat.

Mary Lindsey

#16. . . . I love the school uniform. You have great legs."
"Shut up!" I gasped. "I thought you were an old man!"
"Old soul. Young man. Big difference. . .

Mary Lindsey

#17. ... it's not possible to truly become desensitized or accustomed to discrimination. It's something one endures.

Mary Lindsey

#18. Flattery is nothing but attention without intention.

Mary Lindsey

#19. Maybe you should mind your own business.'
'You are my business. My job. You are what I do.'
I whipped around to face him. 'Well if I'm your job, your fired. You creep me out.

Mary Lindsey

#20. Alden seems like a very nice boy. The kind of boy I'd like to see you hanging out with." I almost laughed out loud. If she only knew! A reincarnated, soul-sharing lunatic. Ghost Boy---every mother's dream.

Mary Lindsey

#21. I can just imagine the recruiting poster. 'Ghost whisperers wanted: no experience necessary. Death wish and masochistic tendencies a must.

Mary Lindsey

#22. There's hope until the last second.

Mary Lindsey

#23. Sometimes natural and self-inflicted atonement is more severe than that of mankind's devising.

Mary Lindsey

#24. He didn't miss them. He didn't miss any of his life, really, especially the last year. Time had simply been a bookmark. Something that held his place while he waited to finish the story.

Mary Lindsey