Top 62 Leslye Walton Quotes
#2. The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.
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#3. Did I need to experience them if I could imagine them?
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#4. Emilienne wore Maman's wedding dress. Just after the ceremony, Emilienne glanced in the mirror. She saw not her own reflection but a tall empty vase.
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#5. She struggled to distinguish between signs she received from the universe and those she conjured up in her head.
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#6. Dangers lurk around every corner for the strange.
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#7. It seemed there was no separating the girl from the wings. One could not survive without the other.
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#8. The Griffith House was like nothing Viviane remembered, reminding her of how fast the world changed and of how insignificant she was in the grand scheme of things. She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and difficult. One or the other seemed quite enough.
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#9. The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.
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#10. I knew that in the second letter he misspelled the word existence, replacing the second e with an a; in the fourth he forgot to dot the i in believe. I slept with them not under my pillow but clutched in my hand, with the sweat from my dreams leaking from my palms and smudging the ink.
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#11. Love, as most know, follows its own timeline. Disregarding our intentions or well rehearsed plans.
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#12. Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.
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#13. Because what else was there for me - an aberration, an untouchable, an outsider? What could I say when I was alone at night and the shadows came? How else could I calm the thud of my beating heart but with the words: This is my fate.
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#14. Some sacrifices aren't worth the cost. Even, or perhaps most especially, those made out of love.
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#15. I love you, you know. Viviane let the words hang in the air between them for a moment, like a sweet pink cloud. Then she inhaled the words in whole, turned them over in her mouth, relished their solidity on her tongue.
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#16. She found that she did not mind losing the previous moment, for this one was just as lovely.
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#17. Folks around here like to say we came from the stars. Perhaps it's simpler to think of us not as human but as creatures made of stardust
that if you cut us, not blood but constellations will pour from out wounds.
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#18. I met someone.' And the leaves fell from the trees, landing to float in the calm black waters.
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#19. What use did the heart have for jewelry anyway? To use her words.
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#20. I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.
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#21. Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.
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#22. For a very long time, Viviane and Jack lived in that world people inhabit before love. Some people called that place friendship; others called it confusing. Viviane found it a pleasant place with an altitude that only occasionally made her nauseous.
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#23. And that might just be the root of the problem: we're all afraid of each other, wings or no wings.
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#24. And then, in shocked disappointment, and stunned horror, I'm sure, Connor Lavender realized he was dead.
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#25. That fact filled Gabe with so much hope that he grew another two inches just to have enough room to hold it all.
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#26. She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.
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#27. I have to remind myself that love comes in all sorts of packages.
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#28. He smiled then, bringing back that twinge in her stomach, something that she only later recognized as the pangs of desire.
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#29. She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.
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#30. I have traveled through continents, languages, and time trying to understand all that I am and all that has made me such.
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#31. The smell of glazed sugar and folded pride still lingered on her clothes.
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#32. They died with empty bellies, their eyes vacant of both dreams and expression.
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#33. Gabe pulled her closer. You just lean on me, Vivi. I'll keep us both upright for a while.
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#34. Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?
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#35. Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.
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#36. His heart line was long and curved, and she traced it with her eyes over and over again. A person with a curved heart line was a person capable of great warmth and kindness, a person willing to give their whole selves to love, no matter the cost.
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#37. She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.
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#38. I wonder why I haven't seen that before."
"Maybe you just needed someone to help you see the parts that aren't so obvious.
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#39. I acknowledged Gabe and his attempts at flight the way a legless child might view a hopeful but misguided parent buying a house full of stairs. After a while, when Gabe offered me a morning greeting, it didn't feel like he was greeting me but rather a giant pair of wings; no girl, just feathers.
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#40. She spent her days trying to forget the sound of his voice, and her nights trying to remember.
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#41. Happiness had a pungent scent, like the sourest lime or lemon. Broken hearts smelled surprisingly sweet. Sadness filled the air with a salty, sea-like redolence; death smelled like sadness. People carried their own distinct personal fragrances.
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#42. When American soil could be seen from the ship, the passengers breathed a collective sigh of relief so strong, it caused a change of direction in the winds, which added a day to their trip, but no matter.
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#43. Death just seems to follow some of us, don't it? Death's been following me for years. It's easy to spot your own kind. That kind of sorrow you can't just wash away; it sticks to you. And people, they can tell. They can feel it.
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#45. But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.
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#46. But neither Emilienne nor Connor ever once stopped to ponder the miracles love might bring into their lives. Connor because he didn't know such things existed, and Emilienne because she did.
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#47. To think Viviane was beautiful required a certain acquired taste. It was the kind of beauty perceived only through the eyes of love.
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#49. Because once things turned out, good or bad, there's nothing you can do about it. It just is. And Henry liked just is.
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#51. Foreseeing the future, I would later learn, means nothing if there is nothing to be done to prevent it.
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#52. When Constance Quakenbush smugly asked what she was going to do with her life, now that Jack Griffith was marrying that Laura Lovelorn girl, Viviane answered her with a soda fountain smile and a declaration: I'm going to fly.
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#53. Those born under Pacific Northwest skies are like daffodils: they can achieve beauty only after a long, cold sulk in the rain.
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#54. Folks around here call us el destinos.
They like to say we came from the stars. And when I stare up at the infinite heavens stretched out above us like a shroud, it's hard to imagine we came from anywhere else.
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#55. To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.
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#56. She wore light dabs of face powder on her cheeks to hide the permanent track marks left by so many tears.
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#57. She didn't care if he brought her flowers. Or even an apology. She just needed him to be there. She needed him because that was the only thing that made sense.
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#58. Years later the lights of the growing city would erase the stars from the sky, but back then they shone through the branches like jailed fireflies.
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#59. I just don't think you should let other people d-define you,' Rowe said quickly. 'I think you could be anything you wanted.
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#61. I loved you before, Ava. Let me love you still.
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#62. As he rose to leave, Jack was crushed by the realization that while his father considered himself to be a great man, in his father's eyes the best Jack could ever hope to be was useful.
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