💬 Quotes

"I will find you. And when I do, I will save you."

"I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand."

"They were the kinds of words that needed to be spoken. Because if you didn't speak them, they just stayed inside you and rotted."

"The problem with my life was that it was someone else’s idea."

"I think that people who suffer a lot have a certain kind of wisdom. But it’s a sad kind of wisdom. It’s the kind of wisdom that makes you want to cry."

"It was funny. You could be happy and sad at the same time. I wondered if that was how the world worked."

"I wanted to tell him that I understood. I wanted to tell him that I knew what it was like to feel like you were on the outside of things. But I didn't say anything. I just stood there."

"Si un homme dit oui, son chi dit oui aussi."

"Les choses s'effondrent ; le centre ne peut plus tenir ; une anarchie déchaînée est lâchée sur le monde."

"I am. I am. I am."

"There’s no such thing as good or evil. There’s only power, and those too weak to seek it."

"I don't want to be human. Humans are messy. They have complicated emotions and they're always doing things for reasons that don't make sense."

"To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed."

"Sometimes you have to step forward into the darkness to make sure that the light on the other side of it is bright enough to lead you home."

"The memory of a person is like a ghost; it haunts you until you find a way to lay it to rest."

"Avery Grambs: 'I don’t want your money.' Tobias Hawthorne: 'And that, Avery, is exactly why you’re getting it.'"

"Everything in this house is a riddle. Everything in this family is a game. And you—you’re the piece that doesn't fit."

"Finders keepers, losers weepers. That was the Hawthorne way. It was a game of strategy, of chess played with people instead of pawns."

"Money isn't just money. It’s power. It’s protection. It’s a way to keep the people you love safe—or a way to ensure they never get too close."

"I’m not a pawn in your game, Tobias. I’m the player."