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The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2) QUOTES

The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2) QUOTES

1 " Are all these books doors?'
'A book is always a door. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

2 " Like all good bookshops, Edgar's was a pocket universe, where time moved slow as clouds. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

3 " My heart settled as I walked in, breathing coffee and paper and sunburnt dust. Like all good bookshops, Edgar's was a pocket universe, where time moved slow as clouds. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

4 " Falling for someone makes you say shit that would've made you vomit, back before you were toast. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

5 " That sounds good," I told him.
"Which part?"
"The part where you're with me."
Falling for someone makes you say shit that would've made you vomit, back before you were toast. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

6 " Love rose up like a noose and circled my throat. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

7 " You are not a victim, or a damsel. Or a girl who runs. [...] You're Alice-Three-Times. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

8 " A book is always a door. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

9 " The Hinterland was a clock, perfectly weighted and balanced and spinning in time. The refugees lived tucked among the cogs, learning when to duck and what parts of their borrowed world to avoid. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

10 " This story is called 'The Night Country.' And it is not a fairy tale. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

11 " We aren't like the creatures who were made in this world. We aren't meant to debase ourselves with then. To live a human life is to forget who we are. To forget who we are is to be an enemy to ourselves. To each other. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

12 " The air smelled like a fairy tail, glitter and green things and blood. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

13 " His eyes weren't soft anymore. They were focused and steady and they held me in their light. In them I could see all the Finches I had known. The fanboy and the wanderer and the traitor and the hero. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

14 " «Algunas veces, tu imagen me asalta con tanta fuerza que creo que la única explicación es que tú estás pensando en mí en ese preciso momento». "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

15 " If you have a chance to bear witness to a dying world, don't, "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

16 " The train was full of teenagers with good shoes and too much confidence. I wanted to put sunglasses on to block out their light. I'd felt younger than them once, and older than them now, but we'd never really been the same age. I didn't know what age I was. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

17 " Like what? What else have you found in a book?"

"Well..." he looked around, like the walls might have ears and reopened the cigar box, faced it towards him so I couldn't see the contents. "Things like this."

He showed me a pressed blue flower as big as my fist, it's stamens flattened in all directions like a firework display. A cookie fortune that read simply 'woe betide you'. A neatly clipped page of personal ads dated September 1, 1970 from a paper called the East Village Chronicler. "Funny stuff right?"
It was. I liked it. The thought that you could find harmless, interesting things tucked inside books. A reminder that the world contained mysteries. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

18 " There was a night when we were down by the water. Across the way we could see the geometric glitter of the Financial District, and I was staring at all the little pin prick windows, reminding myself that every light might have a person under it, and every person had a story, and the city was full of people whose lives were nothing like mine. It was supposed to make me feel less alone, I guess, but instead I was thinking that none of those people, not one, could understand what I was. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

19 " Do you really think that's how it works? The Hinterland was never a place, it was always us. Wherever you go, that's the Hinterland. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)

20 " If you touch me in anger again, I will fucking touch you back. "

― Melissa Albert , The Night Country (The Hazel Wood, #2)