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Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3) QUOTES

Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3) QUOTES

1 " The whirlpool splashed into view, swirls of blue and green simmering against an outcropping of grayish-brown rock in the glow of half-light. I stared out at it in fascination and wonder, feeling as if I had entered the setting of a fairy tale and this was a magical pool, perhaps the looking glass of a unicorn or the home of an enchanted prince, ancient as time itself. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

2 " There are walks of pain—the pacing-around-your-house-lonesome-heartbreak kind. There are walks of joy—leaping and bold, ecstatic with good news. There are walks of new beginnings—the first steps of a child or a young woman learning to become like a child again.

And there are hornets’ nests of walks that sting you with living terror. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

3 " And, so, in silver fragments of the past, wisps of crowned yesterday fell lightly in the morning dew. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

4 " Because, without it, the silver will not stand. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

5 " Sometimes there are moments colored in shades
that glimmer like soft silver light
Like a poem, they bid us on.
Their direction unknown, but clear
Sometimes the color is only dirty gray, ugly,
coarse, unrefined
But it propels us forward,
Because, without it, the silver will not stand. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

6 " Peter folded his arms, and smiled knowingly at me.

“Okay! So, this is a big moment for me—”

“—eating bread with jam.”

“—important jam on important bread, Mr. Asturian! "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

7 " And in it she found a stillness and peace, a beauty that gently wrapped up the unraveled ends and lost questions and unresolved threads of life’s journey.

In it, she found the entirety, the end, the beginning, and the moments in between, the essence of all she was and had ever been, and all the world was and had ever been. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

8 " Soft white billowed about the surface, blowing gently against the windowsill in remembrance of the enigmatic swan’s graceful flight. Or so it reminded me, alluringly tranquil in its flicker of light and form, but not quite translucent. Not quite here. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

9 " Sometimes rambling could almost make things better, ease my quickening heartbeat with its own flurry of madness, brush aside the tendrils of the night in an assemblage of scattered words.

Even if they were the wrong words. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

10 " And there, as promised, was the grizzly bear habitat, dozens of the brown and black bears ambling along grass and tree below. Yet, from my position above, I did not fear—as I might have a snake—the large animals, or concern myself with the notion of a gondola-gone wrong and accidentally tumbling into their home like dinner falling into place on a well-set table. It was as if we were viewing a dozen worlds in a single instant, partaking in the thrill of it all. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

11 " Neat rooms are much like one-dimensional characters—they remain static, unchanging. They lack depth. Now this reminds me of a dynamic character—much more personality! "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

12 " The great Rocky Mountains, softly shaded in
gray, were submerged in a sea of fluffy white clouds, feathery wisps enveloping the peaks like a kingdom of the air. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

13 " 75 degrees: the perfect—and possibly only acceptable—temperature. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

14 " They swept down into a great V, sentinels at watch withdrawing, gray swirls and curves of mountains reaching upwards in carefully-shaded lines of chalk and silhouette that overlooked the enormity of a sun-kissed world dreamt in glass-blown shapes.

There was a deep, pervading serenity, quiet
and solitary, in this sanctuary of branch and water, drifting across in far-reaching swells, and I breathed it in—breathed it in as if it could purge any poison from my heart. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

15 " A seaworthy name,” he acknowledged, tipping his hat. “And this here be Battersby. He goes where I go, rain or shine. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

16 " For a moment, I was safe, wrapped in a blue-hued embrace. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

17 " And that,” Peter said with a smile once again
directed at his brother, “says more than you may
think. I rather miss the days when Paddington and
Pooh bears walked about.”

“And picnics were to be had,” Little Dan added. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

18 " Sunken yellow lurched in a mindfield of black
twisted cylinders, falling like poisoned honey across
my vision. It cleared, and became a series of flashing
images, jagged edges of memories, each more
beautiful and terrible than the last, playing across
the screen of blackened cement. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

19 " I held onto it as the world tilted upside down in
a dizzying vortex of lost dreams. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)

20 " A sash of iridescent butterflies fluttered across in remnants of topaz, dipped in distant peacock’s tears as they mingled with forget-me-nots and morning glories, bluebells and cornflowers spilling through the cerulean waters in the flight of an Eastern bluebird. It was no longer solid, but a creature now made of those same prismatic tears it had once touched, too refined and elegant to lose its path even as it faded away. "

― Gina Marinello-Sweeney , Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)