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1 " Home is a choice. "
― V.E. Schwab , Gallant
2 " There is no rest in sleep.These dreams will be the death of me. "
3 " I have lived at Gallant all my life. But home is meant to be a choice. I did not choose this house. I am tired of being bound to it. "
4 " Every house has secrets "
5 " A place this wild, the outside is always trying to get in. "
6 " Ash holds its shape until you touch it. "
7 " When people see tears, they stop listening to your hands or your words or anything else you have to say. And it doesn't matter if the tears are angry or sad, frightened or frustrated. All they see is a girl crying. "
8 " Rain drums its fingers on the garden shed. "
9 " Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me.I would write the words a thousand times if they'd be strong enough to hold you here. "
10 " Free-a small word for such a magnificent thing. I don't know what it feels like, but I want to find out. "
11 " I slept in your ashes last night. It was like you laid your shadow down before you left. It smelled like hearth smoke and winter air. I made a blanket of the empty space. I pressed my cheek against the place where yours had been. "
12 " It does not matter what you want-the only way out is to be wanted by someone else. "
13 " She wanted to want it, to feel what the other girls felt. But she didn't. And yet, Olivia is full of want. She wants a bed that does not creak. A room without Anabelles or matrons or ghouls. A window and a grassy view and air that does not taste of soot and a father who does not die and a mother who does not leave and a future beyond the walls of Merilance. "
14 " Safe does not mean happy, does not mean well, does not mean kind. "
15 " Tired can be a kind of sick, if it lasts long enough. "
16 " I am so happy. I am so scared.The two, it turns out, can walk together, hand in hand. "
17 " Put the right words into the world, never know what you’ll catch. "
18 " She knows too well what’s it like when people take one weakness and define you by it. "
19 " Perhaps you are haunting me. What a comforting thought. "
20 " To those who go looking for doors, are brave enough to open the ones they find, and sometimes bold enough to make their own. "