Martina Boone Quotes & Sayings

Barrie wanted to fall into him, her lost to his found, her need to his want. Kissing was like the physical form of magic, all potential and the sense that anything might happen. When she was kissing Eight, she felt like she could fly. — Martina Boone

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you're doing right back at you. — Martina Boone

Things, and people, were always more beautiful when you were afraid to lose them. — Martina Boone

As long as you loved somebody, each kiss was hope and wonder, but it was also the potential for good-bye. — Martina Boone

It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them. — Martina Boone

But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself. — Martina Boone

We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again. — Martina Boone

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn't mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all? — Martina Boone

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing, — Martina Boone

It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now. — Martina Boone

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free. — Martina Boone

But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood. — Martina Boone

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are. — Martina Boone

Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening. — Martina Boone

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth. — Martina Boone

In so many ways, for so many people, freedom was still an illusion. Barrie thought of the statistics she had read about how many women and children were still enslaved all over the world. Now - not three hundred years ago - and she wondered how it was possible that so little could change. Sometimes it seemed like the world was sliding backward and no one was noticing. — Martina Boone

Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time. — Martina Boone

Murder is always wrong, doesn't matter who does the killin'. Hurtin' someone else is always wrong. Everyone's got their burdens. The way the world is, we need faith and hope and joyful praise more than ever to get through. — Martina Boone

A smile and a sword - the way to conquer kingdoms. — Martina Boone

Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person. — Martina Boone

Perceptions were fickle things, as formless as smoke and just as dangerous. — Martina Boone

It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear. — Martina Boone

When you loved someone, you couldn't hold back. Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe. — Martina Boone

I've been out with enough girls to know what I want. I know. You and me together? We're not the same plain vanilla let's-date-while-we're-in-high-school, let's-go-to-prom, let's-promise-we'll-talk-in-college relationship. We're more like those fireworks on the Fourth of July that keep exploding with new bursts every time they're done. Before we know it, we'll be in rocking chairs side by side on the porch, holding hands and watching a houseful of great grandchildren chasing blue ghost fireflies on the lawn. — Martina Boone

Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are. — Martina Boone

You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake. — Martina Boone

You can't have relationships if you're not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you. — Martina Boone

So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them. — Martina Boone

Ultimately, wasn't dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming. — Martina Boone

Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?"
"Not particularly. You have that effect on people. — Martina Boone

Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery. — Martina Boone

You didn't find strength when you couldn't live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you thought was possible. — Martina Boone

You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer. — Martina Boone

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how. — Martina Boone