Zoe Marriott Quotes & Sayings

Your heart is beating so fast," he said softly, the words barely more than a whisper. "I can feel your blood humming under my hand. Are you frightened of me? — Zoe Marriott

Real love is hard because it requires one to know and accept another person with all their faults. — Zoe Marriott

No one knows me. Not anymore — Zoe Marriott

It may seem strange to you, but there are no such creatures in Athazie. There is an animal-a very large animal-that lives on the plains and is much the same shape. We call it gadahama. The golden hunter. He does not say meep, meep as these tiny ones do. His voice is like this.' He drew in a deep breath, then let out a deafening roar. The cats fled in all directions at once as they scrambled away. — Zoe Marriott

I've learned a lot about love over these last months. And part of what I've learned is that you have to want someone for who they are, not who you want them to be. You have to love a real person, not some dream in your head. — Zoe Marriott

I don't want you because I expect you to swoop in and rescue me and make everything all right.I don't want you because you're beautiful. None of that matters. you could never be a bad bargain to me, because ... you're you.
And I love you. — Zoe Marriott

Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought. — Zoe Marriott

Love comes like storm clouds
Fleeing from the wind, and casts
Shadows on the moon. — Zoe Marriott

And he will kiss me again, I thought, almost dizzy at the wonder of it. He will kiss me a thousand times more, and in a thousand ways. — Zoe Marriott

I would listen to her soft voice and wonder if, somewhere deep inside, she was screaming, too. — Zoe Marriott

I never knew my mother's name. — Zoe Marriott

All humans are made, in essence, of starstuff, and I sometimes wonder if the starstuff still calls out to us. — Zoe Marriott

I thought then that you were the bravest girl I'd ever met, and nothing that's happened since has changed my mind. — Zoe Marriott

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both. — Zoe Marriott

Trusting anyone can get you killed. — Zoe Marriott

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there — Zoe Marriott

Why does it hurt so much? Why does it have to hurt? — Zoe Marriott

You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth. — Zoe Marriott

My first memory is of the smell of sunwarmed earth. — Zoe Marriott

To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans — Zoe Marriott

I've been in darkness nearly all my life, and you brought light into my existance for the first time. And maybe that's why I started to ... have feeling for you. You seemed like a dream. [ ... ] But that's just infatuation. Hero worship. It's not real. I've learned a lot about love in these last months. Abd part of what I've learned is you have to want someone for who they are, not who you want them to be. You have to love a real person, not some dream in your head. Neither of us could have lived that way. — Zoe Marriott

How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of turn, arguing and answering back so many times. Not anymore. Now I would do what I wanted, and no one would stop me. — Zoe Marriott

Our greatest warriors,' Terayama-san said, 'believe that they are already dead. They live as if their lives are over, and so fighting holds no terror for them.'
A Suda-san looked gravely at him. 'That, Terayama-san, is one of the saddest things I have ever heard. — Zoe Marriott

On my fourteenth birthday when the sakura was in full bloom, the men came to kill us. — Zoe Marriott

It is not like that. I am not punishing myself. The cutting makes me feel better." "Hurting — Zoe Marriott

I am so angry all the time, and so sad, and it screams inside me and never stops. Cutting is the only thing that eases me. — Zoe Marriott

Couldn't a woman be happy doing a great many things, just as a man could? — Zoe Marriott

It's as if people
normal people
are made of silver. Shiny to start with, but tarnished by time, by ill-treatment. Luca ... Luca is gold. Nothing in the world could ever make him shine less brightly. — Zoe Marriott