Top 35 Evie Woods Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Lost is not a hopeless place to be. It is a place of patience, of waiting. Lost does not mean gone for ever. Lost is a bridge between worlds, where the pain of our past can be transformed into power. You have always held the key to this special place, but now you are ready to unlock the door.”

— Evie Woods

2. “No one is coming to save you. People don’t suddenly change, say they’re sorry and begin to treat you with respect. They are a jumble of hurt and pain and they will take it out on whomever they can.”

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3. “Listen to me, Martha – if you’re not scared, then you’re not living.”

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4. “Lost the author believed that every hardship in life was a key to some greater understanding, and it was up to you if you chose to use it to unlock.”

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5. “Good enough for whom? For people who are trapped in a life that is not of their own making? Surely you can see that they merely want you to be trapped with them, so they will feel less alone in their emptiness. Be careful, Martha, you’ll become blind to your own value if you keep looking through the eyes of the bourgeoisie!”

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6. “An angry man was dominant. An angry woman, on the other hand, must have lost her grip on sanity.”

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7. “If you tilt your head,’ he told me once, ’you can hear the older books whispering their secrets.”

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8. “I couldn’t explain it, not even to myself, but books gave me an unflinching sense of stability and groundedness.”

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9. “Jane, in her letters to me, had encouraged the romance: ‘What was the point in flitting off to France if not to take a lover!”

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10. “They were outliers; they no longer cared for the kind of society that would not accept them. Instead, they inhabited a world of artists and free spirits who chose the vicissitudes of a nonconforming life over the comforts and security of the status quo.”

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11. “If you say something enough times, it becomes true.”

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12. “He wasn’t to know it, but I had fallen in love with him like falling down a flight of stairs, and it hurt every bit as much.”

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13. “Stupid, stupid woman. Intimacy is only one string on the bow. The instrument still plays the music.”

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14. “Dull was okay. I knew how to deal with dull. But when you’ve had a taste of magic, it’s hard to be satisfied with the ordinary again.”

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15. “He always said that books were more than words on paper; they were portals to other places, other lives.”

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16. “I don’t just love her for how she makes me feel, I love her because when she came into my life it was like the lights came on.”

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17. “Like following a knitting pattern, I could see that everything was linked, but I had no idea how or why or what the end result would be.”

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18. “To me, the promise of finding what I did not know I was looking for was the lure of the game.”

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19. “I was choosing not to register for college because I was too scared. What I hadn’t realised was that I was actively choosing to stay stuck where I was, which scared me even more.”

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20. “No alcoholic enjoys drinking,’ he said, as though reading my thoughts. ‘It’s all you think about from the moment you open your eyes, but it’s like swallowing poison.”

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21. “I’ve never known or understood what it really means to love or be loved. I’m not going to blame my past, but we all have one and it follows us around like a prison, always keeping us from the person we truly wish to be.”

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22. “I knew I didn’t deserve better, but somewhere inside, I still hoped. That’s what was making me miserable: the hoping. I realised then that I would have to give up one or the other, happiness or hope.”

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23. “Were we all preconditioned to love certain things? A moment in childhood, lost to memory but indelibly marked on our souls?”

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24. “Yes,’ he said, ’the stories are breathing.”

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25. “I would have to give up one or the other, happiness or hope.”

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26. “We all have crap parts and good parts inside, but when you meet someone who makes you realise that it’s all okay, you think, what in God’s name did I do to deserve it? All of my life I’ve been searching for hidden treasure, fortunes outside myself. But Martha, she found them in me. I’m not perfect, by any means, but I know I want to spend the rest of my life making her smile. So I’m damned if I will let her go without a fight.”

— Evie Woods

27. “It means that one sees clearly only with the heart.”

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28. “In some silly way, I thought that the words would bring him back.”

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29. “A new person had joined our family and, without saying as much, we all seemed to be united in the conviction that her experience would be better than our own. We would become better people for her. The process had already started. Perhaps this was why people referred to new life as a miracle, because it had the power to change everything.”

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30. “You may all think you’re walking around exercising your free will in every situation, but you’re not. You’re constantly influenced by what your heart wants, what your head wants and how you want the world to see you.”

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31. “All this time, we had kept our distance from one another. I suddenly realised that, at least for my part, it was purely out of fear of losing another person that I loved.”

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32. “He made me laugh without meaning to. In fact, that was how he seemed to exist in the world. Just making it better, without meaning to.”

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33. “A collection of Russian matryoshka dolls painted brightly in red and blue peeked out at me expectantly from one of the shelves. I couldn’t resist opening one, revealing a smaller doll inside. I opened that too, on and on until I had five dolls, each decreasing in size, all made to perfectly fit inside the largest one. It was exactly how I felt: a fully formed woman, but the little girl inside was still there.”

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34. “The familiar feeling of excitement and curiosity I always had looking in the window of a bookshop pricked my skin. Don’t buy anything, I warned myself, as I craned my neck to look inside.”

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35. “That’s the allure of books – it’s not just the story between the covers, but the story of where they came from, who owned them.”

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36. “We had only spoken for a matter of moments, but I was certain that she was the most intriguing woman I’d ever met.”

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37. “Just then, I felt something I hadn’t experienced in a long time. It was like my heart was smiling.”

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