Top 90 Leslye Walton Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

— Leslye Walton

2. “Just because love don’t look the way you think it should, don’t mean you don’t have it.”

— Leslye Walton

3. “She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and difficult. One or the other seemed quite enough.”

— Leslye Walton

4. “And sometimes when I’m feeling extra down, when I’m missing my grandmother, I have to remind myself that love comes in all sorts of packages.” She motioned to the bakery. “I got this place. Hell, Emilienne, I got you.”

— Leslye Walton

5. “Because I’m your mother, that’s why.”

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6. “And that might just be the root of the problem: we’re all afraid of each other, wings or no wings.”

— Leslye Walton

7. “I knew I was different, but that didn’t make me as human as anyone, or was I something else?”

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8. “The smell of glazed sugar and folded pride still lingered on her clothes.”

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9. “She liked knowing that rose bushes could fall in love and that leaves sang as they fell, a lilting sigh synchronous with their slow descent to the ground. Most trees could dream as well; all Nor had to do was observe a forest at dusk to know it was true.”

— Leslye Walton

10. “And then, in shocked disappointment, and stunned horror, I’m sure, Connor Lavender realized he was dead.”

— Leslye Walton

11. “Treat others with respect, and one should seldom be in need of protection. As for the times when this is not effective, one should do oneself a favor and get a knife.”

— Leslye Walton

12. “Nocturnal birds gathered on the lawns like pious parishioners to eat noisily, their doomed prey screaming wildly into the dark.”

— Leslye Walton

13. “She wore light dabs of face powder on her cheeks to hide the permanent track marks left by so many tears.”

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14. “She, who’d always thought love’s only companion was sorrow, learned that worry came hand in hand with love.”

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15. “She didn’t see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.”

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16. “But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not. Dying required too much action. And if recent events proved anything, my body wasn’t going to give over to death without a fierce fight; so if I were to kill myself, I’d have to make sure I could do it. That I’d be good and dead once it was all over and not mutilated or half deranged but still dreadfully alive.”

— Leslye Walton

17. “Gabe pulled her closer. “You just lean on me, Vivi. I’ll keep us both upright for a while.”

— Leslye Walton

18. “To many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale. Some considered me a monster, a mutation. To my great misfortune, I was once mistaken for an angel. To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all.”

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19. “Two tiny sparrows hopped along the branch of a nearby pine tree, fluffing up their feathers in the rain and chirping at each other fondly. Animals, Nor had learned, have their own names for each other. Best translated, they were typically things like Winsome, Persnickety, and Sanctimonious. Of these two, one called himself Vigilant, the other Balderdash.”

— Leslye Walton

20. “But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.”

— Leslye Walton

21. “How foolish it was to love someone who didn’t love you back.”

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22. “But hidden by those large blooms was Emilienne’s real garden: white chrysanthemums for protection, dandelion root for a good night’s sleep, eucalyptus and marjoram for healing. There was foxglove, ginger, heather, and mint. The poisonous belladonna. The capricious peony. And lavender. One could never have enough lavender.”

— Leslye Walton

23. “The point is, if I cared what everyone else thought, I’d see myself as pitiful, but I don’t. I think I’m pretty cool.”

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24. “Normally led through life by the heart attached to his sleeve, finding logic in love proved to be a bit like getting vaccinated for some dread disease: a good idea in the end, but the initial pain certainly wasn’t any fun.”

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25. “Years later the lights of the growing city would erase the stars from the sky, but back then they shone through the branches like jailed fireflies.”

— Leslye Walton

26. “I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.”

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27. “Maybe you just needed someone to help you see the parts that aren’t so obvious.”

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28. “Unmarried women woke in the night with tears in their eyes, not because they were alone, but because there wasn’t any cake left.”

— Leslye Walton

29. “Why would you be given wings if you weren’t meant to fly?”

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30. “But neither Emilienne nor Connor ever once stopped to ponder the miracles love might bring into their lives. Connor because he didn’t know such things existed, and Emilienne because she did.”

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31. “Rain in the winter smelled simply like ice, the cold air burning the tips of ears, cheeks, and eyelashes. Winter rain was for hiding in quilts and blankets, for tying woolen scarves around noses and mouths–the moisture of rasping breaths stinging chapped lips.”

— Leslye Walton

32. “The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children. Viviane was convinced it was due to the way the rain smelled: like the earth, tulip bulbs, and dahlia roots. It smelled like the mud along a riverbed, like if she opened her mouth wide enough, she could taste the minerals in the air.”

— Leslye Walton

33. “Death smelled like sadness.”

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34. “The largest dahlia in her mother’s collection was called the Dauntless, a bright red flower shaped like a pom-pom and the size of a dinner plate.”

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35. “I met someone.′ And the leaves fell from the trees, landing to float in the calm black waters.”

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36. “Some sacrifices aren’t worth the cost. Even, or perhaps most especially, those made out of love.”

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37. “But she also knew that she would never marry. What use did the heart have for jewelry anyway?”

— Leslye Walton

38. “Up here it seems we have only the stars, but even they seem small in the midst of that terrifying night sky... I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.”

— Leslye Walton

39. “And sometimes when I’m feeling extra down, when I’m missing my grandmother, I have to remind myself that love comes in all sorts of packages. Just because love don’t look the way you think it should don’t mean you don’t have it.”

— Leslye Walton

40. “Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.”

— Leslye Walton

41. “She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved. It was her face that launched the Trojan War, her untimely demise that inspired the building of India’s Taj Mahal. She is every angel in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.”

— Leslye Walton

42. “If the past had taught her anything, it was that as long as she didn’t love someone, he wasn’t as likely to die or disappear. When they were pronounced man and wife, Emilienne silently promised she’d be good to her husband, as long as he didn’t ask for her heart. She no longer had one to give.”

— Leslye Walton

43. “I acknowledged Gabe and his attempts at flight the way a legless child might view a hopeful but misguided parent buying a house full of stairs.”

— Leslye Walton

44. “She spent her days trying to forget the sound of his voice, and her nights trying to remember.”

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45. “The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.”

— Leslye Walton

46. “This is it. This is the reason not to love. If I didn’t love, then whatever I find, no matter how awful, wouldn’t hurt.”

— Leslye Walton

47. “Instead of dying, instead of slowly disappearing until only a broken body remained, what happened was quite the opposite – my body began to repair itself.”

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48. “If Goth ever becomes fashionable again, you’ll be the first person I call.”

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49. “At night nocturnal birds gathered on the lawns to eat noisily, the screams of their prey sounding much like my own mother in hard labor.”

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50. “I have to remind myself that love comes in all sorts of packages.”

— Leslye Walton