Top 90 Leslye Walton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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

— Leslye Walton

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

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

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5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

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

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9. “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.”

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

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12. “When Henry heard a word he didn’t like, he had to lie facedown on the floor until the bad feeling stopped. Humming sometimes worked too.”

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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. “I have traveled through continents, languages, and time trying to understand all that I am and all that has made me such.”

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15. “They died with empty bellies, their eyes vacant of both dreams and expression.”

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16. “If mother kept a list of the reasons she confined me to the house on the hill, she’d have a length of paper that could stretch all the way down Pinnacle Lane and trail into the waters of the Puget Sound. It could choke passing sea life. It could flap in the wind like a giant white flag of surrender atop our house’s widow’s walk.”

— Leslye Walton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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24. “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.”

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

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27. “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.”

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

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29. “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.”

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30. “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

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

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32. “His heart line was long and curved, and she traced it with her eyes over and over again. A person with a curved heart line was a person capable of great warmth and kindness, a person willing to give their whole selves to love, no matter the cost.”

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33. “To say Viviane had a keen sense of smell was an understatement. She could detect what people had eaten for dinner from a mere whiff of their breath.”

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34. “Because once things turned out, good or bad, there’s nothing you can do about it. It just is. And Henry liked just is.”

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35. “You don’t have to carry it by yourself.”

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

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

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38. “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.”

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39. “She could tell when a woman was pregnant – even before the woman herself might know – just from the way she smelled: a combination of brown sugar and Stargazer lilies. Happiness had a pungent scent, like the sourest lime or lemon. Broken hearts smelled surprisingly sweet. Sadness filled the air with a salty, sea-like redolence; death smelled like sadness.”

— Leslye Walton

40. “As an adult, she carried with her the air of someone forever displaced – not quite part of the white race, yet no longer fitting in with the members of her tribe. In other words, Wilhelmina was a very old soul in a young body.”

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

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42. “Any decent human being, witch or otherwise, had the capacity to do good in this world. It’s merely a case of whether one chooses to do so.”

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43. “She laughed until her cheeks were sore and her throat hurt and her eyes watered. She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.”

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44. “Death just seems to follow some of us, don’t it? Death’s been following me for years. It’s easy to spot your own kind. That kind of sorrow you can’t just wash away; it sticks to you. And people, they can tell. They can feel it.”

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45. “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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46. “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.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “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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49. “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.”

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

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