Top 90 Leslye Walton Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.”

— Leslye Walton

52. “Love can make us such fools.”

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53. “It was as if Henry carried the world, misshapen and imperfect, in his lovely wide pupils.”

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54. “And how perfectly I seemed to fit into the spaces of his body.”

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55. “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. After a while, when Gabe offered me a morning greeting, it didn’t feel like he was greeting me but rather a giant pair of wings; no girl, just feathers.”

— Leslye Walton

56. “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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57. “That kind of sorrow you can’t just wash away; it sticks to you.”

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58. “Did I need to experience them if I could imagine them?”

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59. “And she knew he would be back, just as she knew that some of the stars that shone bright in the sky were already dead and that she was beautiful, if only to Jack. And that’s just the way it was.”

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60. “She’d always assumed that freedom was a sacrifice one made for love.”

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61. “She struggled to distinguish between signs she received from the universe and those she conjured up in her head.”

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62. “Gabe was unusually tall, so he had to be careful where he stood, for if he blocked the sun, his shadow could cause flowers to wither and old women to send their grandchildren inside to fetch their sweaters. Because of his height, many thought Gabe to be much older than he was. This was both a blessing and a curse.”

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63. “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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64. “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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65. “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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66. “I love you, you know.” Viviane let the words hang in the air between them for a moment, like a sweet pink cloud. Then she inhaled the words in whole, turned them over in her mouth, relished their solidity on her tongue.”

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67. “The morning of December 23, Emilienne woke from the kind of hard, heavy sleep known only to soldiers, drunks, and mothers of newly born children.”

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68. “I feel like the whole world’s been tipped on its axis. Just walking upright feels like too much today.”

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69. “When Nathaniel arrived at his aunt’s house on Pinnacle Lane, carrying all of his belongings in one tiny suitcase, he arrived as a man many believed had never used his hands to point his genitals toward the toilet bowl, had never glanced down the cashier’s shirt as she made change, had never become angry at a traffic light, and never wanted more than what was given to him.”

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70. “For a very long time, Viviane and Jack lived in that world people inhabit before love. Some people called that place friendship; others called it confusing. Viviane found it a pleasant place with an altitude that only occasionally made her nauseous.”

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71. “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. People carried their own distinct personal fragrances.”

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

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73. “But I’d been protected my whole life, forced to watch the world through the lonely window of my bedroom while the night called to me, like a siren luring forlorn sailors onto a rocky shoal. I didn’t want to be protected from the world anymore.”

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74. “I just don’t think you should let other people d-define you,′ Rowe said quickly. ‘I think you could be anything you wanted.”

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75. “She was worried she couldn’t protect me from all the things that had hurt her: loss and fear, pain and love. Most especially from love.”

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76. “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

77. “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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78. “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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79. “They died with empty bellies, their eyes vacant of both dreams and expression.”

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80. “So, see? I’m much more scarred than you’ll ever be. Probably always will be.” There were other scars–from wounds that leave the skin unmarred.”

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81. “What use did the heart have for jewelry anyway? To use her words.”

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82. “I let go of the railing behind me and, stretching my wings to that star-studded sky, soared into the night.”

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83. “She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.”

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84. “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.”

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85. “When American soil could be seen from the ship, the passengers breathed a collective sigh of relief so strong, it caused a change of direction in the winds, which added a day to their trip, but no matter.”

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86. “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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87. “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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88. “If she thought of her love as a commodity and were to, say, eat it, it would fill 4,745 cherry pies.”

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89. “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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90. “Time might heal all wounds, but what about the scars those wounds left behind?”

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91. “He smiled then, bringing back that twinge in her stomach, something that she only later recognized as the pangs of desire.”

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92. “Folks around here like to say we came from the stars. Perhaps it’s simpler to think of us not as human but as creatures made of stardust – that if you cut us, not blood but constellations will pour from out wounds.”

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93. “I found it ironic that I should be blessed with wings and yet feel so constrained, so trapped. It was because of my condition, I believe, that I noticed life’s ironies a bit more often than the average person. I collected them: how love arrived when you least expected it, how someone who said he didn’t want to hurt you eventually would.”

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94. “She didn’t care if he brought her flowers. Or even an apology. She just needed him to be there. She needed him because that was the only thing that made sense.”

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95. “He wept every time one of them died. Gabe was discharged with fatigue after just a year in the service–it proved too exhausting to mourn so many lives.”

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96. “Royal blood flows from our wounds.”

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97. “When Constance Quakenbush smugly asked what she was going to do with her life, now that Jack Griffith was marrying that Laura Lovelorn girl, Viviane answered her with a soda fountain smile and a declaration: “I’m going to fly.”

— Leslye Walton