Top 350 Mary E. Pearson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That’s how you’ll get there.”

— Mary E. Pearson

2. “It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.”

— Mary E. Pearson

3. “Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way.”

— Mary E. Pearson

4. “Some things aren’t meant to be known. Only believed.”

— Mary E. Pearson

5. “Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.”

— Mary E. Pearson

6. “Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can’t see the other. They don’t know they are connected.”

— Mary E. Pearson

7. “Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It’s calculating and cold.”

— Mary E. Pearson

8. “Be brave, be victorious.”

— Mary E. Pearson

9. “They’ll pay for this. All of it. I promise. One day they’ll pay.”

— Mary E. Pearson

10. “Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can’t cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can’t. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don’t dream.”

— Mary E. Pearson

11. “Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn’t stop.”

— Mary E. Pearson

12. “There is something about her eyes. Eyes don’t breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.”

— Mary E. Pearson

13. “There is magic in everything, only you must watch for it. It does not come from spells or potions or the sky, nor by special delivery of the gods. It is all around you.”

— Mary E. Pearson

14. “The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.”

— Mary E. Pearson

15. “But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we’re all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way.”

— Mary E. Pearson

16. “Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.”

— Mary E. Pearson

17. “The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.”

— Mary E. Pearson

18. “Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it’s where you pour your heart out.”

— Mary E. Pearson

19. “Some scars took longer to heal than others, and some scars, I knew, were necessary. Some things you should never forget.”

— Mary E. Pearson

20. “Once we fear to take a stand, tyranny will have won.”

— Mary E. Pearson

21. “Regroup. Move forward.”

— Mary E. Pearson

22. “Three more days. That’s what Sven always told me. When you think you’re at the end of your rope, give it three more days. And then another three. Sometimes you’ll find the rope is longer than you thought.”

— Mary E. Pearson

23. “Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.”

— Mary E. Pearson

24. “But when I turned a chill caressed me – Go – a voice crawled up my spine – Leave – a finger turned my jaw – Hurry – and then there was a rushed blur of voices, hands, faces, running through the hall – Shhh, this way, run, don’t say a word. Death strode among them, glanced at me, but this time he didn’t smile. He wept. His arms were full and he could carry no more.”

— Mary E. Pearson

25. “I’m sure our paths will cross again, and our differences will be settled once and for all. Walk carefully, because next time it will be I who will surprise you.” My.”

— Mary E. Pearson

26. “Love didn’t even seem like the right word to explain how I felt about her. The word seemed too small, too used, too simple, and everything I felt about her seemed complicated and rare and as wide as the world.”

— Mary E. Pearson

27. “Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.”

— Mary E. Pearson

28. “My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can’t save for later. There might not be a later.”

— Mary E. Pearson

29. “It began with the stars.”

— Mary E. Pearson

30. “It’s the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.”

— Mary E. Pearson

31. “Yes, I want to kiss you, Jase Ballenger. Not for show or to make the best of it. I want to kiss you because I want you, every part of you, even the parts that infuriate me beyond telling, because you’ve infected me with a poison that I don’t want to flush out, because you’re a mad viper twisting around my middle, cutting off my breath, yet I want you more than I want to breathe. Yes, Jase, I want to kiss you, just because I do, but the one thing I cannot do is promise you any tomorrows.”

— Mary E. Pearson

32. “Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?”

— Mary E. Pearson

33. “But I am more than a name. More than they tell me.”

— Mary E. Pearson

34. “There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.”

— Mary E. Pearson

35. “Hear the language that isn’t spoken, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind it.”

— Mary E. Pearson

36. “I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.”

— Mary E. Pearson

37. “On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly beat -sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, an artist, a scribbler – sometimes the beat is changed one person at a time.”

— Mary E. Pearson

38. “What had her life been like in Venda? Or maybe, more precisely, what had they done to her? She was not the result of happy, content parents. It was like she’d been held prisoner in a cellar her whole life. She flinched at sun and an open sky. As soon as we hit the Heethe plateau, she kept her eyes straight ahead on some distant point, her focus like steel, her shoulders rigid, like she carried a heavy pack on her back.”

— Mary E. Pearson

39. “You must find the magic that warms your skin in winter, the magic that perceives what cannot be seen, the magic that curls in your gut with fierce power and will not let you give up, no matter how long or cold the days.”

— Mary E. Pearson

40. “Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can’t define your identity.”

— Mary E. Pearson

41. “We all have a dark place in us. It’s what we do with it and the choice we make.”

— Mary E. Pearson

42. “Her tears, they ride the wind. She calls to me, And all I can do is whisper, You are strong, Stronger than your pain, Stronger than your grief, Stronger than them. – The Last Testaments of Gaudrel.”

— Mary E. Pearson

43. “I used to be someone.”

— Mary E. Pearson

44. “There are no rules in survival.”

— Mary E. Pearson

45. “Pieces. Isn’t that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?”

— Mary E. Pearson

46. “I don’t want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.”

— Mary E. Pearson

47. “One small changed family doesn’t calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.”

— Mary E. Pearson

48. “Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.”

— Mary E. Pearson

49. “You’ve always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won’t break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.”

— Mary E. Pearson

50. “Where we are going, I don’t know. It doesn’t seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.”

— Mary E. Pearson