Top 350 Mary E. Pearson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Sometimes the enemy is just one person who will bring down a kingdom.”

— Mary E. Pearson

52. “When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?”

— Mary E. Pearson

53. “I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.”

— Mary E. Pearson

54. “Sometimes it seemed the timing of the entire world was off, our intentions coming too soon or too late, life crowding up to blur our vision, and only later when the dust settles can we see our missteps.”

— Mary E. Pearson

55. “Observing and understanding are two different things.”

— Mary E. Pearson

56. “When we lose a battle, we have to regroup and move forward again. Choose an alternate path if necessary. But if we dwell on every action we’ve taken, it will cripple us, and soon we’ll take no action at all.”

— Mary E. Pearson

57. “Words have longer lives than people.”

— Mary E. Pearson

58. “The ghosts, they never go away. They call to you in unexpected moments, their hands lacing with yours and pulling you down paths that lead nowhere.”

— Mary E. Pearson

59. “It’s other people who make us wise, and I haven’t known nearly enough.”

— Mary E. Pearson

60. “Confluence-a coming together by chance... Together they become something greater, but it isn’t delicate or sweet. Like a raging river, a confluence can lead to something impossible to predict or control... Yet sometimes the coming together, the confluence of destinies, seemed not to be by chance at all.”

— Mary E. Pearson

61. “Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It’s about becoming more.”

— Mary E. Pearson

62. “And today, like each time they have landed on my hand for the past two hundred years, I wonder at the weight of a sparrow.”

— Mary E. Pearson

63. “I am a soldier in my father’s army.”

— Mary E. Pearson

64. “Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”

— Mary E. Pearson

65. “If one can’t be trusted in love, one can’t be trusted in anything. Some things can’t be forgiven.”

— Mary E. Pearson

66. “There is one true history And one true future. Listen well, For the child sprung from misery Will be the one to bring hope. From the weakest will come strength. From the hunted will come freedom. – Song of Venda.”

— Mary E. Pearson

67. “Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?”

— Mary E. Pearson

68. “From the loins of Morrighan, Hope will be born. On its heels came a whispered name that was always just beyond my reach, not yet mine to hear, but I knew that one day my children’s children or the ones who came after would hear it. One day hope would have a name.”

— Mary E. Pearson

69. “Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.”

— Mary E. Pearson

70. “I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they’re written in a dictionary. Identities aren’t always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender’s garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.”

— Mary E. Pearson

71. “I cry out and fall to my knees, unable to go on, weeping for the dead, weeping for the cruelties, and a whisper calls to me from far away, You are strong, Stronger than your pain, Stronger than your grief, Stronger than them. And I force myself to my feet again.”

— Mary E. Pearson

72. “Because I knew the guilt would destroy her, and I couldn’t bear for her to suffer any more than she already had. Orrin.”

— Mary E. Pearson

73. “I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.”

— Mary E. Pearson

74. “Sometimes winning is not only a matter of knowing the rules, but of making your opponent think he knows them better.”

— Mary E. Pearson

75. “If I could only reach out and touch the stars, I would know everything. I would understand.”

— Mary E. Pearson

76. “I realized there were assumptions we made about people, and once we did, that was all we could see.”

— Mary E. Pearson

77. “I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.”

— Mary E. Pearson

78. “My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They click, click, click into my brain, like links being snapped together. And then they are done. A small chain of memories that fill in one tiny part of my life. They come out of nowhere, and most are not important.”

— Mary E. Pearson

79. “I only need you, Kazi, that’s all I need.”

— Mary E. Pearson

80. “Well! I’m glad you didn’t call him a buffoon.” “Or pompous,” Pauline added. “Or ignorant,” Jeb chimed in. “Or an ass,” Kaden said. “I didn’t call him an ass.” Rafe grunted. “You may as well have.” Now.”

— Mary E. Pearson

81. “I know you have the patience of a rapidly decomposing turd.”

— Mary E. Pearson

82. “Lia,” he whispered. “Lia.” And I heard the words I love you, even if he didn’t say them.”

— Mary E. Pearson

83. “I have two arms but not a bone, I can’t be hurt with knife or stone. I have a head but lack a face, I don’t need eyes to match your pace. I’m shifty, a thief, a trick of the eyes, My robes are made of mystery and lies. I am short, I am thin, I am monstrous and tall, But when midnight comes, I am nothing at all.”

— Mary E. Pearson

84. “Every exchange of words between Jase and me seemed like a dance, a step forward, a step back, circling, both of us leading, anticipating, wondering what the next move would be. He didn’t trust me any more than I trusted him.”

— Mary E. Pearson

85. “She fascinated me, her contradictions, her secrets, and the girl that sometimes surfaced from beneath her tough soldier exterior, like when she spotted the wish stalks on the bank. The girl who forgot who I was and pressed a wish stalk to my ankle. In another world, another circumstance, I think we might have been friends. Or more.”

— Mary E. Pearson

86. “I do hope the things I’ve forgotten don’t matter.”

— Mary E. Pearson

87. “Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight.”

— Mary E. Pearson

88. “I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.”

— Mary E. Pearson

89. “My breaths shuddered, still hot in my chest. I knew I had made a big mistake, but it was a glorious one, and I wanted to make it over and over again. But there was something in his eyes, something genuine and earnest and true that made me pause. This was more than just making the best of it, this was something taking root, a seed being planted. But it was a seed that couldn’t be planted.”

— Mary E. Pearson

90. “He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I’d find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. it was a conscious effort.”

— Mary E. Pearson

91. “I look out the window, a jammed-up feeling growing inside. Am I going to cry? Or is it something else? My eyes are dry, but I feel like something wants to burst out of me. I focus on the empty road outside. Hold back. Hold it in. Keep your mouth shut, Jenna. Keep it shut. Shut. Shut.”

— Mary E. Pearson

92. “Seconds could change everything. Seconds could erase one path and send you reeling down another.”

— Mary E. Pearson

93. “When your life has had few events to occupy it, it’s amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.”

— Mary E. Pearson

94. “I do want tomorrows with you, Jase. I want a lifetime of tomorrows.”

— Mary E. Pearson

95. “My mother’s abscence hit me in a new, bitter way, because sometimes you can’t begin to know everything you’ve lost until someone shows you what you might have had.”

— Mary E. Pearson

96. “You do not have to be the one to do this.” “It has to be someone, Rafe! Why not me? Yes, I could turn away and ignore everything in my heart. Leave it to someone else! Maybe hundreds have! But maybe I choose to step forward, instead of stepping back.”

— Mary E. Pearson

97. “He looks at me and I know he is going to say no but I don’t turn away and I don’t stop looking because ever since Mira said I noticed him I have made a point not to notice him and for the first time I am noticing that his eyes have a dark ring of brown around a golden iris and I find that infinitely interesting because my eyes are the same color and I think he notices this too at the exact same moment and a chill shivers over me, and like a miracle, he says, “Let’s go.”

— Mary E. Pearson

98. “Now I understood why Sven preferred soldiering to love. It was easier to understand and far less likely to get you killed. I.”

— Mary E. Pearson

99. “I left and went to the roof, where it was only me, a thousand blinking stars, and the beauty of darkness stretched to the ends of the universe, snuffing out the endless games of courts and kingdoms.”

— Mary E. Pearson

100. “Duty. That was a word I hated as much as tradition.”

— Mary E. Pearson