Top 350 Mary E. Pearson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “We all have a dark place in us. It’s what we do with it and the choice we make.”

— Mary E. Pearson

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

— Mary E. Pearson

53. “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

54. “There are no rules in survival.”

— Mary E. Pearson

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

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

— Mary E. Pearson

61. “Sometimes the enemy is just one person who will bring down a kingdom.”

— Mary E. Pearson

62. “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

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

— Mary E. Pearson

64. “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

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

— Mary E. Pearson

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

— Mary E. Pearson

67. “Words have longer lives than people.”

— Mary E. Pearson

68. “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

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

— Mary E. Pearson

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

— Mary E. Pearson

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

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

— Mary E. Pearson

75. “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

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

— Mary E. Pearson

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

— Mary E. Pearson

78. “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

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

— Mary E. Pearson

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

— Mary E. Pearson

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

— Mary E. Pearson

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

— Mary E. Pearson

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

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

— Mary E. Pearson

87. “Killing in the name of war was one thing. Killing one’s own kin was quite another.”

— Mary E. Pearson

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

— Mary E. Pearson

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

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

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91. “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

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

— Mary E. Pearson

93. “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

94. “You have not stolen my heart, but I give it freely.”

— Mary E. Pearson

95. “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

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

— Mary E. Pearson

97. “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

98. “Every kiss, every touch, was a promise that we both knew, I was his and he was mine, and no conspiracy or scheme of kingdoms had a fraction of the power that surged between us.”

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99. “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.”

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100. “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