Best 29 quotes of Martina Boone on MyQuotes

As long as you loved somebody, each kiss was hope and wonder, but it was also the potential for good-bye.

A smile and a sword— the way to conquer kingdoms.

Bravery isn’t born. It’s forged in the nightmare places where fear tears the mind apart.

But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.

Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person.

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.

Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery.

Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.

In so many ways, for so many people, freedom was still an illusion. Barrie thought of the statistics she had read about how many women and children were still enslaved all over the world. Now— not three hundred years ago— and she wondered how it was possible that so little could change. Sometimes it seemed like the world was sliding backward and no one was noticing.

It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.

It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

I’ve been out with enough girls to know what I want. I know. You and me together? We’re not the same plain vanilla let’s-date-while-we’re-in-high-school, let’s-go-to-prom, let’s-promise-we’ll-talk-in-college relationship. We’re more like those fireworks on the Fourth of July that keep exploding with new bursts every time they’re done. Before we know it, we’ll be in rocking chairs side by side on the porch, holding hands and watching a houseful of great grandchildren chasing blue ghost fireflies on the lawn.

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

Murder is always wrong, doesn’t matter who does the killin’. Hurtin’ someone else is always wrong. Everyone’s got their burdens. The way the world is, we need faith and hope and joyful praise more than ever to get through.

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them.

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.

That’s what families are for, so no one person has to carry the weight of a burden by themselves.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.

When you loved someone, you couldn’t hold back. Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe.

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?

You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.

You didn’t find strength when you couldn’t live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you thought was possible.

You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.

You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.

You shouldn’t ever love someone because you hope they’ll change. You have to love them for who they already are.