Best 14 quotes of Nadine Brandes on MyQuotes

A coward I might be, but at least I was a free one.

But she does it anyway, and I sit beside her...because strength is a choice.

Don't strive to belong, Parvin. Your effort is much better placed elsewhere.

I breathed in the safety that came from a hidden secret.

I squeezed his hand, so tight it likely pained him. But sometimes comfort needed to sting more than the sorrow for it to break into the grief.

This isn't how it should be, God. Thousands of graves marking thousands of lives--so much focus on death. Did the gravediggers spend their lives just serving the dead? How many Numbers ticked away for the sake of carving headstones no one would read? As I stare at this scene, I decide I don't want a headstone when I die. I don't even want to be buried. I want to disappear--save that chunk of earth for people to live on. This land I stand on is worthless now. No one can build a house here. No one can plant gardens or start a new village. Is that what the people buried beneath me would have wanted? Earth wasn't intended to hold only dead bodies. I stand. God, I need to live.

My train of thought felt rebellious, but also... organic. Cleansing. Like that was what men were supposed to do. Be seekers of the answers and the truth. To be above the influence and opinions of the outspoken.

Ribbons! Long ones, short ones, ones for every mood." He does a little dance to the singsong rhythm. "Thin ones, thick ones, and ones to tie your shoes!

She was fire and life. She was awe and starlight.

Sorry about the rain. This is your doing? I'm doing everything I can to change Catesby's mind. The mare plodded along. I looked to the skies. maybe add some hail.

So why did I come for her? Why did I allow emotions to control me? Emotions were deceptive. They made men do foolish things

Take a breath, Thomas. There has always been fear. There will always be fear. It's up to us to stand tall, even when the fear demands we bow to it.

Your skin and plague don't define you.

You shouldn’t be placing hope in our lives, Parvin. That’s my point. I don’t know the answers of the future, but your confidence and hope need to be in God.