Looking Glass
Christina Henry
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Girls like us, we have to save ourselves. Nobody else will get you home.”
“But you can’t escape from shadows or pain. You only find new ones. It’s better, I think, not to try to escape them at all but to accept that they will be there, and to remember that good things happen, too, even if you can’t always see them.”
“you’ve escaped from certain death before, so your odds are probably better than the average person’s .... She’d survived before. She’d survive again.”
“Your magic is there, if only you would let it be instead of fighting it all the time.”
“But of course the kinds of adventures that happen to young women are never the sort that you tell over cognac, and they usually leave scars”
“You weren’t broken, Alice,” Hatcher said. “You were only cast in a new mold, and she didn’t like the shape of it.”
“She’d taught Alice how to use her magic, how to accept what it could and could not do, how to make it come when she called and lie quiet when she didn’t need it. Much of what she taught Alice had seemed like knowledge Alice already had, only it was hidden under the surface of her skin, waiting for her to peer underneath.”
“She should make some light. Sometimes she could do that, if she concentrated hard enough, though the magic place inside her often seemed to shift around, like it was trying to hide from her.”
“Little lost Alice decided she didn’t want to be lost anymore.”
“Little lost Alice decided she didn’t want to be lost anymore. Somehow Elizabeth had gotten the impression that Alice was a broken thing, not someone to be admired. But then she remembered the Voice telling her that Alice “made it all fall down.”
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Book Keywords:
broken, save-yourself, light, trauma-survivor, trauma, survivor, home, lost, girl-power, magic, trauma-healing, believe-in-yourself, alice, past, hatcher
