Quotes from Adele Griffin

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

Fears are to be faced, not denied, and life is to be lived, not mourned.

Aunt Clara doesn't take her eyes off her toast. Her delicate jet earrings tremble as her knife scratches at the toast like a cat's paw, buttering every inch. Strange how even the most mundane habits of dislikable people can strike such harsh chords. I even hate the way Aunt butters .

But he's got your way of making me lean into peace whenever I see red.

And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.

This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?

I love that I never know who I'm going to meet next in New York. Sometimes I imagine all these millions of kids who have come here like jeweled doorknobs marked "turn me." It's an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of city.

The fastest journey is achieved on foot

Revenge is two wrongs that make a right. Julian did something wrong. What did you do wrong?

Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?

You just can't know the feeling of being mother to a girl who you thought might die every single day - right up until the day she did.

The truth? I saw an artist locking herself in the same prison cell that had almost killed her. Boring is also dangerous. Idle hands, et cetera.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking