Amy Engel, The Book Of Ivy Quotes
I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.
Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.
I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.
My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.
But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.
I don't trust most people. Except for you.""Why me?""Because everyone needs someone to put their faith in.
My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.
But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.
I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.
There are only two choices. Stay here and die. Or get up and see what happens next.
How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?
He didn’t save me, though. He allowed me the freedom to save myself, which is the very best type of rescue.
Life is one sick joke after another, I'm discovering. Because it hardly seems fair that it should hurt so much to finally get exactly what I've been wishing for.