Cruel Illusions Quotes

“Being immortal doesn't let you grow.
All it does it let you lose pieces of yourself.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“Lots of people ask questions they already know the answer to. It's much easier than asking something you don't know and having to guess if you'll like the answer or not”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“I'm sitting on the beach with a family. I'm sitting on the beach with people that seem to want me to be part of their family. They want me enough to train me to fight for it. This is what I really want—not killing vampires. I thought I Had to do that to find peace, but it didn't give me any. This, sitting here with people who always have each other's back no matter what, that's what I really want.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“There are small and easy ways to break a child. I know most of them–making promises you never keep; saying everything will be fine when it never is; giving a Popsicle to one kid and not the other; saying you love them and then pinching their arm hard enough to bruise; never bothering to look at them at all; kissing their forehead at night and telling them you’ll never leave and then dying.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“Sometimes I wish I could post a flyer and have a kind stranger show up at my door and give me back everything i’ve ever lost.
But most lost things never come back.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“I don’t want to heal.” He nods. “Some wounds take time.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“Are you okay?"
An impossible question. I don't know how anyone ever answers it. Isn't everyone always okay and not okay at the same time? Okay in the sense that they're breathing, making it through another day. And not okay in any number of major or insignificant ways.
It's not a yes-or-no question. Either answer makes you a liar.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“This magic is almost too good. It makes me want, and that’s never wise. Better to leave now before I make it worse.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“Book, like any good illusion, pull you in, and for a moment there is only Gatsby, Daisy, Tom and Nick, and you, and sometimes, if the writer’s a master, you’re not even there anymore–you’ve disappeared and pieces of you take root in each character.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“Fairy tales weren’t made for me. But I can handle real and messy, and I want this.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“There’s been something between us for a long time, but it felt too raw, like it was built on both our wounds. Yet maybe having the same wounds makes it possible to heal together, I thought I wanted easy. Healing is hard.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“Being immortal doesn’t let you grow. All it does is let you lose pieces of yourself.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“That’s what i need to hear. We’ll be fine. Eventually. Eventually is what matters.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

“The world still needs a little bit of wonder, I think. I’d like to give it that.”
― Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions