Christy A. Campbell > Quotes

“She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?”
― Christy A. Campbell, The Sharing Moon

“There is the scent too. Wonder follows it; wonder about how a boy can smell like that when he probably has no idea. He smells like the woods in the winter or the rain when it first falls, or maybe it’s just the way he always smells and there is no way to define it.”
― Christy A. Campbell, A Halo Sun

“The butterflies swirl again in Sera’s stomach. Perhaps they have brought along fireflies too, to light up her soul.”
― Christy A. Campbell, The Sharing Moon

“How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks, where are you going, Seraphina?”
― Christy A. Campbell, The Sharing Moon

“She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.”
― Christy A. Campbell, A Halo Sun

“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.”
― Christy A. Campbell, A Halo Sun

“He reflects on all the times he thought she wasn’t sure of her feelings for him, when perhaps she might’ve been taking a leisurely stroll across Elijah’s heart, leaving footprints behind that he’d never seen.”
― Christy A. Campbell, The Sharing Moon