Mortal Tether Quotes

“There comes a time when we can’t blame our parents anymore, when our crimes become our own.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“There comes a time when we can’t blame our parents anymore, when our crimes become our own.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“The Milky Way stretched overhead like the rainbow after a storm. It was a promise that there was light everywhere, even far away in the darkest of places.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“We were exact mirrors of each other, like this broken boy was staring into a bottomless lake and I was his reflection.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“Liam screamed.

Under the terror in his voice, there was something else.
Something I knew well.

A battle cry.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“The cool, calm Liam was a total lie. The real Liam was just a scared little kid.
Like me.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“How should I know?!”
“Well, you’re the expert!”
“Why, just cause I’m a girl I’m supposed to know every single freaking thing about babies?!” I kicked a fallen bottle of ketchup down the aisle. “I’M NOT HER MOM! I’M NOT EVEN OLD ENOUGH TO BE A MOM!”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“I want her to grow up knowing that a person can be both sweet and tough, fragile and strong… and just because a girl’s in distress doesn’t mean she’s a damsel in distress. It’s ok to need help. It’s ok to break down and have to be rescued. In fact, sometimes asking for help is the bravest thing we can possibly do.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“If you truly love someone, you’ll fight for them.

Fighting doesn’t always mean wielding a hammer. Sometimes it means taking a hard job and doing something you don’t want to do. And sometimes fighting for someone means holding them when they cry and helping them remember how to breathe.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“A mortal tether is what binds us to this world. It’s all the beautiful things in our life that make it worth living. It’s the love my parents had for me that lives inside me even though they’re gone and the knowledge deep in my soul that my Mom and Dad would want me to fight and live on and find a way to be happy again. It’s the hope against impossible odds I’ll see my brother one day and get crushed by one of his annoying bear hugs. It’s the pitch of Sara Angelina laughs when I tickle her foot. It’s the deep pink of Liam’s blushes when he steals glances at me and thinks I can’t see.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“Those cannibal freaks opened something worse than Pandora’s box. The girl in that story got stuck with hope. Hope is for suckers. The only thing the geists left in Amaia’s box now burned in my chest.
Rage.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“This time, it wasn’t a lie. It was a gift.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“Funny how little things seem to weigh a ton when you carry them long enough.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“I squeaked and squirmed to get loose, but I was born with the upper body strength of a hamster.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“She glared at me as if I’d accused her of something, which I only occasionally did and never to her face. ”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“I’m not asking you to save the world…” My eyes flooded with tears. “I’m asking you to save your friend!”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“Denny wrapped one arm around me, and I was suddenly warm despite the chill in the air. My heart was doing Double Dutch until the look on Liam’s face tripped it up.

His blue eyes were clouded with something I couldn’t quite recognize before he lowered his gaze to the floor.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“My heart was doing Double Dutch until the look on Liam’s face tripped it up.

His blue eyes were clouded with something I couldn’t quite recognize before he lowered his gaze to the floor.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“The biggest egos are the most fragile.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“You can’t win all wars with violence.
Some require sacrifice.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“Maybe the world hadn’t ended at all. Maybe it was just beginning.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether