“To survive you need to learn to hold contradictory things in your head at the same time. I am going to die; I am going to live. There is nothing to fear; be wary of everything.”
―
Kate Alice Marshall,
I Am Still Alive
“What do you wear when you go to meet a ghost?” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“Little Lucy, dressed in whiteGave her mother such a frightWalked into the woods one dayWhere she went no one can sayDown a road that no one foundOr are her bones sunk in the ground?How many steps did Lucy take?One, two, there, four...” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“Sometimes it seemed like the only thing I’d ever been good at was surviving being broken. I didn’t know how to be whole. So any time I felt like I was healing, I found a way to break myself again.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“There is a wilderness in little girls. We could not contain it. It made magic of the rain and a temple of the forest.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“What happened in the dark?” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“Do you want to know where Lucy went?She went to play the game. You can play, too.Find a partner.Find a key.Find the road.You have two days.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“That’s the thing about trust, isn’t it?” Ethan said. “You gather all the evidence you can, use your brain, weigh character and past actions. But the final inch of it—that’s faith. Trust means believing in someone. It’s not just a conclusion. It’s a choice.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“I cannot tell if I am lying.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“We aren't safe at all.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“If they'd known the truth about Persephone, they would have thought we were strange, wicked little beasts — and we were. What little girl isn't?” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“We knew the world was cruel and dirty and dull, and it was all so brutally unfair that we refused to accept it. There was magic in the world. We only had to find it.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“I’ve spent hours paging through that notebook again and again, but no secrets have unlocked themselves for me. I’ve gone to the place in the forest where Lucy Callow disappeared, in daylight and in the dark, on the full moon, in a white dress, whatever any legend says. Because I don’t believe in ghosts, but I want to. I know Becca didn’t run away. That leaves one possibility and one impossibility, and I long for the impossible. Because if she isn’t dead, if she’s only been taken, she can be brought back.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules For Vanishing
“pain balanced by pain.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“I’d known from the start that he’d sought me out because my sad story was written on my face and he was hoping to borrow it.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“Of course I believe,” I whispered to the dark, but there was no one to answer.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“Fine,” Lily said. “Just don’t flirt in front of me. I’m entirely too cynical for teenage love.” “Aren’t you, like, twenty-three?” Kenny asked. “Yes, but I tested out of my teenage years and went straight to middle age,” Lily replied.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Our Last Echoes
“You have to learn to assume that you will fail and assume that you will succeed at the same time. This is the only way to stay smart and careful and stay moving and motivated. You cannot give up and you cannot let up.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive
“Beware, beware, the Harrow Witch, with soul as black as blackest pitch.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, These Fleeting Shadows
“What do you wear when you go to meet a ghost?” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“Little Lucy, dressed in whiteGave her mother such a frightWalked into the woods one dayWhere she went no one can sayDown a road that no one foundOr are her bones sunk in the ground?How many steps did Lucy take?One, two, there, four...” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“Sometimes it seemed like the only thing I’d ever been good at was surviving being broken. I didn’t know how to be whole. So any time I felt like I was healing, I found a way to break myself again.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“There is a wilderness in little girls. We could not contain it. It made magic of the rain and a temple of the forest.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“What happened in the dark?” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“Do you want to know where Lucy went?She went to play the game. You can play, too.Find a partner.Find a key.Find the road.You have two days.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“That’s the thing about trust, isn’t it?” Ethan said. “You gather all the evidence you can, use your brain, weigh character and past actions. But the final inch of it—that’s faith. Trust means believing in someone. It’s not just a conclusion. It’s a choice.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“I cannot tell if I am lying.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“We aren't safe at all.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing
“If they'd known the truth about Persephone, they would have thought we were strange, wicked little beasts — and we were. What little girl isn't?” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“We knew the world was cruel and dirty and dull, and it was all so brutally unfair that we refused to accept it. There was magic in the world. We only had to find it.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“I’ve spent hours paging through that notebook again and again, but no secrets have unlocked themselves for me. I’ve gone to the place in the forest where Lucy Callow disappeared, in daylight and in the dark, on the full moon, in a white dress, whatever any legend says. Because I don’t believe in ghosts, but I want to. I know Becca didn’t run away. That leaves one possibility and one impossibility, and I long for the impossible. Because if she isn’t dead, if she’s only been taken, she can be brought back.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Rules For Vanishing
“pain balanced by pain.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“I’d known from the start that he’d sought me out because my sad story was written on my face and he was hoping to borrow it.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“Of course I believe,” I whispered to the dark, but there was no one to answer.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
“Fine,” Lily said. “Just don’t flirt in front of me. I’m entirely too cynical for teenage love.” “Aren’t you, like, twenty-three?” Kenny asked. “Yes, but I tested out of my teenage years and went straight to middle age,” Lily replied.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, Our Last Echoes
“You have to learn to assume that you will fail and assume that you will succeed at the same time. This is the only way to stay smart and careful and stay moving and motivated. You cannot give up and you cannot let up.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive
“Beware, beware, the Harrow Witch, with soul as black as blackest pitch.” ― Kate Alice Marshall, These Fleeting Shadows
