"When the Moon Was Ours" Quotes
Two friends, one who hangs moons in trees and the other who grows roses from her wrist, face prejudice and love in a small town.
fantasy | 273 pages | Published in 2016
Quotes
You are the first decision of my heart, and the only one I’ve ever been sure of.
She was the only one who could understand what it was like to be a girl in a boy’s body.
Words were not the only way to tell someone what you were feeling.
Pumpkins are magic.
She was a girl who would need the moon, not to light her way out of the dark, but to guide her back to it when it was time to return.
The best way to take power away from a person is to make them feel like they don’t have any.
It was like the moment between dreaming and waking, when the world was still soft and the edges were not yet hardened.
People mistook magic for miracles. But magic was like a runa, a way of speaking to the world.
Maybe that was the trick to magic, to making people feel like it was real.
If you dropped a boy and a girl in the woods, they’d do different things, yes, but they’d both be doing what they loved.
