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“A story is an idea, wild as a weed, springing up wherever it is planted.” (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Quotes)
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“A woman must take responsibility for her own education, for no man truly will.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“And this, is what a good-bye should be. Not a period, but an ellipsis, a statement trailing off, until someone is there to pick it up. It is a door left open.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Back home, a good storm would wash the world clean, leave it smelling crisp and new. But it seems nothing can rinse the grime from the streets of Paris. If anything, that storm has only made things worse, the world wet and dull, puddles brown with mud and filth.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades. Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end. everyone wants to be remembered”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Belief is a bit like gravity. Enough people believe a thing, and it becomes as solid and real as the ground beneath your feet. But when you’re the only one holding on to an idea, a memory, a girl, it’s hard to keep it from floating away.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Blink and you’re twenty-eight, and everyone else is now a mile down the road, and you’re still trying to find it, and the irony is hardly lost on you that in wanting to live, to learn, to find yourself, you’ve gotten lost.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Blink, and the years fall away like leaves.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives or to find strength in a very long one.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“But a life without art, without wonder, without beautiful things—she would go mad. She has gone mad.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“But this is how you walk to the end of the world. This is how you live forever. Here is one day, and here is the next, and the next, and you take what you can, savor every stolen second, cling to every moment, until it’s gone.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Do not mistake this kindness. I simply want to be the one who breaks you.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Don’t you remember, she told him then, when you were nothing but shadow and smoke? Darling, he’d said in his soft, rich way, I was the night itself.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Dressing up is just like watching cartoons, something you enjoyed as a kid, before it passes through the no man’s land of teen angst, the ironic age of early twenties. And then somehow, miraculously, it crosses back into the realm of the genuine, the nostalgic. A place reserved for wonder.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Eighteen is old enough to vote, twenty-one is old enough to drink, but thirty is old enough to make decisions.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Everything changes. It is the nature of the world. Nothing stays the same.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Florence is all odd shapes and sharp edges, domes and spires, white stone walls and copper-slated roofs. It is a place painted in a different palette, music played in a different chord.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Freedom is a pair of trousers and a buttoned coat. A man’s tunic and a tricorne hat. If only she had known. The darkness claimed he’d given her freedom, but really, there is no such thing for a woman, not in a world where they are bound up inside their clothes, and sealed inside their homes, a world where only men are given leave to roam.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Funny, how some people take an age to warm, and others simply walk into every room as if it’s home.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“His heart has a draft. It lets in light. lets in storms. It lets in everything.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“History is something you look back on, not something you really feel at the time. In the moment, you’re just living.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, i divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“I do not want to marry. I do not want to belong to someone else. I do not want to belong to anyone but myself. I want to be free. Free to live, and to find my own way, to love, or to be alone, but at least it is my choice, and I am so tired of not having choices, so scared of the years rushing past beneath my feet. I do not want to die as I’ve lived, which is no life at all.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Ideas are so much wilder than memories, so much faster to take root.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“If she must grow roots, she would rather be left to flourish wild instead of pruned, would rather stand alone, allowed to grow beneath the open sky. Better that than firewood, cut down just to burn in someone else’s hearth.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“If you only walk in other people’s steps, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“It is just a storm, he tells himself, but he is tired of looking for shelter. It is just a storm, but there is always another waiting in its wake.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Listen to me. Life can feel very long sometimes, but in the end, it goes so fast. You better live a good life.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Live long enough, and you learn how to read a person. To ease them open like a book, some passages underlined and others hidden between the lines.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“March is such a fickle month. It is the seam between winter and spring – though seam suggests an even hem, and March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens. You don’t know what you’ll find, until you step outside.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“My father made the grave mistake of sending me away to school, and the more I read, the more I thought, and the more I thought, the more I knew I had to be in Paris. This is where the thinkers are. This is where the dreamers live.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“No matter how many times she walks these blocks, no matter how many hours, or days, or years she spends learning the contours of New York, as soon as she turns her back it seems to shift again, reassemble. Buildings go up and come down, businesses open and close, people arrive and depart and the deck shuffles itself again and again and again.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Nothing is all good or all bad. Life is so much messier than that.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Of all the inventions Addie has seen ushered into the world movies might just be her favorite one. Books are wonderful, portable, lasting, but sitting there, in the darkened theater, the wide screen filling her vision, the world falls away, and for a few short hours she is someone else, plunged into romance and intrigue and comedy and adventure. All of it complete with 4K picture and stereo sound.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Pain can be beautiful. It can transform. It can create.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“So much of life becomes routine, but food is like music, like art, replete with the promise of something new.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Stories are a way to preserve one’s self. To be remembered. And to forget.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“The first mark she left upon the world, long before she knew the truth, that ideas are so much wilder than memories, that they long and look for ways of taking root”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“The nicest days are always the ones we don’t plan.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“The old gods may be great, but they are neither kind nor merciful. They are fickle, unsteady as moonlight on water, or shadows in a storm. If you insist on calling them, take heed: be careful what you ask for, be willing to pay the price. And no matter how desperate or dire, never pray to the gods that answer after dark.”
V. E. Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“The old gods may be great, but they are neither kind nor merciful. They are fickle, unsteady as moonlight on water, or shadows in a storm. If you insist on calling them, take heed: be careful what you ask for, be willing to pay the price. And no matter how desperate or dire, never pray to the gods that answer after dark.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“There’s no way to un-know the fact that someone is dying. It eats away all the normal, and leaves something wrong and rotten in its place.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“These days, everyone’s looking down. It’s nice to see someone looking up.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“They say people are like snowflakes, each one unique, but I think they’re more like skies. Some are cloudy, some are stormy, some are clear, but no two are ever quite the same.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“This is what she loves about a city like New York. It is so full of hidden chambers, infinite doors leading into infinite rooms, and if you have the time, you can find so many of them. Some she’s found by accident, others in the course of this or that adventure. She keeps them tucked away, like slips of paper between the pages of her book.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Women at least, women of a certain class – never venture forth alone, even during the day. They are kept inside like potted plants, tucked behind the curtains of their homes. And when they do go out, they go in groups, safe within the cages of each other’s company, and always in the light of day. To walk alone in the morning is a scandal, but to walk alone at night, that is something else.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“You can’t make people love you. If it’s not a choice, it isn’t real.”
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
