Holly Cupala Quotes

When the worst happens and you still survive, it sets you free from fear.

— Holly Cupala

“ASHES.
He had reduced me to ashes.
And now I would rise.”

— Holly Cupala

“At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other fly.”

— Holly Cupala

We're all family
the only family we've got. It doesn't have to be blood.

— Holly Cupala

“Keep your eyes on the future, because that's where the answers are. It's where the hope is.”

— Holly Cupala

“I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman with a face like a mask. Envy was a treasure-hoarding dragon, dainty and diabolical. As I sketched in the dragon's face, I gave her eyebrows like mine, my turtle necklace around its scaly neck.
Xanda drew them as cliffs and valleys, irrevocably linked pride as a mountain, envy as a valley, hating its lowness and longing to reach, overtake, conquer. She drew vanity as a volcano with an abyss at its core.”

— Holly Cupala

“If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?”

— Holly Cupala

“It's the grit that makes the pearl.”

— Holly Cupala

“Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word I had never before dared to think about him.
Future. Hope.
And love, as the rain slowed to a misty trickle through the long and beautiful night.”

— Holly Cupala

“Maybe that's why he watched over all of us
because of the ones he couldn't protect, he took care of the ones he could.”

— Holly Cupala

“She looked like she wanted to take her right up to the baptismal waters and introduce her to some redemption.”

— Holly Cupala

“I thought of Shelley in the hospital, how she said sometimes sadness only looked like anger and judgment. Maybe fear did too.”

— Holly Cupala

I started to sway Lexi again when I realized she was quiet. Waiting. Both of us paused on the cusp of the unknown. I couldn't go backward or even retrace my own steps, let alone Xanda's. I could only go forward. The threads of time weren't unraveling but weaving into a tapestry
a future, and a hope.
The only way to discover was to step into it.

— Holly Cupala