Blackpines Quotes

“Shit,” Oren mumbles.

“Shit,” Mayhem echoes.

“Fuck-fuck.”

Manu looks around, shrugging. “I didn’t want to get jinxed.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

“It’s a name that feels like Pop Rocks on his tongue—bright and crackling; not painful, but not soothing either. It’s the sound of a firecracker bursting into a million sparks and leaving only the memory of light against a smoky sky. It’s the best and worst four-letter word in his vocabulary.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

“/What’s the most interesting thing anyone’s ever told you?/

Nova’s heels banged the cupboards as he cradled his coffee to his belly.

/I don’t know./

/Whale sharks are filter-feeders. They’re the largest fish on earth./

He turned his copper-green eyes on Harper and smiled until the skin around them crinkled. The morning light caught in his left eye, and it blazed, golden.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

“Pink electricity snakes out from her fingertips, jumping from the guitar and sending rainbow-hued sparks floating to the ceiling. She leans her hand to the strings and feels the chunky, percussive roar of the palm mute rumble through the amps. It gnaws at her bones, shakes her blood in her veins like some kind of fantastic, terrible cocktail of sound and iron, and she is so desperately happy.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

“Someone might like you, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be there for you. They can love hanging out with you at happy hour, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to understand if you call them at two in the morning. In fact, the more people like you, the more likely they are to want you to be nothing except the things they like about you. But most people like being liked, so when they feel someone wants them around—and people will want you around if you’re giving them something—they try to please that person. They bend over backwards. You end up used, and used is not loved. Do you get that? Nobody has a lot of friends.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

“I guess if you have shit you don’t feel good about, now’s as good a time as any to figure that out and do what you can about it.”

He glances up at Harper, nodding once.

“I don’t want to give you love advice, though. It’s contrary to my interests.”

“You do love him, then?” Mason asks, and Harper looks away, blowing hair from his face.

“Who knows?”

“I think you know. It just depends on how much you’re willing to be honest with yourself.” He looks down at his hands. “But I’d rather not give you love advice either.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

“No one ever expects Maya. She’s like a suckerpunch personified. If you fool yourself into thinking she isn’t paying attention, or that she’s too shy or introverted to disagree with you, she will put you in your place. I like that about her, though. She’s not a mean or a hard person, but she maintains her boundaries. I’ve never been good about that. My boundaries get trampled, and I become ugly and mean. I act like someone else entirely, and I— Well, anyway, she’s everything you see and everything you don’t.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

“He could make a new life here. There might be bags of cotton candy and pretzels. Those things never go bad. Though a life lived on stale pretzels seems like a pretty steep sentence for crimes of the heart.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

“Jude laughs, and it burns through the dryer-hot air like the first crack of thunder. The crow caws and caws behind her—laughing or screaming, Maya can’t tell. “We are not babysitters. We did not come here to take care of little boys.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

“Four out of five,” Mamaw says. Her body clicks and groans as she shuffles to the edge of the porch. “How much time do you think I have?”

Jude flinches.

“Four out of five,” Maya agrees. “You’ll never outrun your bones like this.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams