Adele Griffin Quotes

United States, Writer
July 29, 1970

Adele Griffin is a young adult fiction author, writing numerous novels for young adults, most recently The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone, as well as the Vampire Island and Witch Twins series. Her novels Sons of Liberty and Where I Want to Be were both National Book Award finalists.

This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

Adele Griffin
- Story
- Hot
- Grabbed
Fears are to be faced, not denied, and life is to be lived, not mourned.

Adele Griffin
- Life
- Fears
- Mourned

But he's got your way of making me lean into peace whenever I see red.

Adele Griffin
- Peace
- Red
- Lean
It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking.

Adele Griffin
- Life
- Lived
- Speaking
And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.

Adele Griffin
- Power
- Magic
- Shut
You just can't know the feeling of being mother to a girl who you thought might die every single day - right up until the day she did.

Adele Griffin
- Mother
- Girl
- Die
Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.

Adele Griffin
- Hope
- Obese
Revenge is two wrongs that make a right. Julian did something wrong. What did you do wrong?

Adele Griffin
- Right
- Revenge
- Wrongs

The fastest journey is achieved on foot.

Adele Griffin
- Journey
- Achieved
- Foot
Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.

Adele Griffin
- Character
- Story
- Untold