With a Reckless Abandon Quotes

“His mind betrayed him and now we were all victims of the horrible deception.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“My madness was too much for them and it was my affliction.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“I had assumed that a boy who loved me so intensely was full of happiness, love, and light so that he was free of his own demons and pain.

My assumption was entirely wrong.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“Keep your temperance, Alexander. I want to live!" He threw his hands into the air and he smiled out to the wide skies above.

That's what hope looks like, I thought.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“You see Alexander was my weakness just as I was his. No one in the world had fought for me as relentlessly as he always had; ever since I was a just baby in the crib. Neither Father nor Mother when she lived, ever made him do it for me. It was entirely of his own volition.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“I came out here because I didn't want to rot at home alone. Could he even begin to conceive how perfectly wretched it was to have your entire life already planned for you when you were just seventeen?”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“I was beginning to understand why Harold didn't like being around large numbers of people; if you were at all different, people were apt to stare.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“It was almost physically hurting me not to admit to my whole family that she was mine. Ours was a love that I wanted everyone from St. Petersburg and back to know about. Not that I had ever even been to St. Petersburg, but once they knew who I was there, they'd knew who Wren was too.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“Fiction is a blessing to those of us who suffer from mental illness; I'm sure many would agree. To be able to escape into the minds and hearts of other people, is such a uniquely thrilling experience, that everyone should indulge in this freedom as often as possible. It will not only expand your mind in what is possible, but your heart as well, growing empathy for those who live lives so different from your own.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“Love me as I am or not at all;

If you aren't pleased with what you see

Cast me back into the deep swirling sea”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“A soul full of true adoration will not drown you

In affections so false they could kill;

This most urgently, I beg thee, be free!”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“While it was true that I knew very few women, I was convinced that Anya must have been the loveliest of them all. I felt always vaguely disappointed every time I saw her eyes light up when she was in Robert's presence for that is when they shined the brightest. He could be wearing dirty clothes, be covered in filth and she'd still think him the greatest boy alive.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“You deserve better. I'll give you something so, so much better. By all the beating hearts of the rebel poets, I do solemnly swear, my darling, you shall soon be free!”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“During my last bright upswing, I had thrown all of my school allowance for the term on this coat. Collin teased me something horrible yet he wore bright orange without irony. His taste wasn't always to be trusted.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“You didn't ask to be sick. She had said in sympathy and pity. I ignored the pity and embraced the sympathy. What else could I do?”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“The trouble with me is that too much of my blood was bad. The doctors couldn't bleed it out of me; whatever it was.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“Truthfully, I thought some of Robert's outfits a tad too daring. The necklines on some of his shirts plunged further south than those sported by a courtesan from the continent. He owned more patterned scarves than any sensible man ever should.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“As if summoned by my private musings, Robert came rolling down the hill.

Think of the boy and he appears; what kind of faerie meddling was this?”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“This time I wore a bonnet, otherwise the house keeper would scold me as if I were a thoughtless child; the sun will cook your brain and addle your pretty little mind, Mrs. Finch.

Right, I don't think a bonnet could help you any, Madame.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“A life I'd gladly give for what is living if there is no

Happiness, truth, feeling, nor love?

For surely as I was born of human blood

I am a creature of undeniable emotion that cannot be suppressed”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“We are trapped by convention and must marry another.

Every good child knows: duty before your heart's desire.

So in the shadows we remain.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“I was the great family embarrassment after all. Wren was hardly my first misstep. Father called them missteps but to me they were legitimate romances. Live and let love.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“For all the loose morals Robert and his beloved poets had, they were right to celebrate love for it was one of the most powerful forces on earth.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“I had the idea that married couples should be in love, though I doubted that either of Father's wives had loved him. There had been more romance between Uncle Alexander and Leonard. Considering how content they both were, with each other and in life, I'd consider myself an extremely lucky man if I ever were as happy as they had been when they were together.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon