Beautiful Darkness Quotes

“There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.”
― Margaret Stohl

“It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone.
-Macon Ravenwood”
― Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Darkness

“Jump or stay in the boat.”
― Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Darkness

“I saw his face change.
His eyes widen.
He lunged at me.
I wouldn't let go.
We stared into eachother's eyes and clawed at eachother's throats.
As we rolled over the edge of the water tower and fell
the
whole
way
down,
I
was
only
thinking
one
thing ...Lena”
― Kami Garcia

“Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.”
― Paolo Coelho

“I will love you until the day after forever.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

“We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.”
― Kami Garcia

“The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“Sometimes I can feel my darkness, like a fragment of nerves inside of me somewhere, sparking my hate. I picture it moving throughout my body, the other cells letting it pass by, yielding to its master. It moves to my tongue when it wants me to spew beautiful, damaging words, it moves to my hands when it wants me to feel all it can take away, and it moves to my eyes to blind me from truly seeing the destruction I’ve done.”
― Piper Payne, Breathing Black

“Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.”
― Kami Garcia

“He could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no long hold whatever was lurking inside him. The breath was sucked from his lungs like he was being crushed. His vision began to blur, and he had the sensation he was falling, even though he could feel the rock tearing at his flesh as his body seized on the ground.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten.”
― Kami Garcia

“What am I doing here? The Southern Star has vanished, a Cataclyst is calling the moon out of time at the mythical Great Barrier, and you're asking what I'm doing here? Are you serious?”
― Kami Garcia

“Aunque moverse duela como una enfermedad. La mirada se detiene en los rostros que murmuran y no puedes oír lo que están diciendo porque en tu cabeza, el estruendo de los gritos es demasiado fuerte. Aun así, deja que te tiren del brazo y que te suban al coche, y sigues. Porque puedes cuando alguien te dice que puedes.”
― Kami Garcia

“Porque la vida sigue. Los pájaros hacen su tarea y las abejas la suya. Las semillas se dispersan y todo vuelve a crecer”
― Kami Garcia

“...the miserable love to watch someone else's misery. I had just about cornered the market on miserable. I was worse than miserable, lower than a flattened sloppy joe left behind on a lunchroom tray. I was alone.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness