Darcy > Darcy's Quotes

“Because I don’t know if you’ve realized this yet, but you’re alive, Fallon. And every time you look in the mirror, you don’t have the right to hate what you see. Because you survived when a lot of people don’t get that lucky. So from now on when you think about your scars, you aren’t allowed to resent them. You’re going to embrace them, because you’re lucky to be on this earth to see them. And any guy you allow to touch your scars better thank you for that privilege.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“We don't get to choose our parents, and parents don't get to choose their children. But we do get to choose how hard we're willing to work in order to make the best of what we're given.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“Because that’s all we have in life, isn’t it? Our memories. It’s what makes the human experience. Best to get them onto paper before it’s too late.”
― Carter Wilson, The Dead Girl in 2A

“I feel broken.” There was such a distance in her gaze, as if she suddenly saw the raw truths behind all the false comforts children are told. “And nobody can fix me.”
― Carter Wilson, The Dead Girl in 2A

“Maybe that’s what death is. A permanent state of remembrance.”
― Carter Wilson, The Dead Girl in 2A

“So here’s my promise to myself: Whatever time I have left I will fill with joy, love, compassion, and—above all else—grand adventures.”
― Carter Wilson, The Dead Girl in 2A

“Pity is destruction wearing a mask of sympathy. Pity strips you bare. Pity shrinks.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“It was irresistible: the almost.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“It is possible, looking at the ocean, to believe it never ends.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“Tragedy was undiscerning and totally unfair.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“A buzzing paranoia nipped at the edges of Saffy’s consciousness, a fly too subtle to swat.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“She wanted to be good, whatever that meant. As Saffy gazed up at the ceiling, hot tears burning down her cheeks, she prayed that the difference between good and evil was simply a matter of trying.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“Grief was a hole. A portal to nothing. Grief was a walk so long Hazel forgot her own legs. It was a shock of blinding sun. A burst of remembering: sandals on pavement, a sleepy back seat, nails painted on the bathroom floor. Grief was a loneliness that felt like a planet.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“It seemed, then, that mothering did not have to be so rigid. There was no arc to it, no frame through which it ended or began. Mothering could be as simple as this: a woman and her very own blood, breathing in tandem through the darkest heart of night.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“Though you refuse to look at the clock on the wall, you can feel them ticking by, slipping effortlessly from the room. Those seconds. You want to hold on to each one, to feel the texture of your life as it slinks regretfully away.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“A thousand miles away, justice is being served—but justice, Saffy thinks, is supposed to feel like more. Justice is supposed to be an anchor, an answer. She wonders how a concept like justice made it into the human psyche, how she ever believed that something so abstract could be labeled, meted out. Justice does not feel like compensation. It does not even feel like satisfaction.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“She does not believe in heaven or hell, though faith would certainly be easier.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“There is good and there is evil, and the contradiction lives in everyone. The good is simply the stuff worth remembering. The good is the point of it all.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“My mom’s feelings were like intense colors—fiery reds and sparkling, soft pinks and the deepest slate grays. Her shell was fierce, yet on the inside, she was fragile.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Wife Between Us

“The truth is the only way to move forward.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Wife Between Us

“all of us are actually on a spectrum of DID, in a sense. We all dissociate from things in our lives, from memories and past traumas, to some extent.”
― T.J. Brearton, Her Perfect Secret

“anger was so much easier than pain.”
― Jane Renshaw, The Stepson

“But when all’s said and done, you can’t make decisions for them. All we can do is hope to help. Their lives are their own, to do with as they will. And we have to accept that.”
― Jane Renshaw, The Stepson

“People with mental health problems are often isolated not only because they withdraw, but because those around them instinctively do so too.”
― Jane Renshaw, The Stepson

“the noise of the traffic slowing for some hold-up ahead was drilling through her head, loud and aggressive-seeming; a child that suddenly ran after its mother on the pavement made her heart jump in her chest; the rain on her hair, on the sleeve of her sweatshirt, was somehow malevolent, as if deliberately targeting her, making her, ridiculously, want to cry.”
― Jane Renshaw, The Stepson

“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I’m not a violent person, but I do have a good imagination.”
― Daniel Hurst, The New Friends

“Companionship. Love. Those are the real indicators of wealth.”
― Daniel Hurst, The New Friends