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“Insomniacs know that there is something about the night. A darkness, an energy, a mystery that shrouds things. It hides things at the same time as it illuminates them. It is this thing that allows us to examine our thoughts in a way that we can't during the day. It is this thing that brings truth and clarity.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“By night, I am free.
No one hears my monsters but me.
My freedom is fragile, though,
Because every morning,
Over and over,
The night is broken by the sun.
It’s a good way to die.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“Some problems aren’t fixable, but that doesn’t mean you should stop. That sense that you can’t move forward ... that’s the trap. It’s better to take the best future you can manage with what you have, than to put your life on hold trying to fix everything in the hopes of a perfect future that might never come.”
― Annette Marie, Reap the Shadows

“Everybody made faces around here. Human beings, she discovered, could not maintain the stony, frozen expressions of the merfolk, not for an instant. There was not a moment where their faces remained blank. There was always a light in their eye, and the light, like red wind, would flare into a raging fire without notice.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“Answers that are not freely given aren’t really answers at all.”
― Courtney Cole, Verum

“You aren’t understood, and I can’t explain it. That doesn’t mean you’re crazy.”
― Courtney Cole, Lux

“The only thing worse than drowning in grief is sharing a lifeboat with other drowning people.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“Things go round and round. Everything comes again. Until someone does something so differently that they change everything.”
― Anya Allyn, Music Box

“There’s nothing stronger than that." Cale sounded so sure. "Than choosing someone and fighting for them. There will never be anything stronger than that”
― Teshelle Combs, Vane

“That was one of the worst things about being sick. Someone was always waiting on you, which meant disappointing people was inevitable.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, The Girl In Between

“Because the truth was I was tired. I was tired of fighting but more importantly I was tired of losing, of being disappointed.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, The Girl In Between

“But maybe I could give myself something too—permission to keep trying. Even when it felt like it was all for nothing. Even if trying was all I ever did, I shouldn’t stop.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, The Girl In Between

“If I had to pull an all-nighter studying for a test or too many looming deadlines had me pulling out my hair, I wouldn’t end up with just some trendy coffee addiction. I’d end up in a mini-coma, face down in the middle of the studio or on the floor of the community showers.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, The Girl In Between

“Dani’s mild eating disorder was definitely the most annoying thing about her. One Christmas break I’d gained ten pounds and went up two cup-sizes—a post episode binge that finally made me look normal, like a woman. I would have killed to hold onto that version of me and all Dani did was count calories and complain about her non-existent cellulite. She was lucky. Most people were, they just couldn’t see it.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, The Girl In Between

“My lip trembled, my throat raw, and I started to cry. But not because I didn’t look perfect. But because I looked healthy and because I wasn’t sure how long I’d stay that way.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, The Girl In Between