Katie > Katie's Quotes

“It feels like… feels like I’m drowning. I’m trying so hard to grab for something, so that my head can break the surface of the water, and I can breathe, but there’s water all around me and I’m too deep in. There’s no way out of this.”
― Clara Hartley, Bane of Dragons

“Losing everything again. Made me realize that it wasn’t that I couldn’t make myself good enough, it’s that the people around me weren’t, and now that I have you guys, I can be all right.”
― Clara Hartley, Bane of Dragons

“I have to love myself by finding people who love me for me, and not people who want to spend time with me because of an image of myself I created.”
― Clara Hartley, Bane of Dragons

“Love is the hook that keeps us suspended above the tumultuous waters of despair. It anchors us in the storm of devastation that is constantly sweeping across this district. Love is the only weapon we have against the monsters that lurk in the darkness of Midnight.”
― Debbie Cassidy, Secrets of Midnight

“Even if that’s what you think, you can’t soft-pedal it with I’m concerned for you? or You seem a little fragile?”
― Donna Augustine, A Step into the Dark

“I’d die here if need be. That was the craziest part of knowing you were dying. It trimmed off all the should-haves and cut you right down to your essence. It was a gift of freedom, cursed with a lack of time. It made you think back to everything you’d done, every decision, every word, and see it in that harsh light. Some actions shone and some cast a dark shadow on your timeline.”
― Donna Augustine, Wyrd Blood

“Humans, and tribers too, only use history as a reminder of an unfortunate past when they can blame someone else for the atrocities that went on. When they are responsible, it’s easier to pretend it never happened.”
― Helen Harper, New Order

“Anna. Once they’re in your life, you just adapt to their creepy ways and start to find the weird charm in them.”
― Kristy Cunning, Gypsy Freak

“Sick and searching is the man who cries for blood on the backs of the fallen he never really knew. He’s a soul in need of bloodshed, and soulless are those who follow with righteous damnation on their tongues.”
― Kristy Cunning, Gypsy Freak

“All work and no play makes Jack a very dull boy.’ ‘All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy,”
― Helen Harper, Slouch Witch

“If you’re trying to make the point that I’m childish, thank you very much. The only reason that most adults don’t do things like this is because they’re too concerned about what others think. Or they’re so worried about their problems they can’t think about anything but themselves. Or they no longer see the wonder and joy in sliding across a floor or down a banister. I think that’s sad, not immature.”
― Helen Harper, Slouch Witch

“I had no illusions about where my supermarket meat came from but that didn’t mean that I wanted it in anything other than a neatly packaged polystyrene packet with cooking instructions included. I was most definitely not in the business of slaughter. Too messy, for one thing.”
― Helen Harper, Star Witch

“I’ve never quite understood people who aren’t good patients. I am an excellent patient. You want to bring me hot lemon with honey? Thank you very much. Mop my brow? Please, go ahead. Spoon-feed me? Well, if you insist.”
― Helen Harper, Spirit Witch

“Life is full of impossible choices, you know that. We do the best we can with the information we have at the time. There’s hardly ever a right way and a wrong way, there’s just your way. I take the lift and you take the stairs but we still meet together at the top,”
― Helen Harper, Spirit Witch

“Am I as pathetic as I sound?” I demanded. “The truth will hurt.”
― Samantha Garman, Queen of Klutz

“Life sucks sometimes, but the detours make it interesting, don’t you think?”
― Samantha Garman, Queen of Klutz

“you don’t just get over the sudden loss of a parent like you sometimes see in books or movies. In real life you can’t gloss over those emotions, and they stick with you forever. Time doesn’t heal all wounds, you only get used to dealing with them.”
― Cece Rose, White Charms and Dark Secrets

“This hatred of one another has nothing to do with actual differences. It’s a basic psychological phenomenon of self-identification; the ‘us versus them’ theory. We are better able to quantify to ourselves who we are by identifying who we’re not.”
― Kaydence Snow, Variant Lost

“Some people just find denial more attractive than adjusting their beliefs to new information.”
― J.L. Bryan, Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper

“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”
― Laura Thalassa, A Strange Hymn

“I was lonely—painfully, achingly lonely, the kind of loneliness that comes from feeling like your life is passing you by and there’s no one there to witness it.”
― Laura Thalassa, A Strange Hymn