Darque Dreamer > Darque 's Quotes

“Pero, tú no eres fácil.”
You sure ain’t an easy one.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“I am the cosmos and energy and matter of the universe held perfectly together with skin and bone.”
― Rachel Griffin, Wild Is the Witch

“You could rattle the stars,' she whispered. 'You could do anything, if only you dared.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“You were not made to be meek or wanting. If you embraced who you are, imagine the power you might wield. Imagine the things you could do.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“We spend our time striving and straining to be something that we’re not. Let those desires go. Honor who you are.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“...the most beautiful things are wild.”
― Rachel Griffin, Bring Me Your Midnight

“After all she'd overcome, boiling her choices down to Fate made her success feel unearned. Like he somehow had a hand in all of her hardest decisions and her biggest triumphs.”
― Adalyn Grace, Foxglove

“I know how society teaches us to be soft and dull and compliant, but you will not be any of those things, do you understand? Do not change the parts of yourself that you like to make others comfortable. Do not try to mold yourself to fit the standards someone else has set for us.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“We can't let the actions of a few hate-filled cowards change us. If we hide who we are to make others comfortable, we lose everything we're fighting for anyway.”
― Kate Pearsall, Bittersweet in the Hollow

“She didn’t care to be a sunflower, unfurling her petals in the daylight for all to see. She would rather be an adorable little mushroom, thriving in the dark crevices where few ventured to look.”
― Adalyn Grace, Foxglove

“...there was an indescribable charm to having one's hair tousled by the wind and every sound dampened by the rush of waves and the wind in her ears.”
― Adalyn Grace, Foxglove

“Normal' is a bedtime story-a fable-that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what's happening around them is not 'normal' at all.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Magic is desire made real.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Maybe it's innate in some of us to be drawn to the unknown, to both fear and desire it in equal parts.”
― Kate Pearsall, Bittersweet in the Hollow

“But firecrackers, I learned, were not simply bright and lively. They were unpredictable, and they could startle and frighten you, too.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Mama is always doing stuff like that: fixing, mending, making the broken more beautiful than it had ever been before.”
― Kate Pearsall, Bittersweet in the Hollow

“Love is worth fighting for. And if not for the bitter, we'd miss the magic of the sweet.”
― Kate Pearsall, Bittersweet in the Hollow

“The mistakes I made in the past do not make me weak; instead, I’ll use them to become stronger. I'm done being afraid of my own power.”
― Adalyn Grace, All the Stars and Teeth

“But I don’t mind the rain. I never have.”
― Rachel Griffin, Wild Is the Witch

“I like to breathe the salty air and feel the rocks under my feet, listen as the waves roll over the shore over and over again.”
― Rachel Griffin, Bring Me Your Midnight

“You should never feel like you have to make excuses or apologize for who you are.”
― Rachel Griffin, The Nature of Witches

“She reminded him of an ocean - beautiful, with enough salt to kill a man. He suspected it would take a knight or a hero of legend to impress one such as her.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“I grew up thinking monsters could be slain."
"Ah," he said. "And I grew up thinking people were the monsters.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“Monsters were unrestrained, unbound, and beautiful in their destruction. They could be slain but they would never be truly defeated.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“And perhaps, even back then, Ryn thought that if she could love the monsters - then she could love those monstrous parts of herself.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“People think pain makes me weak -- or worse, strong. If I have to endure one more person telling me that I'm 'so strong' simply for living...”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“And I think about all the things we could be
if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Burn it! Burn it. This is where the poems are,” I say, thumping a fist against my chest. “Will you burn me? Will you burn me, too?”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“When your body takes up more room than your voice, you are always the target of well-aimed rumors.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X