Erica Lynn > Erica's Quotes

“I know what the fuck I want, and I don't give a shit what anyone else thinks about it.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“For as long as I can remember, Halloween fascinated me. The creatures and creepy faces. The jump scares and impending dread that something horrific is going to happen. I’ve had an unhealthy obsession with it all.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“I just get off on being scared. I think it’s a step up from being a psycho, but the therapist disagreed.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there’s nothing you can do that will scare them away. They will be yours forever because they already love all the fucked up bits and pieces of you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Humans don’t need to decorate themselves in gory make-up and fake blood to be scary. It’s the insides of us—the darkness that lurks beneath the surface—that’s what’s truly fucking terrifying.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“You can throw glitter on a snake, but the bitch still bites.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.”
― Loreth Anne White, Beneath Devil's Bridge

“Monsters are made, not born.”
― Nicole Trope, The Family Across the Street

“I like Poe. There’s something refreshing about a man who’s so unabashedly morose.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“The power of it—of us—is like nothing I’ve imagined. I’m both powerful and powerless, conqueror and conquered. Whole in your arms in a way I never thought possible and, at the same time, utterly shattered as we hurtle headlong over the precipice together. And in that moment, there can be no going back. I’m yours forever. Irrevocably. Indelibly.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“But I don’t think fear is our enemy. Usually it just wants to protect us from getting hurt. Once we see that, we realize that fear is a friend, looking out for us. And that doesn’t mean we have to listen to it all the time, but we also don’t have to avoid it! Then everything relaxes a little bit.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is a Vegan Terrorist: 6 Deadly Social Media Influencers

“Time passes by you like a bullet,” he says, “and fear gives you the excuses you’re craving to not do the things you know you should. Don’t doubt yourself, don’t second-guess, don’t let fear hold you back, don’t be lazy, and don’t base your decisions on how happy it will make others. Just go for it, okay?”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“Life asked Death, Why do people hate me and love you? Death responded with, Because you’re a beautiful lie and I’m a painful truth.”
― L.R. Jones, You Look Beautiful Tonight

“Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind . . . —Plato”
― L.R. Jones, You Look Beautiful Tonight

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― L.R. Jones, You Look Beautiful Tonight

“He was beautiful in a dark way—in a way that promised heartbreak.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Darkness

“Through the thorns, to the stars.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“There are secrets that must be held close, and most of these have to do with the wounding of the human heart, for sorrow spoken aloud is sorrow lived through twice.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“What is a daughter but good fortune, as complicated as she might be.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Tell a witch to go, and she’ll plant her feet on the ground and stay exactly where she is. Instead of doing as she’s told, she’ll take a knife to her arm and let her blood drip onto the ground, and in that way she will claim the earth for herself and for her daughters and for all the daughters who follow her. It is the future she’s claiming, the right to be a woman who can do as she pleases.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another’s heart in your hand.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“What was a witch if not a woman with wisdom and talent?”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Life was like a book, Jet thought, but one you would never finish. You would never know how people would wind up; the good often suffered and the wicked prospered and there was no explanation for the way in which fate was meted out as there was in novels.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Words were everything, stories were more powerful than any weapon, books changed lives.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“What you wind up regretting aren’t the things you do, it’s what you don’t do that you will never forgive yourself for.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“You go through life doing all the things everyone else wants you to do, and you’ll wake up one day realizing your life’s passed you by and you’ve got a list of stuff you’ve never gotten to.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

“When you want something bad enough, you need to pay the consequence.”
― Heather Levy, Hurt for Me

“He was like curling up on the couch with a blanket and stepping into my favorite book.”
― Lucinda Berry, Saving Noah

“Why dull life with the bleary lines that the adult world draws for us? I want to be childish. I want to run free with all the dark things in the night.”
― K.M. Moronova, The Fabric of Our Souls