Dustlight Quotes

“We can find scraps of magic anywhere we look, tiny threads and fabric patches and buttons without matches. Allow a circle of space for that quiet magic to find you. That is your center, your home. Return to it when you need it. Find it again, name it your hearth, and wherever you are you’ll be home.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight

“Our descendants deserve libraries, not barracks. They deserve to inherit a world that values both their waking lives and their dreams.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight

“Sometimes trying isn’t enough. But we have to try, or we become indistinguishable from the beast we’re fighting.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight

“The past is nowhere to abandon your present.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight

“In dreams we become timeless. We can stretch one breath to the infinite, nestle deep into that single heartbeat, and create something wondrously impossible. We can shape our worlds and live our lives to their fullest. As many lives as we want, and in any direction. But we don’t know at what point that breath, that heartbeat, will reclaim us and transform everything we built into forgotten dust. Not even a full memory, only a ghost of a dream, replaced by the incessant light demanding that our bodies adhere to its own cruel schedule.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight

“I think I dreamed of you once. You were the sunset glinting off the calm ocean waves and the moon reflecting in double, like silver eyes within the mirrored heart of a star-dusted sky. You were the warm salted breeze whispering sweet words between each kiss landed beneath my ear and each caress of the surf upon my skin. I woke from the dream to find you’d followed me into my waking world.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight

“We can’t go back to what we were. We can only step bravely forward and build a future we’re proud to gift to our children.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight