Mayfly Requiem Quotes

“Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“Our lives were a complex tapestry, and our woven strands were only meant to intersect at a small number of points in the time-conceived whole. An embroidered starburst, a missed warp, a complicated notion on the loom of time. We were always together, but meant to live our majorities apart, two golden threads wandering through a haunted textile life.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“Misunderstood twins run away from weddings. Malevolent twins shoot the groom.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“Innocence has no place alongside immortality.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“We reinvent our childhoods in deep colors, but are forced to face reality the moment we open our eyes.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“Only the dead remember the truth.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“What do you live for when everyone and everything you love is gone? Do you keep going, keep stumbling through the dark, or do you find something new to cherish? Maybe neither. Maybe you walk silently and ignore the blows time takes on your heart.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem