Breaking the Dark Quotes

“Perfect is not defined by people who make money out of your insecurities, nor is it defined by a male gaze or the opinions of those who wish to demean you. Perfect is what you are when you are listening only to the beat of your own heart, the sound of your own feet on the road ahead of you, the one pure voice that exists inside you telling you that you are fine, just the way you are.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“It’s her as if the last couple of years of her life had never happened, if that man hadn’t done what he’d done to her. It’s her without all the self-medicating and self-loathing. It’s the her she used to be.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“Perfection isn’t a goal. Perfection is a scam. You were perfect then and you’re perfect now. We all are. Every single one of us. Trust me.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“You’re gorgeous. You’re clever. You’re cool. You’re loving. You’re scary. You are so, so strong. What those people did to you, it doesn’t make you weaker, it makes you stronger. You just need to believe that. And you need to open your heart to yourself. Break through the dark. Find the light. Do you see?”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“Jessica breathes in hard, holding back the urge to really show him patronizing, acutely aware of Gavin’s slumped shoulders, his mop, his bucket, his scruffy tracksuit, his tiny, punctured ego deflating on the sidewalk behind her as she walks away from him.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“She lives on the edges of everything, at the sharp pointy corner of existence between normality and extraordinariness where she is neither one thing nor, truly, the other. She can do extraordinary things, but she doesn’t like doing them. But she can’t be normal either, she’s too broken, too other.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“The blood is the important thing. Blood contains everything, every atom of who you are: Your mother, your father, a million mothers and fathers before them. It contains your fear, your passion, your weaknesses, your strengths. It contains your future and your past. It is the most powerful essence in the world.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“Her whole life has been a slow-motion multiple pileup. She lives on the edges of everything, at the sharp pointy corner of existence between normality and extraordinariness where she is neither one thing nor, truly, the other. She can do extraordinary things, but she doesn't like doing them. But she can't be normal either, she's too broken, too other.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“Hey, I know I have superpowers, but I'm not sure they extend to ending poverty, racism, war, and disease.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“She has been the same for so long now. She has become stagnant. Dull. She has not been evolving, and she needs her life to move along again, but she fears it too, the change. She fears it so badly she can taste it.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“Blood contains everything, every atom of who you are: Your mother, your father, a million mothers and fathers before them. It contains your fear, your passion, your weaknesses, your strengths. It contains your future and your past. It is the most powerful essence in the world.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“She has left behind most of her close friends from her years as a—admittedly below par—super hero. They exist on another plane now, far above her, with their costumes and their glamour and their mystique. She is a scruffy second cousin in comparison, not thought of nor remembered from day to day.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark