Goldfinch Quotes

“Remember, you are stronger than the dark, and you have the wings to fly.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“There is no growth without rot. There is no sun without the dark sky. And there is no me without her.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Perhaps it just takes sitting at the edge of your world to find a little bit of hope.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“I told her I’d be the villain for her, and I was. Now, I need to also be the hero she would want me to be.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Every day the sun rises, it rises for you,” he says quietly as he brushes a finger gently down my brow, over my cheek, before settling his hand against my own heart. “Every day I wake, I wake for you. And every time my heart beats, it beats with yours.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“How was your one day today, Goldfinch?” he asks, and I smile, because he asks me this every day.
My answer is always the same. “It was the best, because I’m with you.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Then, the bridge is no more. And neither… are we.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“My name is Auren Turley. And I am stronger than the dark.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“I’ll always find you,”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Because hope, however false, does something for a trodden soul. Sometimes false hope is all you have, so you cling to it for as long as you can.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“I’ve always known exactly who she is. Light and life. Love and warmth. A gleaming vibrancy that I never deserved but never would have given up. She is mine and I am hers, for all of eternity. In every life. But in this one, she has been taken from me. And it’s my fault.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“When my heart nearly burst with poison and killed me, I thought that was the end. I thought that was the worst thing that could ever happen. I was wrong. This—this is the worst. For the breeze to still flow and for steps to still tread, and for the world to just keep on going after she’s ended. For me to still live, while she’s dead in my arms. I don’t want it. I don’t want this life if I can’t share it with her.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Lyäri Nōhcra. No longer the golden one gone, but… The golden one who rules.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Their answering voices are solemn but resolute. “For Fourth.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Auren…” I choke out. “Your ribbons.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“My name is Auren Turley and I am the Lyäri Ulvêre," I call out. "I am not gone, and I do not bow.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“My heart didn’t work without you,”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“You want me to go fuck him up?”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Oh, Goldfinch. My love for you consumes every part of my soul. It’s in every word, every movement. With each morning that dawns and every night that falls. You are completely mine, and I am yours, and that is all I ever need in this life and all the others.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“She burns brighter than anything else ever could.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“I’d know that light anywhere, whether in the depths of darkness or in a sea of stars. Her brightness, her soul, sings a song I’d follow anywhere. I know because she’s my other half, and her aura is leading me back to her.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Are you going to start listening to me?” “Yes. Sometimes. When it seems like the right thing to do. And if it suits me.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“When she comes stomping out, she’s got an armful of clothes that she shoves into my chest. “I need a bag.” I glance down at the huge pile and start counting all the pieces. “This is too much shit, woman.” She gives me a look so chilling it might actually make my balls shrivel. I clear my throat. “I meant, I’ll make this shit fit.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Maybe sometimes, time doesn’t help. It just…stretches. Widens the gap between the loss and the after.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“They can’t touch us,” Dommik murmurs, gaze unwavering, touch calm and still. “Keep looking at me.” I nod, and then I let the terror exhale away. Let my mind go still. Because I am exactly where I need to be. Where I want to be. Willingness. “I’m ready.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Oh, Goldfinch,” he murmurs. “If ever there was a person for whom love was created, it was for you.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Beast, you crazy fucker, I told you to go back to Fourth!”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“There was a ripple in the ether. It made the stars turn to look.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“Though I know they grieve, it will never be the same for them as it is for me. Carrying her is the last gift I’ll ever get. The last chance I’ll ever have to feel her. I’m not ready to give that up. How can I?”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch

“The reality that I exist in a world where she does not.”
― Raven Kennedy, Goldfinch