Gray After Dark Quotes

“Opening up your heart is messy—and risky. But keeping your heart spotless is risky too,”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“I would have cried tears of joy to trade the past two days for a chance to face off with a bear instead of these two monsters. ”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“I gritted my teeth. I’d been their pet for months, but they didn’t know a thing about me.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“The chicken bobbed its head, clearly wondering what was going on but not trying to get away. It trusted us.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“I’d rather eat spiders than go anywhere near Freddy.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“I always thought those eyes looked like emeralds against the snow, set next to his pale, wind-burned cheeks.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“Hope was one thing. Delusion was another.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“Ahead, forest. Behind, hell.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“It was like she kept her emotions in a little lockbox where they couldn’t pop out and surprise her—ever.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“I’ll be gentle,” she promised. Then she tilted her head to the side. “Long as you promise to stay away from Freddy.” I tried not to show my disgust. I’d rather eat spiders than go anywhere near Freddy. “Absolutely. I belong … to Hamish.”  “Good,” she said, apparently satisfied.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“weakened”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“Thank you.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“The idea of returning to the home I’d shared with Mom, to rooms echoing with memories of her, felt impossible. Every corner, every piece of art, every fiber of carpet would scream her absence. Her smell would be everywhere.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“I did believe in an afterlife, though. The idea of ghosts had spooked me until Miley’s mom died. Then the idea of dead spirits sort of comforted me. ”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“No footsteps. No voices.  What was taking so long?”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“Hamish’s head. Had to be. He was trying to get eyes on me. Do that one more time.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“put the conversation out of my mind and focused on the road. Time to catch up on episodes of My Favorite Murder. Mom didn’t like the podcast. There was too much banter and too much blood. But it didn’t scare me. ”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“All cats look gray after dark.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“In Rayna’s hand was an enormous can of bear spray. Wes.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“I learned that it didn’t actually matter whether you kept your heart open or locked. Twisted metal and broken glass sliced through it either way. So did loss. ”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“To my surprise, her whispered voice was firm and clear. “I’ll meet you at the camp. With our boys.”  My heart constricted, and I nodded. Our boys.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“My name’s not Mary. It’s Rayna,” she said sharply, even though her voice wobbled. That made me stop.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“Four years ago, a staffer at Hidden Springs had gone missing. Killed by a bear, they thought. While on a run in the woods.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“One of the 500,000 hikers, campers, and hunters who went missing in the forest every year,”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“The fact that I’d never see that look again—and the fact that it was my fault—was an ache I knew would never go away.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“Almost there. Almost. When the cracked mud of what had once been a snow-fed stream appeared on the ground through a stand of trees, I crouched and got ready to sprint. And that’s when I saw it.  A scrap of fabric tied to the lowest branch of a pine.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“My coworker,” I clarified. “In the kitchen. He’s like, twenty. And he can’t stop talking about bears. He’s Idaho Dwight Schrute.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“It didn’t make sense, but it didn’t have to make sense to be real.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“Opening up your heart is messy—and risky. But keeping your heart spotless is risky too,” Mom insisted, and I committed the words to heart, even if I wasn’t sure I believed them. Mom had a poet’s soul.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“In biathlon, the hunt is about the chase. Tracking your rival, aiming for the target. That’s how we’re going to find Miley.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark