Beneath the Indigo Sky Quotes

“Twice in my life, I’ve known what it’s like to lose someone I love, to know what it’s like to lose time I thought I had, to leave words left unsaid. If you’ll have me, I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“I’m falling over the edge of a cliff, but he’s holding me tightly, and I’m safe, and I’m loved, and he is ecstasy. He is everything I didn’t know I ever wanted.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“He pulls me close, and he’s holding me, and in a single instant, everything has changed. The whole world has transformed. He’s confused and afraid, but there is love. There is so much love, and it’s joy and passion and magenta and gold, and it’s so much more intense and all-encompassing than I’d ever imagined it could be.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“Over the past few days, I've found something with Ken and Namid that I thought I'd lost forever. A family. Family.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“I don’t know what I believe in, Namid. I don’t know if I believe in a god or aliens or faeries or science, but I know that I’m not so closed minded as to question what someone tells me is their truth. There are so many things in this universe that we don’t understand, and not understanding something doesn’t make it scary or wrong.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“Today, he feels the same. I’m not the same. I am in love with him. I am stupidly, hopelessly, completely in love with him.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“The deep blue of Namid’s eyes seems to shimmer like sunlight bouncing off deep water in the bright warehouse lights, and with no warning whatsoever, I suddenly realize that I want to get lost in them for the rest of my life.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“want to take every moment, every smile, every twist in my chest and wrap them up like the delicate and precious things they are and put them away somewhere hidden and safe so that one day, when I’m alone once again, I can take them out and remember the way it felt to fall in love.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“I’m not in love with him, but I think I could be one day, and I want to know what it’s like to fall in love, even if that love isn’t returned.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“I nod once, and a broad smile takes over his face. I’ve never seen a smile like his before. It’s blinding. It’s so much like staring directly into the sun that when it falls from his face slightly as he begins speaking again, I’m left with the residual memory of it branded into my retinas, like the pale-green spot you burn into your eyes when you look at an eclipse without glasses in the way everyone does even though you’re not supposed to.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“I know, son, but sometimes I say that to protect you, not other people. The way you are, it’s a gift, but I know it takes a toll on you to be around so much grief all the time. I know you can’t help feeling what those around you feel, and I don’t want you to have to go through life living with others’ anger and pain and unhappiness. You deserve better than that. You deserve happiness, Namid.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“Just once, I’d like to feel the kind of deep, passionate, unbreakable love that I read about. I imagine it must be bright and vibrant and overwhelming and achingly beautiful.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“The people who say grief is just love with nowhere to go are full of shit. Grief is shit. Grief is an endless, heart-wrenching, soul-crushing struggle to remember to breathe.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“I don’t know how to explain what it’s like to lose half of your soul. I don’t think anyone can. That’s what it feels like I’ve lost. Half of my soul.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“I feel things in a way others don’t. I feel them with my heart and my soul. They set my nerves on fire and rearrange my cells and spread across my skin until they consume me. I’m just different.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“I’m different from everyone I’ve ever met, even though I don’t really know who I am.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“I’m different than the people who were born and raised here though. Not like, “Oh, that guy has a few face piercings” different or “Yikes, he eats cereal with chocolate milk” different. For the record, I don’t have any facial piercings, and I could never be the kind of monster that eats cereal with chocolate milk. I don’t have an unusual accent. I don’t dress in flashy, bold floral prints that stand out from the tan and green puffer coats and worn, black Henleys everyone else wears in this place. I don’t have pink hair or three eyes or seven arms. I’m different in other ways.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“One soul that speaks to another can come in any shape or size or form. They can be a sibling, a friend, a lover, even a pet. When you find a soul that fits yours, it doesn’t matter who they are or even what they are.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky

“Kissing has never felt like this. Touching has never felt like this. I could kiss him for hours and days and years, and it would never be enough.”
― Rayne Hawthorne, Beneath the Indigo Sky