Unity Quotes

“It’s funny, isn’t it?” she asked, stepping forward and pushing him back. Her voice rang loud and clear for the chained Gifteds around her. “Once you turn us into Unfortunates, you no longer have any power over us.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I could kill you right now.”
“What would that change?” he asked. “Both of us dead?”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“Tomorrow, we may fray like ribbon or scatter like stars, but we are capable of returning to the knot, to the sky, to each other. We are capable.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“You fulfilled your promise to me. Go fulfill your promise to her.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I imagined we would chip away at each other for forever, slowly perfecting into a united statue.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I wanted to tell her that I would be safe, careful. I wanted to promise. But I couldn’t. I was separating us again. Maybe even forever. I wished the Divine created a Gift that stretched milliseconds into minutes. I wished He created me with such a Gift breathing life into my soul. He created a bright Unfortunate instead, and that was enough for what needed to happen.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I’ve known for a long time; my mind and thoughts and actions all steered toward her. A love that only strengthened with each passing heartbeat. A love not new but everlasting, rooted in friendship and trust and faith.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I imagined the world stopping—taking a moment to breathe and listen.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“The sun shone through the stained glass windows and illuminated him in all the colors of the world. All the Gifts he has stolen for himself.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“Look how pathetic you are—all alone.”
Despite his appalling breath and disturbing taunt, my mind—free of his influence—drifted to the Flower Festival. Making a misshapen basket next to a pretty girl wearing a purple butterfly outfit when she said that no one truly does anything alone.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“You are free, and you bind yourself to what sets your heart on fire. You bind yourself to what matters.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“We would fiercely find our way back to each other.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“Are you okay?”
“We’re okay.”
“I’m asking if you’re okay.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“They spent so much time hating each other for their status. Arrogant heiress and arrogant street rat as Leo once emphasized. But they shared arrogance, knowing each other fully without fully knowing each other, and spent their time despising one another together, drawn to interact with pestering, name-calling, teasing.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“Tremors rippled through the cavern like a burrow dug up, but I was not waiting prey.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I wished I could separate him out. Make him two different people. One I could despise with my entire being and one I could support and comfort. If he wasn’t one person, I might have understood him better.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I really was just an ordinary girl doing what she thought was right and what others thought was ridiculous.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“How could they receive grace if all we give them is strife?”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“Why did we have to do terrible things to get what we needed? When all of this bloodshed and heartache and resentment could have been avoided if we received those needs in the first place?”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I thought...someone else would be here.”
“Is it okay that it’s me?”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“She was the color yellow. My sunlight casting away the clouds and the rain.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I never pretend to be anything other than an Unfortunate.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“They had used all of their Gifts getting us here. Still renewed, I would get them to our new home.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I heard her voice, echoing through my mind in all its calming beauty.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I was that servant girl again, so distant now that her return struck me with despondence and torn familiarity.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“My kingdom, you witness Divine judgment in Northbrook. Those spared reveal themselves allegiant to our cause. Those who oppose us are returned to their creator.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“We shared a history without ever crossing paths.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I think even people who came to Northbrook to purposely separate themselves from the world finally realized they were embracing it more fully than ever.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“A ruler of peace,” I repeated with vicious annoyance. “You were not ruling under peaceful times, and a peaceful ruler—" I strained to find the words as my temper heated—"a peaceful ruler does not mean you do nothing.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“Nora was at the center of the world, and I was not there with her. All of my strength, and she was still separated from me.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity