My Darrling Quotes

“When you give your heart away, you usually get it back in pieces, fragments. And often, a great deal of time passes before you realize that every piece wasn’t returned to you—and probably never will be. You crave nothing more than to get those small—but vital—fragments back; to return to the unbroken, undamaged version of yourself. But what's been broken cannot be unbroken, and so all you can do is learn to live with the void of the missing pieces, to somehow find beauty in the wreckage.
And so I did.
Sophie Lenon”
― Krystal McLean, My Darrling

“. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.”
― Krystal McLean, My Darrling

“You cannot find what refuses to be found, but it will be entertaining to watch you try”
― Krystal McLean, My Darrling

“Sometimes the things we want the most are bad for us—really bad for us—but sometimes what’s bad for us sets us free.”
― Krystal McLean, My Darrling

“I felt sick with guilt when I looked at them and thought that Isaac Darrling was easily the most handsome boy I had ever seen in my life. Cold-blooded murderers couldn’t be beautiful. But Isaac was.”
― Krystal McLean, My Darrling

“I could never seem to feel close enough to him. I wanted to crawl inside of his body, become a stowaway to his soul.”
― Krystal McLean, My Darrling

“I’m a killer. I get pleasure out of controlling whether someone lives or dies, from feeling the life dwindle out of human beings. When I get the itch, I stalk and murder the first person I find interesting enough.”
― Krystal McLean, My Darrling

“Yes, I’ve always loved The Cure.”
― Krystal McLean, My Darrling