Four of a Kind Quotes

“What’s the point in fretting? Worry never made the sun rise any faster.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“For a moment, I’m caught in that fragile space between sleep and wakefulness, where the past is uncertain and the present has yet to take shape.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“But I’ve learned hope is a traitor. The shouts of doubt always come back louder, their return as certain as the tides. Disillusionment is a wave that never misses its mark.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“My mind is a firing squad, trained to obliterate every glimmer of hope.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“The sky is scarred by a thousand clouds, yet no one calls it ugly. No one looks at the jagged streaks of lightning and recoils. They marvel. They watch in awe, breathless, as if destruction itself were beautiful when it belonged to nature.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“He takes the leap not because he’s oblivious to death, but because he knows some things are worth dying for.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“People don’t appreciate how closely beauty and pain are related.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“The world has always been unsettled by things that don’t match—beauty and ugliness side by side, the grotesque tangled with the pure.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“Eyes do not merely capture light—they betray. They reveal. They are both windows and walls, disclosing too much or too little, depending on how well one has learned to guard oneself.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“A smile can be as much a deception as a revelation. A carefully plotted lie or a stunning unveiling of truth.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“There are two kinds of mornings that stand out in my life. The ones where I wake with a nameless dread, and the ones where I wake with a deep sense of joy.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“How can a man dying of thirst ignore the glass of water flaunted right in front of him?”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“There’s a quiet beauty in washing up, in its simple rhythm, in the way the small, ordinary task becomes something more—an indulgence in sensation, a taste of luxury in a life where luxuries are few.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“His silence wasn’t empty—it hummed with something unspoken, something that brushed against my soul like a soft current, altering the very rhythm of my thoughts.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“Once you know the name of something, you understand it better. It no longer frightens you.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“Every instinct I once relied on for survival now feels misplaced. Cumbersome. Like an old key that no longer fits the lock.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“When the eye meets what is not beautiful—when it stumbles upon the grotesque—it’s not just a fleeting inconvenience. It’s a violation. A crack in the order of things. A mockery of the universe’s relentless attempts to weave harmony into chaos.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“Contrary to popular belief, I don’t hate people. I just hate the way they never let me forget.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“A sailor hears a mermaid’s song and dives into the sea. The beauty of the song becomes the weapon that kills him. The longing in his heart—the traitor that lures him to death. He surrenders to it, hoping to quench his thirst, only to find himself gasping for air—life slowly, painfully sucked out of his lungs.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“The face. The part of us meant to engage with the world. To perceive it. To reflect and reveal. Our greatest gift. Our greatest curse.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“They say people wear their hearts on their sleeve. I say most people wear their hearts on their faces. But it takes a connoisseur to see it. I am that connoisseur.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“Hers is the face of someone who looks without seeing, sees without noticing—too weary, too wrapped in her own pain to take in a world that exists beyond the borders of her mind.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“The contrast between the glorious sight in front of me and the deep, jagged scars on his face is so stark, so jarring, that for a moment, my mind struggles to reconcile the two. The world has just shown me something pure, beautiful, perfect—and now, here is the opposite. Burned. Ruined. Imperfect.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“Paralysing, all-consuming panic. I know it well. An enemy so old it’s become a friend.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“Tears are good. They wash you clean, clear the cobwebs from your soul. Never be afraid to let them fall.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind