Darkness & Shadows Quotes

“So fragile. Our lives are so ridiculously fragile. We move about in this world feeling as though we’re invincible, hard as nails, not knowing just how vulnerable we really are. Like walking, breathing eggshells.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Darkness & Shadows

“Not alone. Not in this storm. Not in any. Not anymore.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Darkness & Shadows

“Life’s hardest experiences were in fact nothing more than tough lessons, the meaning never revealed until you got to the other side.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Darkness & Shadows

“Nothing new ever does. You’re”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Darkness & Shadows

“On his way out, he passed a girl thumbing through a magazine in the waiting area. She glanced at him, her face marred by a scar running diagonally from her left temple to her right cheek. He drew his attention away briskly, trying not to appear put-off. But he wondered how it got there and, even more, what it was like to have to wear the pain on the outside instead of within; whether one was worse than the other.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Darkness & Shadows

“Agitation forced him off the couch, took him to the window where he stared sightlessly out at the San Diego skyline.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Darkness & Shadows

“don’t let Camilla’s legacy be a life unfulfilled, a life without the one thing you want most, to love and to be loved. Don’t give her that power. She doesn’t deserve it. Neither does anyone else.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Darkness & Shadows

“When I catch up to her, I throw my arms over her shoulders, press my body against hers and my lips against the back of her neck. I close my eyes and breathe in her scent, then I spin her around for a deep, passionate kiss. She reciprocates with a helpless moan, locking her hands behind my neck, pulling my mouth harder against hers. I can taste her, smell her, feel her—I can’t get enough of her. I want to stay here forever, wrapped up with her: connected to her. I realize this is how it is meant to be. How we are meant to be.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Darkness & Shadows

“But I saw it. That was the problem—he couldn’t stop seeing it. Horrific, unthinkable images of the only woman he’d ever loved, reduced to a burnt corpse, tendrils of resinous smoke curling through her dark, fleshless ribcage. Her once-beautiful, flawless face transformed into a frightening messenger of tragedy: just a scorched and eyeless skull, all jaws and teeth. The tears. The pain. Gone in an instant. Killed by her worst fear.”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, Darkness & Shadows