Dark Whispers Quotes

“I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“Hearts grow hard and weary. Pain spreads, and joy diminishes. Those who hated you hate you still, but those who loved you, or would have loved you, or wanted to love you but never had the chance, are being scraped hollow by a loss they don't understand. Come home. Please come home. We are withering without you.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“That sense of loss grew within the humans who had been left behind, left to live without unicorns. Even the ones who had never seen a unicorn, never heard of a unicorn, felt the passing of something sweet and wonderful. It was as if the air had surrendered a bit of its spice, the water a bit of its sparkle, the night a bit of its mystery.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“Travel safe, travel well. May those who have gone before be always with you.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“Now that she had lived in two worlds, would she ever again be completely at home in either of them? Or would part of her always long for the other, no matter where she was?”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“It is easy enough to reject a story because you do not like what it says, but wiser to examine it first, to see what can be learned from it.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“For what kind of world is it that has no unicorns?”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“But it's often the case that our most intimate enemies are rooted in our own darkness.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“The shadow of the past is longer than any of us can imagine,’ said Alma Leonetti softly. 'You cannot unweave the tapestry of time, Moonheart. Take any event, great or small, and you can trace the threads of cause back across century after century, threads that are woven from the smallest of happenings. In the same way, things that we do today, any one of them, may have implications and consequences a thousand years from now that we cannot yet begin to imagine.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“Each of us is a miracle. Alas, it is a fact we too often forget.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“(T)he downfall of the wise and the mighty comes not from being strong or wise, but from thinking you are stronger and wiser than you truly are, than any being can truly be.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“There would not be much left if every useful thing that could be turned to bad ends were destroyed.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

“What we do not wish to remember we sometimes hide. That which we hide long enough is sometimes forgotten altogether, even if it never forgets itself.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers