A Dark Lure Quotes

“Without fear, there cannot be true courage”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“sometimes people are broken and don’t know how to mend because they aren’t able to say what they need or deeply want. Sometimes you get to a point in life where you realize you’ve made a terrible mistake and you desperately need to fix it, but it’s so deep and bitterly ingrained you can’t start.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“Each life has a cycle. One makes one’s choices and bears one’s punishment”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“Words, unbidden, curled like smoke into her mind, his voice thick velvet over gravel. Intelligent, seductive, alluring. Dark . . .”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“words were like magic, like ancient runes, symbols, that, if you knew how to unlock and decode them, conjured stories—people and pictures in your mind.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“Myron fell silent, his mind seemingly drifting away on some sea of secret sorrow, buoyed by booze and painkillers.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“PTSD sucked. It was a dragon that lived inside her own head, shaking loose more and more nightmarish memories, each one prompting another like dominoes tumbling.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“The stars in the dark vault of sky were endless. Soft green and blue light with tinges of peach at the edges waved across it in silent curtains. The curtains of gods. “I think she’s watching us from up there.” Tears leaked silently down her face. And in that instant she was certain that from up there, everything must look like it had a plan. A reason. A pattern. She just couldn’t see it from down here.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“Sure it was an odd coincidence for Gage Burton to be in possession of a fly she’d designed and given to her abductor, and for that fly to be tucked in between the pages of a news story that referenced Sebastian. But coincidences happened.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“lagged”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“. . . It’s not a game until both sides know they’re playing . . .”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“Sometimes,” he said quietly, “I wonder if there is a greater plan, if things are just meant to be. If all my life I was supposed to circle back to Broken Bar, and meet you.” Her broken eyes met his. Her hand still rested on Ace. “That’s what I asked Melody Vanderbilt once. She was Gage’s wife, a journalist who used to come and sit with me in the hospital. I asked whether she thought we could pinpoint the exact moment our life first started on a collision course with another’s—”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“Emotion. Need. Desire for human contact. And it was killing her because it hurt. It hurt like all hell. And she couldn’t have it.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“She would do whatever it took in the Lord’s or the devil’s name to survive now.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“It started, as all dialogues do, when a path crosses that of another .”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“She tied him a fly, using a pattern she’d designed, one that had given her untold luck with those silvery fish, those fighting steelhead. She was anxious for his return.
“Does it have a name?” he said, when she gave it to him.
“The Predator.” She smiled. A little embarrassed.
His eyes turned dark, and her heart beat faster. His voice dipped low. “It’s a fine name.”
He regarded her for several heavy, silent beats. She felt an atavistic pull, the hairs on her arms rising toward him, as if in electrical attraction. He leaned closer and her mouth turned dry. And he told her about the wild blueberries. Down by the bend in the river.
She took the lure.
She went in search of the berries.
She never came home.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“mouths”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“nothing lasted forever, that they must use each moment, each day, as a rare gift. That they must never allow the cloak of hubris and self-indulgence to stop them from appreciating, nurturing, protecting those closest to them.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“but she saw now that to be free would mean fully exposing herself, stripping naked in a way that would trap her”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“She didn’t have the courage that she’d thought she had a moment ago. She felt humiliated and unable to strip herself fully naked, expose herself and her scars to this man.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“He took a deep, long swig and closed his eyes.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“Since after the accident. I heard. But sometimes people are broken and don’t know how to mend because they aren’t able to say what they need or deeply want. Sometimes you get to a point in life where you realize you’ve made a terrible mistake and you desperately need to fix it, but it’s so deep and bitterly ingrained you can’t start.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“gamos, meaning a marriage or conjoining of hunter and prey.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“of another”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“know it’s easier to throw up angry walls, kid. By God, do I know. Much easier to strike out at the world and cling to the bitterness. But it cost me. Instead of opening my heart and trying to build something stronger upon the foundations of a tragedy, I tightened up and cut off my own children, my own family. Look at me now.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“All things have their season,”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“Horrible, horrible things can happen to very good people.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“It's not a game until both sides know they're playing.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“Why does one person miraculously survive against all odds, while others perish when all they had to do was wait to be rescued?”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure