Nocte Quotes

“I’m doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I’m drowning more and more each day.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“Serva me, servabo te. Save me and I will save you.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“Words can harm people every bit as much as a weapon.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“I would plunge to the bottom of the ocean for you.  I’d comb it for shells and make you a necklace and then hang myself with it.  Because if you aren’t here, I don’t want to be either.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“Insomniacs know that there is something about the night. A darkness, an energy, a mystery that shrouds things. It hides things at the same time as it illuminates them. It is this thing that allows us to examine our thoughts in a way that we can't during the day. It is this thing that brings truth and clarity.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“I wrote this story the way it needed to be written.  I couldn’t sugarcoat it.  I couldn’t water it down.  It is this way because the story demands it.    I’m not sorry.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“because sometimes that’s how life is.  A puzzle made up of a million pieces, and when one piece doesn’t exactly fit, it throws the rest of them off.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“There is nothing quite so terrifying as the descension of the human mind into insanity.”
― courtney cole, Nocte

“By night, I am free.
No one hears my monsters but me.
My freedom is fragile, though,
Because every morning,
Over and over,
The night is broken by the sun.
It’s a good way to die.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“The only thing worse than drowning in grief is sharing a lifeboat with other drowning people.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“But just because we can’t see something doesn’t mean it’s not there.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“The only thing worse than drowning in grief is sharing a lifeboat with other drowning people.  Besides, if anyone needs a grief group, it’s him.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“As we walk, I know without looking where Dare is. It’s like I’m a planet and he’s my axis… or my sun.  I feel his heat, I feel his presence, and I ache to lean into it, to fold into him, to absorb his strength.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“Good night, sweet Finn. Good night, good night.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“And we can’t begin something beautiful when there is still so much ugliness around us.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“My other half-- my twin brother, my Finn-- is crazy. I love him. More than life, more than anything.  And even though I’m terrified he’ll suck me down with him, no one can save him but me.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“What is it about that one motion, that one tiny thing, that always sticks in my head?  It’s so stupid. Such a silly thing to focus on.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“fake it ‘til you make it. If you don’t feel good, pretend you do because eventually you will. It hasn’t worked yet, but I’m still holding out hope.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“Death is big,” Dare acknowledges. “But there are things bigger than that.  If there’s not, then this is all for nothing.  Life is worth nothing. Putting yourself out there, and taking chances and all that.  All of that stuff is bollocks if it can just disappear in the end.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“He kisses me with abandon, like he’s not afraid of the consequences, like it’s only him and me, and there’s nothing else around us.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“We all have little tricks we play on our minds to make life bearable.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“It’s like I’m a planet and he’s my axis… or my sun.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“dying is like a ship that sails away for another destination.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“What would you shave off for me if I died?” I would plunge to the bottom of the ocean for you. I’d comb it for shells and make you a necklace and then hang myself with it. Because if you aren’t here, I don’t want to be either.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“Because traditions are soothing when everything else goes to hell.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“He deserves to be a focus.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“kismet always prevails and I’m someone he might like to know.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“The irony is lost on you.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“DD and CP are inscribed inside a heart. Corny and sweet. I trace the letters with my finger. “What a coincidence,” I murmur, for some reason aching on the inside, aching to be that CP and for Dare to be that DD.”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte

“Maybe because your mom just died in a car crash?”
― Courtney Cole, Nocte