Juniper Unraveling Quotes

“I’ve also come to realize that pain doesn’t strike at once, as one might think. It’s organic. From the moment you fall in love with someone, your pain begins.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“When the world is at its darkest, somehow love still carries the light.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“When the world is at its darkest, somehow love still carries the light. Love is strength and weakness. A crutch and a sword. It can leave a person hollow and heal their wounds. It’s a friend to the stars, with pain as its shadow. A dichotomy whose time is uncertain. But above all things, love is necessary.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“His shoulders sag in defeat, as if he’s about to hand over his soul to me. “Do you not have any idea what you mean to me, Wren?” “I thought I did. I was certain I could pull you from that dark place inside your head. But I’m not strong enough. You and I seem to be of the same thread. Infected with the same evil that damaged us.” “I knew exactly what I was doing last night. I didn’t do it for pleasure, or some morbid form of entertainment. I did it for you. Because he hurt you. And your pain is my pain.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“To the rest of the world, you were just a girl. A lonely girl from the other side of that wall. But to me, you’ve always been more than that. The air when I couldn’t breathe. My voice when I couldn’t speak. When I couldn’t feel anything anymore, I felt you. Goddamn, Wren, you were my heart, pumping life into a body that was mostly dead. You were everything to me. You are everything.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“I’m sick. And so is he. We’re the perfect twisted match, destined for pain like a sad tragedy.
The moth who fell in love with the flame.
He’s the reaper, and I’m his disciple.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“The deeper you fall in love, pain follows like a ghost, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Could take an entire lifetime, or just a couple of short months. Pain has no concept of time, and when it arrives, you’re never ready for it.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“Pain doesn't strike at once, as one might think. It's organic. From the moment you fall in love with someone, your pain begins. You just don't feel it yet, but it's there. The silence beneath your laugher. The shadows behind an embrace. Tranquility before the storm. The deeper you fall in love, the pain follows like a ghost, waiting for the perfect time to strike. Could take an entire lifetime, or just a couple short months. Pain has no concept of time, and when it arrives, you're never ready for it. But it's always been there, hiding behind a mask of denial, deceiving you into thinking there's such a thing as eternal happiness.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“I’m convinced the heart is a masochist. Some call it an organ of fire, but I have to believe mine has turned to ash, as many times as it’s been burned and broken throughout the years.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“I collect keys. House keys. Car keys. Doesn’t matter what kind. I like knowing they unlock something, somewhere in the world. I pretend they’re the keys to someone’s story—their hopes and dreams—and I’m now the keeper of it.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“I brought you something.” From his pocket, Papa pulls a string of multicolored beads, with four white in the center that spell ‘love.’ Slipping it over my wrist, he tugs his mouth into the slightest smile. “Found it in some rubble. Thought you might like it.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“Where survival is concerned, tears have no place. Stay focused, and stay alive.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“I also believed that love was nothing more than a precursor for pain.
After all, this world has no room for love. It’s harsh and violent and thrives from taking, but still we seek it out, because the will to live and love is the only universal thing that binds us as a species and ensures our viability—an ever-constant pulse that drives us, in spite of the pain and hate that seeks to destroy us along the way.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“I already lost you once, and come war, or the fires of hell, I’m not losing you twice.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“Safety is an illusion … survival is a reality”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“Thank you for reading my stories ❤️ Keri”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“You don’t let your enemies walk in this world unless you plan to face them twice.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“Falling in love means you have to be brave enough to accept the pain when it comes to stake its claim.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“From the moment you fall in love with someone, your pain begins.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“Civilization has always been divided into those who have everything and those who have nothing. Even when the world goes to shit.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“What’s to keep you from punching your fist into my chest and ripping out my heart?” He shakes his head and rubs his thumb across his palm. “Because it isn’t your heart, anymore, Wren. It’s mine. You’re my life. If you die, I die.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“But there is no monster more terrifying than the human being who lacks compassion.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“Goddamn, Wren, you were my heart, pumping life into a body that was mostly dead. You were everything to me. You are everything.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“I saw things no child should ever see. Experienced the most horrible things.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“The little girl who would curl into herself, cursing and shaming her body, is no longer here. In her place is a woman. One who’s seen the darker side of man. Who’s felt the raw brutality of the world. One who can bathe in the aftermath of her sins.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“I didn’t realize how ruined I am, how little I received from the affections of other men. No one else has ever touched my soul this way, stolen a piece of me.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“Because you’re not like the other girls. You’re wild. And hard. Unbreakable.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“Learn to be indifferent to pain, and you’ll become invincible.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“The world has no place for heroes anymore.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling

“Papa told me Mrs. Sanders passed away. The older woman was ill for many years, a regular patient of Papa’s who often stopped in for some of his herbal teas. Yet, I felt nothing and silently chided my coldness.”
― Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling