The Luminous Dead Quotes

“That was the look of somebody resigned to being the monster they knew they were.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Luminous Dead

“Time to climb back up,” she said, and began walking. Em blinked. Frowned. “What?” “Climbing up. To the surface?” “That’s not what you said.” Gyre stopped, listening to the water sliding from her suit, pattering against the shallow pool she stood in. “Of course it is. What else would I have said?” “You said time to climb back down.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Luminous Dead

“half of any success was luck. She’d always believed that. It scared a lot of people, and sometimes it made her angry, because of course she wanted to control her fate. But it was true.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Luminous Dead

“They both had two options: fester and die, or take what they were given and grow.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Luminous Dead

“Even if she couldn’t think of a single thing she desired, she knew what she didn’t want. She didn’t want to be alone. She didn’t want to be dead. She didn’t want to be lost and forgotten.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Luminous Dead