Midnight Blue Quotes

“When I look at you, I see something broken that isn’t worth fixing. And you look at me like I’m a cheap thing to replace the expensive one that’s been stolen from you. See, we’re all vases. And you’re the one scattered on the floor, shattered beyond repair. So I’ll let someone else pick you up. It’s really that simple. Have fun with your temporary glue.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Life is full of secrets, and narrow-minded people, and sugar-coated, empty conversations that hold no weight. What’s real is what’s inside us. What’s important is what we feel.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“That’s the thing about broken princes. Not all of them have to die. If their soul is whole, they sometimes survive. Sometimes, they even grow up to be kings. Mine did.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Know what the difference is between you and me, Stardust? You watch me, but I see you. And what I see is your truth.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“In my mind, we were two asteroids orbiting around each other. I thought I was the sun and you were earth, but now I see I got it all mixed up. You were always the sun. And even now, when I look at you, I don’t see regret and pain and suffering. I see the biggest opportunity, the sweetest promise, the road I should be taking.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Once upon a time, a mere mortal fell in love with a rock god. You probably know this is not a fairy tale by now. Mortals and gods don’t mix.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Angel’s Game.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“So you took a match. Lit us up. And now we burn forever.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Finding happiness as an intelligent person was like finding a real-life unicorn.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Money is also the beginning of the end to art, the kiss of death to creativity, and the cancer to integrity.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Welcome to Random Acts of Meanness. It’s just like kindness, but for cunts.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“I don’t want your yesterday. And would never expect your tomorrow. But if we can have today, I will show you what love tastes like. And maybe, just maybe, we’ll forget about all our sorrows.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Alex Winslow was both an addict and an addiction. Pure and wild.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“There’s strength in choosing kindness even when you’re being dragged into the well of malice. I’d”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Feeling wanted and desired was addictive, and he doped me. If you want to put a spell on someone, make them feel special.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Got us another ugly decoration for the bathroom. Can I come back now? I'd really like to save the therapy money for when our kid finds out I was at the Grammys when she was born.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“She shrugged. “Lucas gave me his laptop until the end of the tour.” Red cloth. Angry bull. Clenched fists. Don’t kill Lucas. He’s not worth the jail time.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Flaws were intimate. Telling. Pure. Indigo was pretty. Like a wasted sunset, beautiful in a taken-for-granted sort of way.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“What do you want from me, Alex?” Everything. I want everything, and then all the things you’ve already given away to other people. I want them back, too.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Alex Winslow was beautiful in a way storms were—only from afar. Just like them, he had the power to sweep and ruin you, two things I was too busy surviving to entertain.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“If you want me to believe you about not wanting me to fuck you raw, you should probably stop looking at me like that. Like you’re already mine,”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Everyone can—and does—see my scars. No exceptions. My soul is empty, because I whored it out.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“If you leave me," he said, "you take my soul with you.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Indie; I think the ten-minute song is going to be really good.

Jenna: I hope you didn't tell him that.

Indie: No, I told him it's unmarketable.

Hudson: And what did he say?

Indie: He said I sounded like a Suit., specifically like Jenna Holden, and that Jenna Holden was hired to get him Balmain deals and negotiate fat deals with record labels, not produce his next album. He also said he'd once caught you nodding your head at a Maroon 5 song, and the fact that you're not dead to him after that is a miracle in itself, so you should not push your luck. Again, his words, not mine.>/b>”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Los Angeles was like a B-Grade prostitute. She let anyone in, looked less than average, and once inside, you realized there was too much traffic and that whoever’d been there before you had left a mess. Add to this the pollution and white-toothed starlets who wanted to ride your anything—be it your knob, reputation, or black American Express”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“I wished he didn’t look like an angry god and write like a tortured poet. It would have made hating him so much easier.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Still, I knew rehab was important. So I listened. I went to every class. I held hands with strangers. With suburban mummies who’d gotten addicted to prescription pills, and a preacher’s son who’d fallen into the arms of heroin, and a Russian oligarch’s daughter who, like me, had snorted pounds and pounds of cocaine to numb the feeling that the world was closing in on you from all angles. I wrote letters to my family and friends. Angry letters. Apologetic letters. Funny letters. Then I burned them all. I couldn’t write Stardust shite, though. Everything I had to say to her—every single groveling word—had to be said in person.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“I put her under my spell, to make sure she was mine. Scribbling onto her the notes only I could play. Now that Tania was gone, Stardust was my main instrument. And it saddened me, because I knew I had to break her, too.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Yesterday I lay with you in a bed of glass We broke together trying to survive your past Still, in your pain I found magic The beauty in something so raw and tragic When life feels banal and ordinary and beat Run to me, my blue-eyed girl, to the place where pleasure and pain meet”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“You look at me with dynamite in your eyes, waiting for me to light up the match and finally set you on fire.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue