Before the Broken Star Quotes

“Don’t be so distracted with what keeps you alive that you neglect to live.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Everley, this hunger for vengeance will rot you. Could you do it? Could you become a monster to destroy one?”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“I believe in monsters. I have seen them take and destroy, suffocate and shred, every sliver of light in the world.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Could you become a monster to destroy one?”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Girls with clock hearts aren’t made for falling in love.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“In the beginning, there was no time, and no man or beast walked the world. Where the ocean met the land, an ivory mare was born, her mane crafted from sea-foam and her body from barnacles. She was the Creator, goddess of all conception and supreme ruler of seven worlds. The Creator planted the seed of life in her most precious world, and a mighty elderwood tree grew to hold up the sky and nourish life. The elderwood bore creatures of all kinds—including giants from her bark, elves from her leaves, and mankind from her acorns. This elite triad of brothers and sisters dwelled in harmony, but the Creator knew peace was temporary. Avarice, wrath, and pride would set her children against each other, so she appointed a lesser god as guardian over them and commanded that he give every living thing a time to be born and a time to die. But this story isn’t about death. Not yet.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“No one anticipates the danger they do not see.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Quiet stretches, broken by my fervent pulse. I loathe that tick even as I rely on it for my next breath.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Don’t tell anyone you spoke with me or that I’m your blood, or I will gut you.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Some days push us ahead into better times, while others pull us back so far nothing can reverse the damage. Those are the days that redefine our future for the worst. Those are the days where I despise time the most.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Time pretends it’s constant, but it stretches and snaps at will.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Nothing can stall fate. Time advances at the same reliable beat, yet it can pass in intervals of horrifying slowness and dizzying fastness that will not pause for anyone. Eternity trapped in a second.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Sweet words from poisonous lips.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Be calm. Be machine. Be indifferent, like time.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Let me stay. Spare me to live another day. The nothingness opens its jaws—Tick . . . . . . tock.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star

“Chase him, my fury urges.”
― Emily R. King, Before the Broken Star