The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5 Quotes

“This was peace. This was everything right and beautiful and good. The music swelled through the room, deep and sonorous and lilting. It was a song full of hope and dreams and love and every good thing that inspired people to feel, that made them human. It was a song to break the world. It was a song to remake it again.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“And I’ll let you in on a little secret. Crying doesn’t mean you aren’t strong. Tears aren’t weak. Emotions aren’t weak. They’re part of what makes us who we are. We can be happy and brave and strong, but we can also be sad and worried and scared. So don’t wipe your tears away, okay?”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“There was no time for tears while the world fell to pieces all around you. The only thing left to do was survive. And surviving, at least, she was good at.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“As long as you can still find beauty, you know you’ll be all right,” he said. “That’s what hope is.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“Whatever sets us above even the most intelligent animals. Our ability to love, to be just, to be merciful, to forgive, to dream. To believe in something greater and better than ourselves. To hope.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“There’s a Leonard Cohen poem,” Micah said. “‘There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“Losing a person you loved meant you lost a chunk of your heart, raw and pulsing and elemental. You weren’t yourself after. You had to learn to live without that person, like learning to live without a limb. But you also had to learn to live within your own skin again. You were the same and not the same.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“She’d fought too hard, lost too much to go back. Her father’s approval no longer determined her worth. Only she decided that.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“fear.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“It’s love that gives us strength, courage, and hope. It’s love that’s going to get us through this.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“An eye for an eye, and the world goes blind.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“his sense of purpose was stronger than his fear.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“Death wasn’t the worst thing. He refused to let anyone take his soul from him. If he died, he would die by his own terms.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“If I had to kill an innocent person or steal the last bit of food someone else needed to survive in order for me to live, I wouldn’t do it.” “You would rather die?” “I would rather die with honor than live as a coward. If the cost is my soul, my humanity, then it’s too high. I refuse to pay it.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“We can’t just fight against the bad. We have to fight for the good.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“Her own fear was her greatest threat, her greatest weakness. Her fear made her forget. She was a survivor.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“Every day, she grew in strength and skill and prowess. With every fading bruise, her body grew harder, more resilient. She could take a punch in the face and bounce back up again, spitting blood and ready to return the favor. She was still short and chubby; still plain, invisible Willow. But she was tough. She could fight. She could shoot. She could kill a man if she had to. And that made all the difference.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“We aren’t responsible for the sins of others. Don’t ever forget that.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“Hope is a thing with feathers.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“Sometimes good people had to do things they weren’t proud of to protect the people they loved.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“This was a tough world, so she just had to be tougher.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“Losing a person you loved meant you lost a chunk of your heart, raw and pulsing and elemental. You weren’t yourself after. You had to learn to live without that person, like learning to live without a limb. But you also had to learn to live within your own skin again. You were the same and not the same. You were less, somehow. Diminished. Colors weren’t as bright. The sun wasn’t as warm. Everything was dulled, dimmed, lessened. But it wasn’t the world that changed. It was you.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series