In the Dark Quotes

“Because we all lie. Every one of us, and whoever claims they don’t is the biggest liar of all.”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“The pain, the sense of loss, of fear—it would hit out of nowhere. She’d learned this. She’d also learned to accept it, and to bow under it, give in to it, because the harder she tried to shove it away, the harder it hit next time around, and it would be all the more debilitating”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“Stella, Nathan, and Steven looked at each other in the beams of their headlamps, which they’d clicked on as the twilight thickened. The wind moved the trees again. Darkness was growing complete. The rain was turning to sleet. Despite the sweat over her body, Stella’s hands were numb with cold, and her fingers were growing uncooperative. A recipe for hypothermia.”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“Pain and loneliness washed over her. It would come like this, out of nowhere, at the most unexpected times, prompted by some small thing. Or it would rise like a flood from her belly”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“only those who have risked going out too far can possibly learn just how far one can actually go?”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“Mason’s attention shifted to the group of volunteers standing in the rain. The oldest person on the team looked to be in his late fifties, maybe even early sixties. The youngest was a woman around nineteen. Rugged mountain people. Mason had worked all his life with tough, gritty sorts, but this was a different kind of tough. These were folk you’d want on your side if you got lost, or if you needed assistance far away from any trappings of civilization. People who relied on themselves, and not technology.”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“That the end is where one starts, and only those who have risked going out too far can possibly learn just how far one can actually go?”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“And down there I saw the Monster, and the Monster looked back into my eyes, and I saw that the Monster was me.”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“step”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“Forgiveness is really about freeing yourself from the hate and self-pity, which eats like a cancer into your brain day and night, year after year.”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“No. Not really. I haven’t been okay for a long time, and I don’t think I realized the extent of the toll this is taking on me.”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“Who knew grief could be so goddamned physical, a dark and sly trickster that blindsided you when you weren’t even thinking about loss, and suddenly you couldn’t get it out of your mind again.”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“You do not need to be defined by the darkness of your past. You deserve a good life, just like everyone deserves a good life. You have atoned. You have a right to feel worthy.”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“boot in front of the other and find myself in front of the stairs. “She was brought in yesterday. A hunter called in that he’d found her in a makeshift shelter he uses. Not far from the bottom of the rapids where you say she fell into the river. She made it there . . . Being stabilized and awaiting transport to a bigger medical facility. We’re hoping she pulls through.” I climb the stairs, push open the door. It’s an average, small health care facility. Inside I see an admitting desk behind a glass screen. A waiting area.”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“Who knew grief could be so goddamned physical, a dark and sly trickster that blindsided you when you weren’t even thinking about loss,”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark

“I’d like to go over again, in detail, what happened after the group left the lodge.” Another memory flash. The sound of gunshots. A body swinging by the neck. Screams—such terrible screams . . .”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Dark