Emberstorm Quotes

“This isn’t the end. It’s only a bad memory waiting to be forgotten.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm

“You can be scared. We all are. The trick is to not let that fear take you over. Let it simmer, let it wrap itself around you to keep you alert, but don’t let it become you.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm

“I’m not going to tell you to wear a mask to hide your sadness just because my own mask is on the edge of shattering.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm

“So much of what we hear about forgiveness is wrong. It’s no virtue, and it’s a forced lie unless it happens naturally. We pretend to forgive, trick ourselves into it, because we’re expected to by people who don’t want to be made uncomfortable, not to relieve our own pain. It’s so one-sided, so dismissive, so quick to call a lack of forgiveness some sort of failing by the person who was wronged.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm

“Sometimes we all lose our way, but we aren’t the path. We’re the destination.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm

“My memories keep crashing into me, sneaker waves drowning the present.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm

“I don’t know why she never believes me when I call her beautiful. Maybe for the same reason I never believe her when she calls me the same. We’re so used to being outside the normal that it’s difficult to see ourselves as anything other than bitterly-remembered insults. It may take a lifetime of calling each other beautiful before we acknowledge that we truly are.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm