The Darkening Quotes

“It's always worth being the enemy of a diseased state.”
― Sunya Mara, The Darkening

“If nightmares had music, they'd sound like the Storm.”
― Sunya Mara, The Darkening

“It wasn't bravery, my dear. Nothing of the sort.'
'What, then?'
'Fury.”
― Sunya Mara, The Darkening

“Blood isn't a leash, love. Your choice is yours.”
― Sunya Mara, The Darkening

“But love is such an insignificant word for the potential that purrs within me, an ability to accept and to give and forgive; a transformative power to turn villains into penitents, sufferers into the healed, the abandoned into family. "pg. 276”
― Sunya Mara, The Darkening

“It takes something from you. Something you can never get back. Not the magic itself, but the power. To affect the world with a word? With just a symbol? It makes men greedy. They begin to think they can rewrite fate. That they can hold the very sun in their hands." Pg29”
― Sunya Mara, The Darkening

“To do the one good thing that I must do, I find myself caught in a thousand small evils."
I squeeze his hand until he looks at me. "I hope that one thing is worth it."
"It is the only thing that matters.”
― Sunya Mara, The Darkening

“What Pa did doesn't represent all of who he is. There's a bigger picture. Amma said something to me once, when I found a drawing someone had done of her when she was a teenager: In life we wear a hundred faces - the bawling infant, the happy child, the starry-eyed youth. Each face belongs to a different life.

I didn't fully understand it then. But maybe I do now. A lifetime is made up of dozens of lives, tied together only by shared memory. Who I was when I was a baby isn't the same person I was at age ten, much less who I am now. Who Pa was in his twenties isn't the same man he is today. And I have to believe that the man he is today shouldn't have to die for the mistakes of the other man who wore his face twelve years ago.”
― Sunya Mara, The Darkening

“Dalca's not my North Star. He doesn't give my life meaning. But I won't loose him." - pg308”
― Sunya Mara, The Darkening