Mother of Death & Dawn Quotes

“Do not fear death, my daughter. We all walk with one foot in each world. There is beauty in impermanence. And what sad lives we would live, if we never loved anything we would lose.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Death was like a lost lover. We circled each other. I craved more with every brush of its touch. All I wanted was for it to take me to its bed and never let me leave.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Once I’d thought that love was the sum of its parts, the result of a collection of traits and experiences, like a structure steadily built from bricks layered over bricks. If you collect enough of them, there is love. But that had been a child’s view of the world. The bricks were important, but what they created was more than just a pile of stones. It was the difference between a house and a home. If the building burns down, something is still there that makes it home.
If the memories are gone, something is still there that makes it love.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“I love you did not say enough. I love you did not say, thank you for being my home. I love you did not say, thank you for being my future.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“How much does a memory weigh?”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“A realization came to me, one that I had been grappling with for the last ten years. There was no single moment when everything changed. No single before and after. There was just… life. A million decisions and a million consequences.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“You are going to die. But do not fear death. Death is a door, and though none of us can follow you through it today, you will cross its threshold knowing that the mark you have left behind will be a worthy one. This is not an end.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“We all feel the same things, and we will still die trying to kill each other for it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“One hundred and eighty thousand days, and I thought of you in every one.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“It’s not all that hard to keep yourself sane, so long as you’re flexible with your definition of the term.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“When Max believes in something, he gives it his whole self. It’s his greatest strength and greatest weakness. And you, Tisaanah, were the first thing he had believed in for a long, long time. It takes more than four walls to break that kind of faith.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“I love your scars and hate the person who gave them to you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Words. Such infuriatingly clumsy tools to communicate such important things.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“She had experienced so much pain. But this love was the greatest torment of all.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Tell me, little butterfly, what would you do for love?”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“The past was jagged glass. But I was drunk on the way it tore me up.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“If you ever have to guess what I want, or what is best for me, it is you. Alright? I have made that decision already. I do not make it lightly. Don’t disrespect that by claiming that you know better for me than I do. I have made bad decisions before. But you are not, never have been, and never will be one of them. It is always you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Sometimes there was nothing to do but put one foot in front of the other.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Tears streaked his cheeks. I wiped them away with my thumb.
“I love you,” I whispered—because what else could I offer him? I could not erase his past. I could not take away his grief. But I could love him, no matter what, always. Was that enough?”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“That idiot was fighting this thing.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Your people have never been more in need of someone to believe in."
"The mere idea of that someone being me makes me a little ill."
"It may seem unkind to say this, Max, but the way it makes you feel is perhaps the least important thing right now."
A petulant part of me wanted to argue with her. But she gave me a deadpan stare that cut off my unspoken retort with, I escaped slavery, killed my master, forced a foreign country to take me seriously, traded away my autonomy, led a revolution, overthrew an empire, and then followed you back to your stupid broken country to support you only for you to whine about how you don’t “feel” like you can do this?”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“This, I realized, was love. Love was worth destroying for.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Self control made a soul tired, I was sick of it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“What makes you think, Maxantarius, that nightmares are not real? Perhaps it is all real, and that is the greatest nightmare of all.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“There was nothing so terrible as to be so alone.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“That us the bravest act in this world. To feel.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“That is the bravest act in this world. To feel. I am often too afraid to do it myself.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Even then, a part of me was afraid of death. I knew only want, and death is the end of wanting.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“His heart is what truly lit the fires of war, and the fire burns because of you. The decision was for all of us, yes. But the vengeance? The vengeance is for you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Where does one go to find forgotten things? The place where people go to be forgotten.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn