The Night Burns Bright Quotes

“Lucien was beginning to see that people, even adults, could be more than just themselves, that their words and feelings could depend on where and when they appeared.”
― Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

“untouchable and unknowable until the moment they were amassed, and any reality,”
― Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

“This was one of his favorite aspects of books: how these little black squiggles could create so much behind his eyes.”
― Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

“But he couldn't think of it that way. Evie and Samantha weren't dead. They were just somewhere else. Somewhere he couldn't go. What was the difference between that and death?”
― Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

“[...] believe it or not [...] sometimes we think we are the weakest people, the most alone, the most crushed, but we aren’t. We never are.”
― Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

“On one hand, it’s empty, vacant, nothing—on the other, well, it’s like staring into the sun. I’m blinded. There’s so much, and I’m just bent over and crouching there, in the light.”
― Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

“We keep the memory, but the memory isn’t only us. We aren’t just an accumulation of bad memories.”
― Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

“these adults, they’re as messed up as we are. They’re just older.”
― Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

“Lucien, you’re great and all, really, don’t change, but you gotta understand—these adults, they’re as messed up as we are. They’re just older.”
― Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

“It was bound to the passage of time, to the looming realization that there were moments in his life that could not be reclaimed, that were imprisoned solely in memory. He would not relive them.”
― Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright